Managed to see a viper up close (too close) down in Jingmai mountain.

Birds I've seen at Yunnan University (the old campus)

Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
Eastern Buzzard - Buteo japonicus
Black-headed Gull - Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Spotted Dove - Streptopelia chinensis
Himalayan Owl - Strix nivicolum
House Swift - Apus nipalensis
Black-capped Kingfisher - Halcyon pileata
Brown Shrike - Lanius cristatus
Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach
Ashy Drongo - Dicrurus leucophaeus
White-throated Fantail - Rhipidura albicollis
Azure-winged Magpie - Cyanopica cyanus
Eurasian Magpie - Pica pica
Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher - Culicicapa ceylonensis
Black-throated Tit - Aegithalos concinnus
Red-whiskered Bulbul - Pycnonotus jocosus
Brown-breasted Bulbul - Pycnonotus xanthorrhous
Light-vented Bulbul - Pycnonotus sinensis
Sooty-headed Bulbul - Pycnonotus aurigaster
Dusky Warbler - Phylloscopus fuscatus
Tickell's Leaf Warbler - Phylloscopus affinis
Pallas's Leaf Warbler - Phylloscopus proregulus
Hume's Warbler - Phylloscopus humei
Blyth's Leaf Warbler - Phylloscopus reguloides
Davison's Leaf Warbler - Phylloscopus davisoni
Gray-crowned Warbler - Seicercus tephrocephalus
Spectacled Fulvetta - Fulvetta ruficapilla
Oriental White-eye - Zosterops palpebrosus
Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler - Megapomatorhinus gravivox
White-browed Laughingthrush - Ianthocincla sannio
Red-billed Leiothrix - Leiothrix lutea
Blue-winged Minla - Actinodura cyanouroptera
Dark-sided Flycatcher - Muscicapa sibirica
Ferruginous Flycatcher - Muscicapa ferruginea
Asian Brown Flycatcher - Muscicapa dauurica
Oriental Magpie-Robin - Copsychus saularis
Hill Blue-Flycatcher - Cyornis banyumas
Verditer Flycatcher - Eumyias thalassinus
Siberian Blue Robin - Larvivora cyane
Siberian Rubythroat - Calliope calliope
White-tailed Robin - Cinclidium leucurum
Slaty-backed Flycatcher - Ficedula sordida
Daurian Redstart - Phoenicurus auroreus
Common Hill Myna - Gracula religiosa
White-cheeked Starling - Spodiopsar cineraceus
Crested Myna - Acridotheres cristatellus
Gould's Sunbird - Aethopyga gouldiae
White Wagtail - Motacilla alba
Black-headed Greenfinch - Chloris ambigua
Yellow-billed Grosbeak - Eophona migratoria
Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Passer montanus

great, penduline, black throat or other. i miss seeing tits.

I think you mean Black-throated.

Those tits are everywhere but there's more to it than just tits.

I've seen monkeys

in puer in the forrest....

i only ever seem to see lesser tits

while hiking on the outskirts of kunming, i saw a massive owl and near the burmese border a civet and huge beetles. Some snakes too

I'm back in beautiful LiJiang for the national holiday - been gone since mid-July. Now I notice tons of large spiders and webs all over the trees, wires, etc. They must have been feasting for some time as many of the webs are filled with dead bugs. Many of these spiders have long green stripes on their backs. Any arachnid buffs here to suggest a species name?

Golden Orb spider.

The man knows his spiders! Thanks Napoleon.