Hi all,Big surprise this morning at the feet of Vinh Tuy Bridge with 2 Black Storks
feeding in the grasslands along the Red River (on the right in the photo above). At least one bird was an immature. I saw the second one only in fly, at great distance.
I spotted also many waders, at least 80-90 birds (and I scaned only half the place !), with 30-40 Temminck's Stints, 20+ Kentish Plovers, 2-3 Common Greenshanks (+ few Common and Green Sandpipers, many Little Ring Plovers). Probably the best spot for waders at Hanoi. But you have to bring your scope.
Sebastien
I spotted also many waders, at least 80-90 birds (and I scaned only half the place !), with 30-40 Temminck's Stints, 20+ Kentish Plovers, 2-3 Common Greenshanks (+ few Common and Green Sandpipers, many Little Ring Plovers). Probably the best spot for waders at Hanoi. But you have to bring your scope.Sebastien
Black Storks, awesome record, well done!
ReplyDeleteWill do RRI tomorrow but left my scope in Tam Dao :-(
Falk
Hi Falk,
ReplyDeleteToday, I saw some Chestnut-eared Buntings at the northern tip of RRI, if you are interesting, just behind the sandy dunes, in fallow-like vegetation with many dry stems of Asteraceae (sunflower), they were eating the achenes with other granivorous birds.
I will send some pics here tomorrow, for today it is enough I think.
Sebastien
On my way to the island my bike died and i had to push it around town - so fed up, of course chestnut-eared b would have been a lifer!
ReplyDeleteFalk
uii you are very unlucky. We are sure now that you have a Minsk ;) Those little buggers were still there this afternoon, I came back to try better shots. In fact, I did much worse... Impossible to approach them less than 20 meters. However, I added those crap pics on the blog because they offer an another angle of view, and correspond well to what we can see in the binoculars on the field.
ReplyDeleteSebastien
Great find Sebastian, part of the now very small population that winters in northern Vietnam. There are very few recent records, Jonathan Eames saw one on the Red River in Hanoi a long time ago...
ReplyDeleteSimon
Nope. Actually I saw 2 on a sandbar south of the Tang Long bridge.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information !
ReplyDeleteYou mean it was the island located at the west of the bridge ?
Cheers,
Sebastien