Sunday 16 Oct: Red River Island

A few hours on Sunday morning in our favourite Red River Island was lovely. As always at this time of year, plenty of birds around (and only 1 hunter today). The birds I identified were:

• Drongo, Black
• Drongo, Hair lipped
• Drongo, Ashy
• Bulbul-Red whiskered
• Flycatcher, Asian brown
• Flycatcher, dark sided
• Flycatcher, Grey headed canary
• Kestral, Common
• Minivet , Ashy
• Warbler, Grey crowned
• Warbler, Eastern crowned
• Warbler, Thick billed
• Warbler, Yellow browed

Wayne

Ashy minivet

Grey crowned warbler

Eastern crowned warbler

Red River Island / April 10th

A wander around the wooded area of the Red River Island produced the following : 1 Fujian Niltava female, 1 Ashy Minivet, 2 Yellow-rumped Flycatchers, 1 Hainan Blue Flycatcher, 1 Chinese/Hill Blue Flycatcher, at least 3 Black-naped Monarchs, 1 Black-capped Kingfisher, some Grey-headed Canary Flycatchers, lots of Yellow-browed & Eastern Crowned Warblers, and some "little brown jobs" skulking in the undergrowth, among them 1 Manchurian Bush Warbler identified with certainty. Sebastien

Grey-headed Canary Flycatchers

Although they're never the most interesting birds when you are out in the forest, I've not seen many Grey-headed Canary Flycatchers in Hanoi. However, today in an all too quick visit to the botanical gardens I saw three of this short range migrant.

There was also one Taiga Flycatcher (my first for over one week), plenty of y-brows calling and the good old Orange-headed Thrush was still hanging around.

Simon 15/10/10