By the way Hol has pointed out that it is Batak for the people, batik is printing on cloth.
This is for you Ian, mind you I think you may be the only one to read this drivel. So the really good thing about the Village Inn is that it is close to the village, it sits on the waters edge and it is quite open making birding relatively easy. There's not many places you can enjoy a cold beer while watching Little Egret, Asian Glossy Starling and three species of Munia/Mannikin going to roost after a hard day fishing and working the fields. Mind you the first bird I saw was a Brahminy Kite the second was White-breasted Waterhen. We also went on a cultural tour and saw Black Eagle and a few other nice things, there will be a brief list at the end. Now for the fuzzy photos. By the way Hol has pointed out that it is Batak for the people, batik is printing on cloth. Apart from those mentioned we also saw Scaly-breasted,Black-headed and White-headed Munias, Purple Heron, Dark-throated and Black-naped Oriole,Sunda Brush Cuckoo, Thick-billed Green Pig, Blue-banded and Sork-billed Kingfisher, Maroon Woodpecker and possibly maybe Plume-toed Swiftlet but that maybe wishful thinking. There were also some old friends like the Golden-headed Cisticola, White-bellied Sea Eagle and Spotted Turtle Dove.
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Ian
11/14/2017 09:30:47 am
Love the blog, even if I am the only one of a select few reading it. Plume-toed swiftlet, what a name! I guess that means you had to have a good look at its toes as it barreled past. Talking about splits, and armchair ticks, I just found out that the common redpolls I saw out at Shotley, it must have been with you, were actually most likely to be Lesser redpolls, and I have only seen Common redpolls (with a capital C) in Germany. Quite confusing. Also there is currently an influx of arctic redpolls to our bit of Poland near Ostrava. Hopefully they hang around for Christmas so that I get a chance to see some. Keep blogging.
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Ian
11/14/2017 09:34:47 am
I forgot to mention that the chicken certainly does look like a female junglefowl to me.
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Tamsin
11/25/2017 12:38:30 pm
I also read! Mainly for the dog banter :)
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