Up in the hill town of Munnar which is one of the centres of the tea trade and absolutely beautiful we looked for some of the hill birds on the first day around the town and found some real beauties. Black and Orange Flycatcher just beat the local Laughing Thrush and the Whistling Thrush on plumage but not on voice and the views of the Blue capped Rock Thrush were just too brief. Later in the afternoon we were treated to a definite Nilgri Flycatcher aswell as a Nilgiri Woodpigeon. The next day(today) we travelled over the Ghats to Chinnar and saw an impressive Brown Fish Owl as well as lots of Chats and Shrikes. All of these photos will have to wait until I can blow them up so I've just included a wild Grey Jungle Fowl and a Long tailed Shrike to whet your appetites.
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