Lenin Park-Hanoi : migration in full swing!

New sightings of migrants at Lenin Park during 3 visits : last Monday with John Parr & Family and Falk Wicker + 2 solo noon strolls on Tuesday/Wednesday. Most of the birds have been spotted in the area near the northern gate - a part, the best one, is outside the park (i.e. on the other side of the barrier) and accessible by Le Duân Street. In total, not more than 2 ha of birding playground mostly occupied by small trees, scrub and bushes.

- 1 White-shouldered Starling *
- 1 Spangled Drongo
- 1 Ashy Drongo (ssp mouhoti)
- 1 Wryneck
- 2 Siberian Stonechats
- 2 males Hainan Blue Flycatchers
- 1 Taiga Flycatcher
- 1 male Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
- 1 female Blue-and-White Flycatcher
- 1 Chinese/Hill Blue Flycatcher
- 1 Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher
- 2 Siberian Rubythroats
- 1 Manchurian Bush-warbler
- 1 Dusky Warbler
- 1 Seicercus Warbler
- 1 Blue Whistling Thrush
- 1 Chestnut Bunting
- 1 imm Pied Harrier headed north *
- 15 Black-crowned Night Herons *
- 1 Chestnut-winged Cuckoo *

* Patch tick (now ca 110 species spotted in the 2 main Hanoi’s parks)

John, Falk, did I forget anything ?

This stunning male Chestnut Bunting, not yet in breeding plumage, was foraging in low scrub


Manchurian Bush-warbler. Piles of dead branches are an excellent playground for this skulker. And the game it like best is hide-and-seek!

Male Hainan Blue Flycatcher with a strange throat/upper breast pattern (normaly, it is dark blue)

Taiga Flycatcher enjoying luxury perches

Wryneck

Siberian Rubythroat

Female Chinese/Hill Blue Flycatcher

Spangled Drongo

Blue Whistling Thrush of the black-billed migratory race caeruleus (a possible future split)

Chestnut-winged Cuckoo moving slowly from branch to branch high up in the tree canopy. A rare passage migrant in the Hanoi area - another sighting the 16-04-11 by Falk & Simon (Red river Island)


Black-crowned Night Herons (5 individuals on Monday, 15 on Tuesday) flying around Bẩy Mẫu Lake

Sébastien

Three more pics from me (Falk)

A well-camouflaged Scaly-breasted Munia,

A very showy Plaintive Cuckoo,

And one of those Flys - Chinese or Hill Blue?

Lenin Park, 9-10-2011

Hi all,

Apart from seeing a young guy having a walk with his approx. 2 year old Stump-tailed Macaque, it was actually quite nice to check Lenin Park on a busy Sunday.

5 Oriental Honey Buzzards and 3 Purple Herons were soaring overhead, as was a flock of Barn Swallows and an unidentified Riparia-species.

The corner near the circus held 1 Wryneck, 1 Asian Brown Flycatcher, 2 Brown Shrikes and 1 Siberian Stonechat.

Around the toilets there were 1 Forest Wagtail, 1 Dark-sided Flycatcher, 1 Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher and another Asian Brown Flycatcher, as well as one Ashy Drongo.

One Striated Heron flew across the lake.

Cheers,
Falk

Red River Island

2 Barred Buttonquails, 1 Wryneck, 3 Grey-headed Lapwings, 1 Asian Brown Flycatcher, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, several Common ringed Plovers (edit: probably Little RP), Olive-backed and probably Paddyfield Pipits, lots of Brown Shrikes, 1 Stonechat, Common, Pied and Black-capped Kingfishers, some Yellow Wagtails, 2 Black-shouldered Kites, 2 Plaintive Cuckoos, 2 Lesser Coucals, 2 Snipes sp, several Phylloscopus Warblers, seen by Christian and Florian

Red River Island

Early (actually too early, no need to go before 5:30 now) morning visit to the island, Simon and myself, Florian:

1 Wryneck, 4 Asian Brown Flycatcher, 2 female Yellow-rumped Fly, lots of Brown Shrike, 1 Green Sandpiper, a few Little Ringed Plovers, 1 Pacific Golden Plover, Pied, White-throated and Common Kingfisher, some Paddyfield Pipits, 2 Black-shoulderd Kite, a flushed Quail and Snipe Sp., 2 Black-collared Starlings whose calls gave me some Dalat feel, probably escapees but maybe not?, 1 green Lovebird-shaped thing, a small Accipiter Sp., 2 Phyllos warblers, a distant flock of flying pond herons with some darker grey birds that could have been night herons.