We stopped many times on this mountain road, and at both high and low elevations seeing a number of sought after Endemics, which included the two Pheasant species. Unfortunately the second half of the day proved to be very wet, but this actually resulted in a good density of species being seen. By the end of the day we were all shivering, so we called it a day. Our next two nights were spent in the Snow Mountain resort.
Km 4
TAIWAN HWAMEI - 1
Collared Finchbill - 4
Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker - 1
Created Serpent Eagle - 1
River crossing around 12km
Brown Dipper - 2
Rufous-faced Warbler - 5 (A.a. fulvifacies)
TAIWAN YUHINA - 10
Striated Heron - 2
Eyebrowed Thrush - 4
Green-backed Tit - 1 (P.m. insperatus)
STEERE'S LIOCICHLA - 2
Plumbeous Redstart - 4 (R.f. affinis)
Checkpoint
YELLOW TIT - 2
White's Thrush - 1
Black-throated Tit - 5
Km 23
SWINHOE'S PHEASANT - 8 incl. 1 male
Steere's Liocichla - 3
WHITE-WHISKERED LAUGHINGTHRUSH - 3
Vivid Niltava - 3
Around Km 40
MIKADO PHEASANT - 2
Km 48
TAIWAN FULVETTA - 3
Swinhoe's Pheasant
Mikado Pheasant around km 47
Harry feeding a wild Mikado Pheasant
Brown Dipper at km 12 (taken by Chris Glanfield)
celebrating seeing the Swinhoe's Pheasants with a drop of Whisky
