Bali Lockdown Birding - Garden List Hits 50!

There's been another shift in the winds recently in Bali along with several severe thunderstorms and I've had a few garden ticks in the last couple of weeks too (I'm in Ubud) - such as Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Pacific Swift, White-breasted Woodswallow, White-throated Needletail, Common Myna, and Javan Myna. 

Today, after a huge storm that lasted most of the night and all morning I got two ticks in two minutes once it stopped - firstly a flock of three Wood Sandpipers, followed by a single Grey Heron, happy days! 

Grey Heron actually took my garden list to 50 species! I've been here almost 7 months now. 

1. Olive-backed Sunbird
2. Yellow-vented Bulbul
3. Javan Pond Heron
4. Cave Swiftlet
5. Plaintive Cuckoo
6. Collared Kingfisher
7. Eastern Cattle Egret
8. Edible-nest Swiftlet
9. Zebra Dove
10. Spotted Dove
11. Javan Munia
12. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
13. Javan Kingfisher
14. Large-billed Crow
15. Striated Swallow
16. Chinese Sparrowhawk
17. Scaly-breasted Munia
18. Pacific Swallow
19. Intermediate Egret
20. Grey-cheeked Green Pigeon
21. Pied Bush Chat
22. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
23. Black-naped Fruit Dove
24. Black-crowned Night Heron
25. Savanna Nightjar
26. Olive-backed Tailorbird
27. Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)
28. White-headed Munia
29. Rusty-breasted Whistler
30. Asian Glossy Starling
31. Pink-necked Green Pigeon
32. Little Spiderhunter
33. Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker
34. House Swift
35. Common Iora
36. Java Sparrow
37. Sunda Scops Owl
38. Barn Swallow
39. Short-tailed Starling
40. Little Egret
41. White-throated Needletail
42. Brown-backed Needletail
43. Zitting Cisticola
44. Javan Myna
45. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
46. White-breasted Woodswallow
47. Pacific Swift
48. Common Myna
49. Wood Sandpiper
50. Grey Heron

Here are a few photos of some of the birds from the garden, my camera has been packed away for the most part so I've missed some very good photo ops.. such as the only time I've seen the Java Sparrow perched... about 10ft away from me at eye-level - DOH! Happy with the ones below though...

Javan Kingfisher

Grey-cheeked Green Pigeon

Pied Bush Chat

Scaly-breasted Munia

(Eastern) Spotted Dove

Yellow-vented Bulbul

Zebra Dove