Last week, I (Florian) birded in Hanoi at several occasions:
- Two morning visits to the Botanical Gardens
- A morning at the Red River around the northern tip of the island and in the small tree plantation at Bai Da (the wedding couples photo shooting place)
- This morning, together with Sebastien, at Red River, in the cultivations and along the channel between Hanoi and the Island, near the Sofitel
The most interesting first: this morning we had a rather plain
Acrocephalus at one of the small ponds between Hanoi and the Red River Island. For its short white supercilium and lack of a black supercilium, we concluded it must be a Blunt-winged Reed-Warbler
A. concinens. We would be happy for comments on this ID! (EDIT: ID still being discussed, but probably a Paddyfield Warbler, see discussion in comments below)
A thin black line above the supercilium can clearly be seen in this shot. And upper half of lower mandible appears to be blackish.
The Botanical Gardens had a lot of Phyllos Warblers giving me a hard time especially after a 2 years break of visting Vietnam. The ones I could more less confidently identify were: Yellow-browed, Arctic and Pale-legged. At the Red River there were in addtion one Sulphur-breasted and a few Eastern-crowned.
The hill at the Botanical Gardens was teeming with Grey-headed Canary Flycatchers, must have been at least 30 or so. Also interesting was a flock of Chestnut-flanked White-eyes. Quite a few Taiga Flycatcher were around, a single Asian Brown, a female Yellow-rumped and a nice male Blue-and-White Flycatcher at (there was also a male and female BW Fly at the Red River Island).
The little forest at Bai Da had a few Red-breasted Parrakeets, a Large Hawk Cuckoo (another one seen this morning as well) and several Black-naped Monarchs. The out of place song of a Mountain Tailorbird there irritated me quite a bit, but I found it and it really was one.
The northern tip of the Island rewarded me with nice views of the Black-shouldered Kites and a nice male Pied Harrier, always great to see those.
This morning with Sebastien was also quite good. Apart from the presumed Blunt-winged Reed-Warbler, there were several Black-browed Reed-Warblers about, lots of Critrine and Yellow Wagtails, the channel hat many Pond Herons in breeding plumage, a nice Black-capped Kingfisher, a White-browed Crake and a Moorhen, several Yellow Bitterns and a fly-by Crake, which we think was Ruddy-breasted, but we couldn't relocate it to get better views and confirm.
Once again, surprisingly good birding for a big city.
Below some pictures (apologies for not being up to the usual standard of quality for this blog, perhaps Sebastien will add some better ones later) and the full list.
Cheers, Florian
List:
Yellow Bittern
Grey Heron
Chinese Pond Heron
Black-shouldered Kite
Pied Harrier
White-breasted Waterhen
Ruddy-breasted Crake (probable)
White-browed Crake
Moorhen
Little Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Snipe sp.
Large Hawk Cuckoo, 2
Plaintive Cuckoo
Greater Coucal
Common Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Black-capped Kingfisher
Red-breasted Parrakeet
Swinhoe’s Minivet
Black-winged Cuckooshrike
Burmese Shrike
Ashy Drongo
White-throated Fantail
Black-naped Monarch
Barn Swallow
Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher
Japanese Tit
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Sooty-headed Bulbul
Mountain Tailorbird
Dusky Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
Eastern Crowned Leaf-Warbler
Sulphur-breasted Warbler
Paddyfield Warbler ? (see discussion in comments)
Zitting Cisticola
Common Tailorbird
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Plain Prinia
Chestnut-flanked White-eye
Japanese White-eye
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Oriental Magpie-Robin
Blue-and-white Flycatcher, 3
Taiga Flycatcher
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
female Cyornis Flycatcher
Mugimaki Flycatcher
Siberian Stonechat
Bluethroat
Blue Rock Thrush (roofs in Hanoi)
White’s Thrush
Eastern Yellow Wagtail
Citrine Wagtail
White Wagtail
Richard's Pipit
Olive-backed Pipit
Tree Sparrow
Scaly-breasted Munia
Source : vietnambirdnews[dot]blogspot[dot]com
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