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<\/a><\/p>\nCitrine Wagtail – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n
Citrine Wagtail – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Yellow Wagtail of subspecies macronyx – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n White-naped Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Common Crane – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Swan Goose – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Greater Spotted Eagle – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Greater Spotted Eagle – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Greater Spotted Eagle – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier (female) – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier (female) – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Eastern Marsh Harrier (female) – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Red-crested Pochard – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Horses – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Brown-cheeked Rail – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Brown-cheeked Rail – Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Bayan Nuur<\/p>\n Dust storm on the way to Hustai<\/p>\n Roadside village<\/p>\n We arrived at Hustai National Park in the early evening and after paying the park entrance fee, plugged the coordinates for our digs at the research centre into the sat-nav and headed off. We followed dusty tracks through rolling brown hillsides and then the tracks pettered out and we drove onwards, offroad trustingly following the satnav.<\/p>\n A Woodcock was flushed a from roadside scrub as we drove but there were remarkably few birds. Barry and I gave a rolling commentary, 5km to go, 3km to go, 2.3km to go, it must be around the next hill, around the next hill still 2.3km to go, oh, so it must be around the next hill, we rounded the next hill and the satnav said 2.5km to go and then 3km. We had gone wrong and no sign of the accommodation.<\/p>\n We turned around to check we hadn\u2019t simply driven by but still no sign \u2013 not easy to miss a research centre on a barren hillside. Not only that but we had lost the other two vehicles and the support vehicle. We turned around and headed back in search of the other vehicles and too our relief found them after around 30 minutes of searching \u2013 the support vehicle having run out of fuel while one of the other vehicles having had a puncture.<\/p>\n After repairing tyres and filling up the support vehicle from a jerry-can we headed to a nearby Ger and the residents pointed us in the direction of the research station. It was getting dark and we had been searching for almost two hours, with a local on board we headed into the park through the dark and eventually arrived at some ramshackle huts \u2013 we were only 6km from the park entrance where we started and now 15km from the co-ordinates for the orginal research centre, still we were pleased to have found a roof and there were beds and we had vodka \u2013 all was good and today had been one of the best birding days of the trip.<\/p>\n Hustai is a pretty barren looking National Park<\/p>\n