Common Moorhen

Scientific name - Gallinula chloropus

Habitat - Common in wetlands with open water with fringing emergent vegetation like marshes and ponds.

Richard's Pipit

Scientific name - Anthus novaeseelandiae

Habitat - Stays on the ground in open country, grasslands, ricefields and parks.

Common Redshank

Scientific name - Tringa totanus

Habitat - Common, coastal to rice fields.

White-Breasted Waterhen

Scientific name - Amaurornis phoenicurus
Habitat - Common in wetter areas - grasslands, marshes and mangroves.

White-Breasted Waterhen

Scientific name - Amaurornis phoenicurus
Habitat - Common in wetter areas - grasslands, marshes and mangroves.

Bright-Capped Cisticola
(Breeding male)

Scientific name - Cisticola exilis

Habitat - Common in drier grasslands and ricefields.

Bright-Capped Cisticola
(Breeding male)

Scientific name - Cisticola exilis

Habitat - Common in drier grasslands and ricefields.

Bright-Capped Cisticola
(Breeding male)

Scientific name - Cisticola exilis

Habitat - Common in drier grasslands and ricefields.

Bright-Capped Cisticola

Scientific name - Cisticola exilis

Habitat - Common in drier grasslands and ricefields.

Bright-Capped Cisticola

Scientific name - Cisticola exilis

Habitat - Common in drier grasslands and ricefields.

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

This is the western seaboard of Macabebe, Pampanga. In the distance loom the mountains of Bataan peninsula.
This mangrove area is teeming with birds and I suspect that only a few birders have reached this remote place.

Unfortunately, we came in at high tide and we were not able to enter the mangroves and photograph the birds.
We just settled for a natural avian concert, listening to the wonderful tunes belted out by the birds.

It is ironic that I heard about this place from wild bird hunters...:-(

We trekked over 8 km of mud trails to reach the western shore of Macabebe (we're going back in this pic).
No other vehicle dared to negotiate the trail on this day, as it rained the night before and the mud was unforgiving.

We bogged down several times, but the reliable albeit unflashy Kia 4x4 did its job, and brought us there and back in one piece...8-)