It was September 13 when I last visited Doi Angkang before coming back to Japan. As I have said in earlier blog that it started raining again after the weather began to be sunny for quite a long while. I mainly walked around the same area where I did birdwatching a week before. The fruiting persimmon trees were still attracting all kinds of bulbul very well. I tried so hard on photographing my favorite Crested Finchbill and sort of failed as usual. There were Brown-breasted, Red-whiskered, Sooty-headed, Flavescent and Black Bulbuls around the area. A flock of White-browed Laughingthrush and Rusty-cheeked Scimitar-Babblers were also moving around in low bushes with their noisy calls. A new comer was the Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) which was feeding along with the resident White-tailed Leaf-Warbler (Phylloscopus davisoni) near the persimmon tree. However, I couldn't get any decent shot of it.
The best I could get from this unique Crested Finchbill
A Brown-breasted Bulbul visitting persimmon tree
And a record shot of the Arctic Warbler
I was surprised to see a small flock of Yellow-eyed Babbler consisting of mainly immature birds. I usually see this babbler in lowland cultivated area or wetlands, but not on high mountains like this. Another pale morph juvenile Oriental Honey-Buzzard of the season soared over my head with a much smaller juvenile Chinese Goshawk (Accipiter soloensis), which was trying to attack the honey-buzzard all the time.
The secretive Yellow-eyed Babbler
Last time I saw so many Brown Shrikes but this time only one juvenile bird was seen. However, two Grey-backed Shrikes (Lanius tephronotus) have arrived, so as the White Wagtails (Motacilla alba). At noon, rain started to fall too hard for birdwatching so I had to go back home. Along the way came a nice group of Ashy Woodswallows on the same dead tree. This time with the heavy rainfall, it looked more artistic than ever.
A pair of Ashy Woodswallows doing courtship display
A female Burmese Shrike from Ban Arunothai
The only Brown Shrike seen, a juvenile
Yesterday I went out walking around my house in early morning looking for some birds to photograph. It's been almost a year since last time I walked to the area. Behind my house is a piece of dry dipterocarp forest mixed with abandoned tamarind garden and cultivated area. Surprisingly I found 1 juvenile Burmese Shrike (Lanius collurioides) perching along with a Sooty-headed Bulbul. It's the first time here for this local and quite uncommon shrike of northern Thailand. The bird tends to have most of the adult features but but still possessing dark scales on its underparts and buffish scales on its crown and mantle. Whitish lores indicate that it's a female. Another newbie I've found was another Asian Barred-Owlet, which I guess is a 1st-year adult. The bird has quite a whitish face and very aggressive towards the first individual I've found. 
