birdmanofgateshead: Nepal trip day 5-7

Day five we traveled by bus from Chitwan to Koshi camp with a few stops on the way, the weather was drizzle all day :( good job we were on the bus for most of it but iut was a bit of a pain when we stopped for lunch and a spot of birding. One of the stops we were looking for Gangetic dolphin, which we managed to get cracking views of :) we past threw countryside on the way to the Koshi camp, it was a good way to view how people lived in Nepal, once we arrived in the east you could see a change in the way people lived and looked, Indian people were the people that lived in the east with just a few Nepalese. we arrived at the Koshi camp around 4pm where we were greeted with drinks and food, the next few days were a mix of cloudy in the morning and sunshine in the afternoon, apart from the afternoon we went on a raft down the river where i tossed it down all the way :( as soon as we got back to the camp the sun came out! great place though with such birds in the camp as: siberian rubythroat, brown shrike,whites thrush, thick billed warbler, blyths warbler, barbets, babblers, owls, storks, crakes, raptors, flying foxes and a jackal :0 here are days 5-7 in photos.

New birds for trip
swamp francolin
bar-headed goose
gadwall
mallard
indian spot-billed duck
northern pintail
ferruginous duck
brown-capped pygmy woodpecker
streak-throated woodpecker
grey-headed woodpecker
lesser goldenback
blue-throated barbet
coppersmith barbet
asian koel
alpine swift
spotted owlet
short-eared owl
oriental turtle dove
red collared dove
orange-breasted green pigeon
ruddy-breasted crake
purple swamphen
yellow-wattled lapwing
indian courser
small pratincole
little tern
white-rumped vulture
short-toed snake eagle
hen harrier
shikra
himalayan buzzard
red-necked falcon
little grebe
great crested grebe
little cormorant
yellow bittern
black-headed ibis
black stork
brown shrike
southern grey shrike
black-winged cuckoo shrike
white-throated fantail
white-bellied drongo
bronzed drongo
greater racket-tailed drongo
common iora
common woodshrike
white's thrush
grey-winged blackbird
grey bushchat
asian pied starling
hill myna
blyth's reed warbler
thick-billed warbler
siberian chiffchaff
dusky warbler
smokey warbler
tickell's leaf warbler
whistler's warbler
ashy-crowned sparrow lark
great short-toed lark
sand lark
oriental skylark
richard's pipit
tawny pipit

Other wildlife
indian flyingfox
indian pipistrelle
asiatic golden jackal
indian grey mongoose
gangetic dolphin
sambar deer
wild water buffalo