Two hours in Suan Rot Fai before work, with the highlight being when I raised by
binoculars to view a
Thick-billed Warbler and found a
Siberian
Rubythroat lurking just behind it before disappearing, never to be seen
again.
I also found this very well-marked
Arctic Warbler which was silent but
has me thinking it may be a good candidate for Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (
P. examinandus). Sadly it did not call, and didn't give an especially obvious response to
a sound recording of
P. examinandus but on plumage it immediately
looked like a very different kind of Arctic Warbler - very well marked
supercilium (much broader and brighter that the dowdy
P. borealis I'm
used to seeing) and the yellow suffusion around the face seems to favour
examinandus - but without the call or biometrics I'm just speculating.
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| P. examinandus??? |
In addition to this bird I had two
Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warblers, one of which
showed interest in and responded to my Sakhalin recording, a lone
Eastern Crowned Warbler and at least five
Yellow-browed Warblers. The
same area held an incessantly calling
Monarchidae but I was to busy with
the phylloscs to bother working out if it was an Asian Paradise Fly or
Black-naped Monarch.
I also encountered at least two
Ashy Minivets as well as four
Brown
Shrikes, lone
Black-naped Oriole and
leucogenis Ashy Drongo, and a
Blue-tailed Bee-eater.
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| a rather splendid male lucionensis Brown Shrike |
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| Black-capped Kingfisher |
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| Eastern Crowned Warbler |
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