My third trip to Manila

As I contemplate how I might be able to develop a bird guiding business out here, I realise I have a mountain to climb just finding the birds, identifying calls and coping with the heat (about 90 degrees) and the humidity.
A fun and very challenging trip to La Mesa Eco Park at first light this morning, so I thought I'd make a new blog for my trips to the Philippines. Birding here is much harder than the UK, forest birds just hardly show and many only briefly, or not at all. For now I will post the best pictures I could grab with my iphone, perhaps sharing my experiences later on;

Barred Rail

Black-naped Oriole

Brown Shrike Adult

Brown Shrike Juvenile

Common Kingfisher

Yellow Vented Bulbul (goiavier)