Southwest line of a person's chapter of the Lijiang River Bird Watching
Prior to the trip, in addition to share of a very detailed "Southwest Bank Scheme" listed in this line should focus on some of the birds, such as in Fanjingshan's Tragopan pheasant, Lady Amherst's Pheasant, but also a careful study of "China's bird field manual", the Guangxi, Guizhou and Hunan provinces have the distribution of birds all find out, do a list of their appearance, sounds, habitat and other characteristics, in order to claim that time, according to Figure birds, the preparatory work is nothing less than fine-ah! Yan Lu JJ said after seeing an impressive list of, 195 kinds of birds can see a pretty good quarter, but I was for yourself to relax the requirement that the main objective of this trip is to Fanjingshan Red's Tragopan, if they can see it, it a worthwhile trip, be considered complete tasks.
April 13, on the long-distance sleeper cars bound for Guilin. In the car, I note that the window of the moving, along the way are nothing more than seeing some of the common species such as the Barn Swallow, White-headed Bulbul, White Wagtail and so on. The Zhangpu of a bridge, the car to open more slowly, the grass under the bridge is crawling in a Centropus sinensis is the way I see most clearly a bird.
The next day, on the 14th morning, entered the territory in Guangxi, looked out the window and saw the little bird felt less than in Fujian. Always want to see Brown-breasted Bulbul, because of Guangxi, said Lu Yan Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis Xiamen same as the local dominant species, the results in this way do not even have one westbound had not found that very strange.
To Yangshuo West Street, have not had time rest, eat breakfast, it was the end of the Li River Street side of a large bamboo forest and heard the birds singing in the trees come into view. Them to flee to the intersystem crossing branches, colors and backgrounds are very similar, is not easy to observe, finally, I judge to be very north Phylloscopus. In Yangshuo, Guilin along the Lijiang River on both sides of its bamboo forest where the largest number, can be seen everywhere.
In the West, a bar known for the world of Guilin rice noodle eaten on the ride went to xingping ready to walk in Lijiang. In xingping bridge the east coast, there are many Far North Warbler singing in unison, as if for my self-flagellation and bird-watching on foot refueling applaud it. The beginning section of the road on both sides of the mountains, the village from time to time heard birds sing, but birds are very difficult to see. There is a bird, sounds very sound, their voices are like a Magpie Robin, tall but not big, obviously in your front where this strain of bamboo, but I am surrounded by bamboo, convoluted, it is not running, just like you Play hide and seek, how it all meet again, and made me lose face. Finally, such birds to Longsheng, I was finally a clear picture, as it is the Han, hey, wait a Longsheng me tell you.
The reflection at the yellow cloth, and when I walk through the small village to the river bank and saw the three birds had never seen before: rust-colored head, back, chest, abdomen profile control is bright yellow, hurriedly pulled out a book, more than bricks and mortar will also focus on the "bird spectrum" Come on, one a check to identify it is the Li Wu, and I also passing breath, and snacked on foot, carrying such a large bag on foot, really good hard ah!
Embankment along the Lijiang River on foot, eyeful green, Spring endless, but one thing is not good, inconvenient bird-watching. To a river bank in low-Office, looked up bird-watching is really not easy, and secondly, walking through the narrow river bank, the rain had just stopped embankment surface quite slippery, and I do not want to step in because of bird-watching careless stumble Lijiang River ah ! had to stop-go, seriously affecting the foot speed, this rate went Yang Di, it is estimated, I will create a new record: the longest xingping to the Yang Di foot.
After a reflection of yellow cloth, in the riverside bamboo forest, one after another to see Red-billed Blue Magpie, Pond Heron, and Spotted Dove, etc., but they were kind of loud sounds like the Oriental Magpie Robin fooled by the small guy in the bamboo forest, turning Lao Bantian, or could not find it, gas me, Well, I do not see you do not workable?
At the cold-water crossing for the first time after the transition, reached the Lijiang River West Bank, nine horse drawn here is to see the best at the cold mountain village. Side of the bamboo inside the village and saw a red-headed Long-tailed Tit was feeding a chick, but surprisingly, it is feeding the baby birds, even head is white, the eye is black, Is red head length the end of the young tits are "white-headed Long-tailed"?
Carefully before stepping on a Treaty on rocks 10 meters wide creek, a stream of small woods and saw a bright colors and beautiful birds, the face blue-black, slender clear bridled pattern, chest the abdomen is a golden orange. The investigation maps, this is also not previously seen, brown-breasted Flycatcher Blue-hee of the males. It frightened after the jump from the mud branches, let me see more clearly, I think one is not enough, it is reluctant to leave it ah! Unfortunately, the opposite came a man and a woman and two donkeys, it ran scared, I had instead made with the donkey who Huan of the water.
Farewell donkey who continue to advance, I feel the sky was getting late, fearing Yang Di could not reach before dark, then I may have to sleep on a river bank. So do not dare slow to bird watching, and hurry to bear, and finally reached the Yang Di at 5:30, ending a six-hour walk and bird-watching xingping to the Yang Di-line. When I sat in the car to Guilin, whole body fatigue, I thought so after no more carrying a heavy pack on foot and bird-watching, and also hope to inspire the faithful to give a bird, that even in vain ah no sweat !
1 222 Apus affinis
2276 Spotted Dove
3351 Sandpiper
4535 Egret
5545 Pond Heron
6616 Long-tailed Shrike
7626 Red-billed Blue Magpie
8636 Magpie
9740 brown breasted Flycatcher Blue-hee
10773 Red-flanked Bush Robin
11778 Oriental Magpie Robin
12807 ash forest that is
13 862 Great Tit
14874 Red-headed Long-tailed Tit
15882 Barn Swallow
16884 Hirundo Yan
17898 White-headed Bulbul
18925 Japanese White-eye
19990 Far North Phylloscopus
201,198 (tree) Sparrow
211,207 White Wagtail
221,212 Gray Wagtail
231,218 tree pipit
241,246 goldfinch
251,312-eared Bunting
261,318 Chestnut Bunting
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2003/4/28
Author: zmuer
