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| Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus |
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| Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus |
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| Red Turtle Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica (male on left, female on right) |
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| Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus |
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| Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps |
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| White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus |
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| White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus |
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| Chinese Sparrowhawk Accipiter soloensis |
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| Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta |
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| Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla |
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| Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla |
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| Varied Tit Sittiparus varius |
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| Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis |
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| Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus confusus |
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| Siberian Weasel Mustela sibirica |
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| Road to 2-gu |
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| Turdus Trail was turdless |
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| Getting a ride back from 2-gu in a cop car |
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| What luck! |
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| I think I just ate dinosaurs |
-Foggy and/or hazy for most of the day – great for photography!
-Several flights of 2-3 Chinese Sparrowhawks were seen working their way north through the hills.
-Seemed to be a big increase in Chinese Pond Herons – at least a dozen were seen, conservatively.
-Six Black Wood Pigeons were seen and/or heard on the road to 2-gu – two of them almost took my head off by the power plant.
-The male Red Turtle Dove was joined by a female.
-Someone's banded domestic pigeon was hanging around the dump.
-A White-throated Needletail was slicing through the murk above 2-gu.
-A Richard’s Pipit dwarfed the Eastern Yellow Wagtails in the dump. So big and chonky!
-Three Styan’s Grasshopper Warblers were heard on the road to 2-gu.
-A dozen Long-tailed Tits flitted across the road to 2-gu at the halfway tree in the morning pea soup. I can’t recall having seen them before on Gageo.
-Several Chestnut Buntings were seen in 2-gu.
-A lone Brambling was in a flock of a dozen Chinese Grosbeak above town.
-A Tree Sparrow in the main harbour.
-Two Black-naped Orioles meowing near 2-gu.
-One Black Drongo was seen above the power plant, and another, or perhaps the same one was observed for a long time in the dump. It defended its heap of bug-rich fishing offal from both Common Sandpipers and Eastern Yellow Wagtails. Quite a feisty and charismatic species.
-Light-vented Bulbls are everywhere (recent colonizers that feel fully established).
-51 species on the day.
-Got a ride in a cop car, and ate dinner with 20 cops. The head police officer is a nice guy, and something of a keen birder.
-Felt a little wobbly heading up the pass at dawn, but my legs are gradually turning into Gageo superlegs.
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