Only a short trip due to outside time constraints, so I only made it as far as the first waterfall, but that still takes some time to get there! A good day for me, although I was hoping for monarch or verditer flycatcher, but mustnt grumble, it was still good. Birds of note included:
Red-flanked Bluetail - 1 f/imm (on the path of the rise just after the farm)
Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler - 1
Grey-backed Thrush - 2
Blue-winged Minla - 5 (max count, but seen in several spots)
Grey-throated Minivet - party of c.20, with Minla and Great tits
Grey-headed Flycatcher - 1 in a White eye bird wave
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2
Pallas' Leaf Warbler - 2
Two other robin-type birds seen in the gully/downward slope immediately before reaching the first waterfall but couldn't clearly see the sp.
Same is true of other Thrushes heard rustling in the undergrowth.
Also I think I may have seen a Red-billed Leiothrix with a Minla party flying across the valley? Is this likely for this spot?
Also heard, but not sure what it may have been was a bird calling a repetative (monotone) 5-note call, with another responding from across the valley - if anyone has an idea what it could be I'd like to know. I'm sure its common, I'm just not familiar with the call. I'm going to trawl through the books just now!
