Cypselurus92
Well-known member
Frogfish has kindly suggested that I make my own thread this to me a while ago, and so here I am I suppose. I'm a fairly regular commenter on many birding (and other animal or environment-related) forums, but I doubt I've actually started a thread before. So here goes!
As some of you know, I am Cypselurus, a 9th grade student studying at SAS Pudong, a school close to the once-mythical San Jia Gang. I have birded Shanghai quite frequently for the last 4 or so years, and found a few quite interesting birds over that time- the diminutive Speckled Piculet, and the Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher spring to mind. I have a history of missing vagrants, however, and the Slaty-backed Gulls, Black Scoters, and Chinese Thrushes have all eluded me :-C
But anyhow! I hope to post on this thread and update frequently with lists of birds I find on my every-other-weekly visits, and hopefully make an interesting discovery or two. I am not, unlike the big guns here on this forum, a photographer- I am not all that interested in photography (though I do admire a good photo, of which there are many here), nor do I have the equipment possible to take any satisfactory photos. However, if there really is a rare bird out there who would like to sit 2 feet from me and stay there while I snap a photo of it with my iPhone is very much welcome, and mealworms will be given to it as a reward
So yeah. Hopefully, I will post with some regularity here, sometimes about birding trips, sometimes just about birds in general, but I will do something about this thread, honest.
As some of you know, I am Cypselurus, a 9th grade student studying at SAS Pudong, a school close to the once-mythical San Jia Gang. I have birded Shanghai quite frequently for the last 4 or so years, and found a few quite interesting birds over that time- the diminutive Speckled Piculet, and the Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher spring to mind. I have a history of missing vagrants, however, and the Slaty-backed Gulls, Black Scoters, and Chinese Thrushes have all eluded me :-C
But anyhow! I hope to post on this thread and update frequently with lists of birds I find on my every-other-weekly visits, and hopefully make an interesting discovery or two. I am not, unlike the big guns here on this forum, a photographer- I am not all that interested in photography (though I do admire a good photo, of which there are many here), nor do I have the equipment possible to take any satisfactory photos. However, if there really is a rare bird out there who would like to sit 2 feet from me and stay there while I snap a photo of it with my iPhone is very much welcome, and mealworms will be given to it as a reward
So yeah. Hopefully, I will post with some regularity here, sometimes about birding trips, sometimes just about birds in general, but I will do something about this thread, honest.