Above - Chestnut Bunting.
Still on Happy Island. At last a brighter day with no rain at all. Cold dewy and calm like an October day but with more Sibes!
Highlights for the day were -
A walk around the raised bunds overlooking the flats -
Pacific Swift 2
Sharp tailed Sandpiper 1
Red necked Stint 45
Lesser Sandplover 13
Asian Dowitcher 26
Terek Sand 20
Kentish Plover 12
Marsh Sand 3
Great Knot 6
Black winged Stilt 4
Saunders Gull 10
Relict Gull 1
Rubythroat 1
Eye browed Thrush 5
After breakfast...
Dollarbird 2
Tristrams Bunting 1 (above)
Yellow throated Bunting 1 female
Brown Hawk Owl 1 flushed
Ashy Minivet 1 perched up
Grey streaked Flycatcher 1 (above)
Sooty Flycatcher 1
Mugimaki Flycatcher 10+
Taiga Flycatcher 4
Brown Flycatcher 3
Chestnut Bunting 3
Dusky Thrush 1
Then after lunch...
White throated Rock Thrush 2 males
Blue and White Flycatcher 1 male (above)
Yellow browed Bunting 1
Tristrams Bunting 3
Olive backed Pipit 12+
A flycatcher day today with 7 species...
