From Flores I flew to Bali where the main area I wanted to check out was the highlands around Bedugul. The easiest site to visit was the Botanical Gardens there, an overly manicured National Trust style gardens, but surrounded by good quality mossy forests, with plenty of trails to explore.
New birds were plentiful, with Flame-fronted Barbet, Lesser Shortwing, Yellow-throated Hanging Parrot, Crescent-chested Babbler and Blood-breasted Flowerpecker, plus those photographed below being the stars.
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| Indonesian Honeyeater |
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| Javan Whistling Thrush |
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| Long-tailed Shrike |
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| Siberian Thrush |
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| Treeshrew? |
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| Sunda Warbler |
The south of the island, where most of the tourist infrastructure lies is a bit lacking in forest cover and coastal birding is the order of the day. A visit to the lagoons at Pulau Serangan was a bit of a distaster as I foolishly went on a weekend, when half of Bali and their families were there picnicing and fishing. This did mean though that I was able to slip past the check-point un-noticed in the crowds and take my camera onto the island, which is usually frowned upon.
Though I may have visited on the wrong day, I managed to time it right with the tide, and found a causeway with roosting waders and other bits and bobs flying low overhead as they were pushed off a lagoon by the rising tide
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| Assorted Sandplovers |
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| Sunda Teal |
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| Malaysian Plover |
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| Beach Thick-knee |
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| Gull-billed Tern |
I then took a bus to Gilimanuk at the far west of the island, the departure point for ferries to Java.
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