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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    19 April Beiling Park Before Lunch my family and I went to have a walk and do some boating in Beiling Park during the first hot spring day. Not much time for Birding, maybe 20 mintues while the others were resting on a bench. The rest of the time were observations on the go. Must be much more...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Shenyang University 18 april 2018 Hi Tom, no picture of the possible rustic bunting unfortunately. I have a pocket camera with decent zoom on hand, but by the time I have it setup most birds have moved, so I mostly don't take the risk and try to get as much observation time through my bino's...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Shenyang University 16 april 2018 This morning the skies were clear. I didn't check what the weather was in the weekend in Shenyang, but I think it was also very attractive for migrants to move up North. That is what the Waxwings and the Bluetails seem to have done over the weekend. The numbers...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Thanks for the comments Owen. I am sure it would have been great to meet each other in the field. The migrant that I also hoped to see in Yingkou but missed was Pacific swift. I am almost always seen as a 'meiguoren', sometimes as Russian. I never had the feeling or thought about the fact that...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    14-15 April visit to Yinkou Yesterday me, my wife and kids went to visit some friends in Yinkou, by train. We went to the walkway along the 'coast', which was actually the mount of the river Daoliao, just south of the Xipaotai park and the Wetland park. When we arrived the river was out and I...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    13 April Shenyang University Morning rounds at the University keeps on adding species. The first minutes I counted the waxwings that were gathered on the high electricity wires just outside the University terrain, to an exact number of 152. A White-cheeked Starling (lifer!) joined the waxwings...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Huanzidong 12 April final report To get to the Huanzidong Reservoir we had the help of a friend of my in-laws (they do not have a car themselves). It took us 2 hours to go and the same time to return, so double the time I read otherwise. The GPS of our driver showed a location on the...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Quick notes Huanzidong 12 April Quick notes about the visit today to Huanzidong reservoir, because I don't have the time for a full report, that will have to come later. I did see some Siberian cranes, 8 to be exact, but at far distance on the South side. The easiest access to the lake is...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Shenyang University 11 april 2018 Hi Tom, Nice to see you sometimes still visit this forum. Unfortunately, my vacation will end on April 20th, so just before the prime migration. But it does allow to check the Huanzidong Reservoir for Siberian Cranes. We have a plan to go tomorrow! I don't have...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Shenyang University and suroundings 09 april 2018 Remarkables of todays tour were 2 male Red-flanked Bluetails and the fact that the Bluetails have increased their numbers. The same goes for Pallas’s Leaf Warblers, some even singing after the temperatures started to increase (after 8:00). A...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Sunday 8 April Shenyang University and Ningshan Park It was snowing on the morning of 6 April, but I still decided to do my round at Shenyang University. Hoping it would quit down, it didn’t really. Of the usuals, no magpies could be observed. Two Oriental greenfinches were my first this year...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Errata #65 It seems I made some mistakes with regards to post #65. 1) in bold it was of course Yellow-throated bunting, not Warbler 2) The calls from 03-April are definitely Pallas's Warbler, not Yellow-Browed Warbler` I even had similar recordings online myself, but internet here isn't always...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Hi Owen, Thanks for the tip. I have seen the path along the river and have wondered how far it would go, but never went as far as try to walk it. I never thought about it because at the point of the University it looks quite sterile with concrete banks. I had a look at a map just now and...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Shenyang University 05 april 2018 Yesterday I didn't feel like going into the cold and got some needed sleep. Today it started to itch again and although I think it was colder than yesterday, I went out to hopefully find something new again at the University grounds. Clothed myself with double...
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    Liaoning, Shenyang aka 辽宁沈阳

    Shenyang University 02-03 April 2018 Yesterday and this morning I went again to the campus of Shenyang University. I feel it is harder work to get some extra species than last trip in May 2015. Still early in the season of course. There was some rain predicted yesterday, raising my hopes for a...
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