Red River Island

Hi all,

today (2nd September) Red River Island produced some nice birds including the following:

8-10 Barred Buttonquails very well seen, 1 Blue-breasted Quail, 1 Accipiter sp., 1 Yellow Bittern, 1 Cinnamon Bittern, 16 Grey-headed Lapwings, 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, several Common Snipes, 1 Burmese Shrike, tens of Brown Shrikes, 1 Stonechat, 1 juvenile Lark (probably Oriental Sky), lots of Paddyfield Pipits and Yellow Wagtails, 1 Grey Wagtail.

Cheers,
Stephan Lauper, Florian Klingel, Falk Wicker

Tiger Shrike in Hanoi

One immature Tiger Shrike in the botanical gardens at lunch today (30/08/10).

Also one female Yellow-rumped Fly and a bunch of escaped nonsense (Red-billed Blue Magpie, Mesias, etc)

Simon Mahood and Falk Wicker

Red River Island 28 August 2010

Simon Mahood and Nicolas Wilkinson

An early morning trip in the pouring rain to the Red River Island proved worth the effort.
We saw:
Blue-breasted Quail 1 (Nicolas had 5 the previous weekend)
Quail sp. 1
Yellow-legged Buttonquail 1
Black Bittern 1
Black-winged Stilt 4
Green Sandpiper 10+
Wood Sandpiper 20+
Snipe spp. 150+ (Some Common, some probable Pintail)
Jack Snipe 2 (apparently the first record for East Tonkin)
Black-winged Kite 1
Burmese Shrike 1
Black-collared Starling 1 (escape)

Also 1 Dollarbird over Hanoi late the next day.