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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Bulbuls Dear Gretchen It is great that you are getting out and about. Brown-breasted bulbul is a bird of altitude in Jiangxi province, I had them at over 1500m somewhere. I never saw them in the city. Is it possible that your bulbuls are sooty-headed? Then again the sooty-headed I have seen...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Moved to Shanghai I am now living in Shanghai and will be logging my sightings at a new thread http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=310710 Please continue to post to this thread sightings around Nanchang and Poyang Hu
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Birding in summer The worst time for birding around Nanchang is mid summer, hot and very humid. You would see all the common resident birds with a walk at Qianhu and Aixi hu. A trip out to Nanjishan would involve a boat trip and plenty of waterbirds. Get to Wuyuan for the BC LT before they...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    A very wet spring Humid and unusually wet this spring. I had planned to finally go to Wuyuan to tick off BC LT this weekend but flooding in the area is making access difficult, a walk down the hill above Wanli last weekend produced little except speckled piculet. My last full week in Nanchang.
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Books Dear Hal Not much choice,McKinnons's Birds of China, Oxford, covers all the species but can be unreliable about range and is outdated taxonomically. Mark Brazil's Birds of East Asia is a better field guide and whilst excellent with the birds of Japan is at its weakest when dealing with SE...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    My sixth visit to Emei Feng Yesterday I took another train day-trip out to Taining to meet up with Craig and Elaine Craig has all the detail on his website. The morning was very wet, we spent the time working the area around the Shuibu reservoir (SR), there is a small colony of blue-throated...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    The last of spring passage Firstly my thanks to Jonathan for pointing out my mistake re calling common cuckoo. A very quiet couple of weeks, spring passage appears to have fizzled out. I was out birding for half a day today, Sunday 24 May and I did not see a single bird that could be called a...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Spring passage now at peak Dear Jonathon Thank you for your comments, it does seem that Oriental Cuckoo has a wide variety of tonal qualities, unlike canorus, it also has a much faster paced and quicker note. I am certain this is oriental. Sunday was a very warm and humid day with heavy...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Three visits to Qianhu I was able to make quick visits to Qianhu on the evening of Wed/Thur 6/7 May and a few hours on Sat 9 May. Generally quiet with very few warblers, today, Saturday, I had hints of passage such as dollarbird and a close oriental cuckoo calling. Best birds, Qianhu, 6-9 May...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    White-spectacled warbler Some nice photos of this common songster at Emei Feng
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Buff-throated warbler This phylloscopus warbler seems to be fairly common in suitable habitat which at Emei Feng is around the TV tower at Emei Feng. We had one pair as low as the wooden boardwalk, but the alpine habitat they prefer is only just starting at the temple level. 2 photos of the...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Strange stuff on trees At Emei Fang we saw trees covered in what appeared to be a white foam. Any ideas See photos
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Another visit to Emei Feng, Fujian I spent last weekend birding at Emei Feng with Craig and Elaine. This was my fifth visit to this superb site and we were fairly successful in getting our targets. Craig has very comprehensive details and lists on his site. Best birds, Emei Feng and road to...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Playing with new toy Today I bought a Nikon Coolpix P610s as a record-shot birding camera which I can carry all the time. Really poor light today but I took this range of shots, without moving, all hand held to test the zoom. The first is at max wide angle, the second last is at the 60x max...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Three evenings at Qianhu Highlights Wed 29 April, Grey-streaked flycatcher, 2+, my! What long wings you have! Thurs 30 April Sibe Blue Robin, glimpsed, presumed same bird as two days before in exactly same place Chinese sparrowhawk, a male charging around Arctic warbler, 1 Swinhoe’s Robin, 1...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    My best ever find on a local patch Yesterday evening, Tuesday 28 April, I took the bus down to Qianhu for a quick stroll round the wooded area. All very quiet, hardly a bird of note, I was walking through the thicker brushy woodland when a bird flew across and spent a full two minutes standing...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Birding around Nanchang, week to 26 April I was able to make quick evening visits to Qianhu on Monday and Thursday evening, little new except for a peak count of 4 hair-crested drongo on Thursday. On Saturday I got over to the bus station for the 8am 159 bus to Nanjishan. Unfortunately the bus...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Some pictures of Nanchang sites 1. The northern embankment to Qianhu, a good site for buntings and pipits 2. The river from the bridge to the golf course at Polygolf, a very reliable site for brown crake 3. Dredger park, the pools are good for summer Odonata 4. Ditto, looking south, the...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Bush-warbler taxonomy Thank you for all your advice. After thoroughly reading Kennerley and looking at sonograms it is now clear that both the bird singing and the large male I saw at Ji Island belong to the form canturians. The taxonomic status of the larger Horornis bush-warblers is a...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Bush-warbler Thank you Jonathan You may be right but that would mean within two hours of the same day after nearly two years of failing to encounter this species pair I saw a Japanese and recorded a Manchurian. No way was the bird I saw earlier a canturians Manchurian. Stumped now as I cannot...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Mystery recording of a presumed bush warbler I have such a poor track record of calls that I approach this with trepidation. I had a very good view today of a bird I have never seen before, a huge, obvious bush warbler, but it completely lacked any rufous tones on the head; extremely grey head...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Swinhoe's Robin singing not Arctic warbler Sunday was a very wet day, finally got out for a damp hour at Qianhu late afternoon. Very few birds to see, a flock of YB warbler moving through but at least 3 of the singing birds I had previously called arctic warbler. I never saw the birds which...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    A warm Spring day, birding at Qianhu I had a few hours in the morning at my new local patch of Qianhu, best birds were singing Arctic warblers, a pair of GH Lapwing with 2 chicks and superb views of a hair-crested drongo. In the afternoon went over to Meiling in the hills beyond Wanli for a...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    A lovely spring day Another fine and sunny spring day. I spent 3 hours working my recently-found patch of woodland at the southern end of Qianhu. I made a few sound recordings some of which were good enough for Xeno-Canto. Highlights Sunday 12 April 2015, Qianhu Grey-headed Lapwing 3 Alarm...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Sunny day's local birding Thank you for pointing me at the swintail paper, very much food for thought, but I can’t but wonder why do Brazil et al overstate differences in light of this paper? Perhaps some adults at the end of the spectrum are reasonably easy? It would be nice to see a clear...
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