So I started walking down the New Road with Stephen agreeing to pick me up later at 3 PM. I had not gotten far before I found this Bar-winged Flycatcher-Shrike.
And then this cool Yellow-bellied Warbler. I didn't ID it till I got back to the lodge. Photography really makes birding in new environment a lot easier. But it also makes us a lot less disciplined in our observation and note taking skills.
Sometimes even a photo doesn't help. This is some kind of a babbler but I don't know which.
And this is one of the Blue Flycatchers. I called it Hill Blue Flycatcher but I may be wrong.
I had seen Dark-necked Tailorbird previously in Borneo.
And then I head heavy wing beats and weird squawks. A flock of Wreathed Hornbills flew over.
Raptors were proving hard to come by so I was happy to see this big Black Eagle.
More little guys included this Verditer Flycatcher.
And lots of Mountain Fulvettas.
Streak-throated Bulbul was another one I had to look up later.
A young barbet had to go unidentified.
I knew this one was a Brown Barbet when I saw it but now the Malaysian species has been changed to Sooty Barbet. The one I had seen before in Borneo remains Brown Barbet. So this one proved to be a new species for me.
I was getting tired and it was getting hot when Stephen picked me up at 3PM near the bottom of the road. As we drove back up the Gap Road, we got behind a tourist from Kualalumpur who was driving exteremly slowly. Stephen explained that because they are used to driving on straight flat roads, they get terrified when driving the steep winding one way road up the mountain.
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