Tuesday 25th May
1982: Kyangjin and hill opposite (7
miles)
After a long wait for breakfast I headed down to Nick’s female White-bellied
Redstart site and soon saw it. Buoyed by
this success I decided to try for Dave’s Snow Partridges too and headed into
the forest opposite Kyangjin where I saw 4 Blood Pheasants before climbing high
onto the hills above. Here I searched in
vain for Snow Partridges for several hours without success. Either Dave had sdone a very successful job
of scaring them all off, or he’d given me duff directions (or I’d
misinterpreted them) or I was too late in the day. By the end I’d’ve been quite happy to have
seen just one or two but it was not to be.
On the way back I saw a superb Long-tailed Mountain Thrush singing a
very quiet mournful song which was some consolation. I got back to the lodge at 15:30 feeling
really tired and hungry and didn’t go out again. James Wolstencroft had caught up with us
again which was good value. He had a
short-wave radio - not much happening in South Atlantic much to Nick’s relief
(as his brother was there).
Birds
seen: Lammergeyer 1, Sparrowhawk 1,
Blood Pheasant 4, Ibisbill 2, Snow Pigeon 1, Cuckoo 1, Olive-backed Pipit 10,
Rosy Pipit 15, Wren 2, Rufous-breasted Accentor 15, Red-flanked Bluetail 1,
Golden Bush Robin 2, Blue-fronted Redstart 8, *White-bellied Redstart 1 female,
River Chat 4, Blue Whistling Thrush 2, Long-tailed Mountain Thrush 1
singing, Greenish Warbler 2, Orange-barred Leaf Warbler 2, Tickell’s Warbler 4,
Variegated Laughingthrush 1, Coal Tit 1, Alpine Chough 6, Chough 4,
Large-billed Crow 2.
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| view west from Kyangjin |
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| flowers opposite Kyangjin |
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| Blood Pheasant opposite Kyangjin |
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| climbing above Kyangjin |
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| looking down on Kyangjin village and across to Kyangjin glacier |
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| Langtang Lirjung from opposite Kyangjin |
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| looking north to the head of the Langtang Valley |
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