| ASIA: We will post our recent pictures here first. Look for series showing bird behavior. (Please email us with any corrections and name changes - we appreciate it!) |
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| 4/28+29/2012 We flew into Chengdu, China. After checking out the Bamboo Gardens and Giant Panda Breeding Center (see Panda and scenery pics under "ASIA - tourist pages"), we met up with Tang Jun of chinatibettravel.net who took us into the mountains for a wonderful trip searching for pheasants/partridges/snowcocks etc.... We saw an amazing array of birds with a big thanks to Tang Jun whose hearing and eyesight was far beyond ours - THANKS, Tang Jun! |
| 4/28/2012 Second, some birds from Chengdu: a Common Kingfisher with a catch, a White-browed Laughing Thrush flock showed up, an Oriental Magpie Robin , a Little Grebe pair was making a nest , a Eurasian Tree Sparrow (quite a few), a Black-throated Tit pair was constructing a nest high in the pines, a Black Swan with young, and 2 Black-crowned Night Heron fledglings in a high bamboo nest. |
| 4/28+29/2012 First, some of the high altitude birds of which we were able to catch images: The Tibetan Snowcock we came across were very obliging with the Snow Partridge a close second. Both were beautiful birds! The Chinese Monel were seen in the early dawn along the hillside. While the camera couldn't capture the male's brilliant blue, the bins sure could. (We also saw two White-eared Pheasants and a Koklass Pheasant.) Also shown: a warbler to be determined, a Rosy Pipit , a female Golden Pheasant (We DID see a distant male which was simple gorgeous!), a Plain Mountain Finch (wire), a Blue-fronted Redstart , and an Alpine Accentor study. |
