The day started well from
the hotel roof with a smart male Peregrine hunting from a nearby tower (a dark peregrintor type) and 3 Goosanders
flying upstream new for the trip but the highlight was an adult PALLAS’S FISH EAGLE which flew upstream early morning.
We
then spent all day walking up the Kosi River from opposite our hotel with some
obvious highlights as we connected with several of our trip targets first, an
awesome WALLCREEPER
found feeding along the river just upstream – it was just foraging in amongst the
big boulders in the stream bed, I wasn’t really expecting that way of feeding
and then 3Km upstream at the busy temple we had excellent views of 2 IBISBILL
feeding along the stream, foraging like fancy Curlews!
Other
new birds along the river included a female Black-throated
Thrush just
as we got to the riverbed, a cracking near-adult GREY-HEADED FISH EAGLE which flew downstream, perched up giving good views
before heading off downstream again, a little group of odd BAR-WINGED FLYCATCHER SHRIKES and a brilliant COLLARED FALCONET which
flew in to land briefly just as we got back to the hotel – another one of the
trip targets.
The
river itself was full of birds with four species of Kingfisher – Crested,
Common, White-throated and Pied, hundreds of Little, Great and Cattle Egrets,
Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plovers and Greenshank,
River and Red-wattled Lapwings, lots of White-capped and Plumbeous Water
Redstarts, Blue Rock Thrush, Brown Chat, loads of Wagtails - Citrine, Masked,
White-browed and Grey, hundreds of Little Cormorants, Long-tailed and
Grey-backed Shrikes, plenty of Black Kites and decent flocks of Red-rumped
Swallows, Brown-throated Martins and Dusky Crag Martins.
Ibisbill
Pallas's Fish Eagle
Wallcreeper
Red-wattled Lapwing
Crested Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Black Kites - govinder and lineatus
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