Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Nagarkot, Nepal - Part II

More from our 1-day trip to Nagarkot - 2 hours East of Kathmandu.
Verditer Flycatchers were common - and stunning:

The real reason we were there was to see the mountains - it's the off season now because clouds usually obstruct views of the distant mountains, but we were lucky to have 1 hour of clear weather:




Gray Bushchat - juvenile

Siberian Stonechat - apparently this is the local breeding species (stonechats have been undergoing all sorts of splitting well beyond my comprehension so I had to rely on Ding Li Yong on the ID of this one)

Gray Bushchat - female:

Streaked Laughingthrush: