Imperial Mountain Pigeon flew overhead. A flock of Thick-billed Pigeons were roosting in a tree and a Japanese Sparrowhawk, newly arrived from colder grounds, flew in to perch on a branch. Walking towards the beginning of trail 6, Stripe-throated Bulbul and Lesser Coucal came in view. Small Fire-breasted Flowerpeckers kept dashing around and a flock of noisy Pied Hornbills added to our list. Darkness fell as soon as we stepped inside of the muddy and slippery trail .
Birds are harder to see here and binoculars get used a lot less.
This is however where the real feeling of anything can show up sets in. Unfortunately being Sunday morning a noisy bunch of students had decided to take the same route and so evidently we were somewhat hampered by their presence. The most exciting bird we saw in here was a Buffy Fish-Owl who considering its great size does a great job of finding its way through the many trees . Golden-spectacled Warbler also was noteworthy. We did see something large and grey run across the trail but didn t dare to tick off the Ground Coucal as we didn t have good looks.