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Argh - we foolishly went to the pre-breakfast patio viewing without cameras! How dumb is that. Light was just dawning, but still we saw the Bird of the Day: Red-billed Blue Magpie. A long blue tail, almost twice as long as its body, bright red bill, white chest and back of its black head, stunning in the morning light.
A close second: Greater Yellownape, with a long spiky wedge of yellow feathers down the back of its head, a yellow chin, black and brown bars on its wings. This bird comes to the windows of the restaurant and taps persistently at its reflection every morning! Apparently last year a female tapped so hard she broke off part of her bill.
The garden had a brillantly colored Green-tailed Sunbird and Orange-bellied Leafbird feasting on the bottlebush in the morning sun. Not too shabby either. Blue sky, cool, no clouds. We're joyous. After breakfast we walked along the forest and the riverbed seeing many different birds now that we are in a higher elevation, some that we saw in Bhutan. Flycatchers, redstarts, warblers, a Brown Dipper with juvenile, both bobbing up and down on rocks near the water.
The afternoon was much slower, the target birds (forktails, thrush) were MIA. Returning to the lodge, we managed to get hot water for the shower once realizing we had to turn on the hot water heater (labeled Geyser with the light switches). A quick shower, then a run in front of the space heater. Hopefully they will give us a hot water bottle in bed again tonight. That was so nice last night.
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