A quiet week birding-wise. The farms are pretty wet, with all the rice harvested so lots of open, flooded paddies being prepared for the new rice crop. Not much on them bar the usual
Wood Sandpipers and
Little Ringed Plovers. The
Peregrine is still on station, and
Yellow and
Grey Wagtails are scattered throughout. There are plenty of
Intermediate and
Cattle Egrets and
Whiskered Terns hanging around the crews preparing the fields.
Juvenile
Grey Wagtail
Long-tailed Shrike. One bird on the lowland farms on Tuesday, an unusual occurrence.
Whiskered Tern
An extremely muddy Carabao
Up at IRRI staff housing on Tuesday a quick walkabout produced a good crop, with
Red-keeled and
Striped Flowerpeckers, Olive-backed and
Plain-throated Sunbirds, Philippine Woodpecker, White-throated Kingfisher, Grey-streaked Flycatcher and
Philippine Honey Buzzard high overhead.
Red-keeled Flowerpecker
Philippine Honey-Buzzard
White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon gularis, Another recent split from
White-breasted Kingfisher,
Halcyon smyrnensis.
Golden Birdwing
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