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Dalian (Jinshitan) Birding Reports (2 Viewers)

May 18 Country Club

Covered it well today.

Common Pheasant
Striated Heron - 4 (one flew off a new looking nest, will check it in future weeks)
Chinese Pond Heron - 1
Cattle Egret - 3
Eurasian Kestrel - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
Whimbrel - 2
Spotted Dove - 1
Common Kingfisher - 2
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Brown Shrike - 2
Black-naped Oriole - 1
Great Tit - 1
Barn Swallow - 20
Chinese Bulbul - 2
Radde's Warbler - 1
Yellow-browed Warbler - 5
Arctic Warbler - 2
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 2
Eastern Crowned Warbler - 1
White-cheeked Starling - 1
Siberian Rubythroat - 1
Siberian Blue Robin - 1 female
White-throated Rock Thrush - 1 male
Grey-streaked Flycatcher - 4
Dark-sided Flycatcher - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - at least 20
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 5
Mugimaki Flycatcher - 2
Taiga Flycatcher - 3
Forest Wagtail - 3
Yellow Wagtail - 1 flyover seen well
Grey Wagtail - 1
White Wagtail - 2
Oriental Greenfinch - 25
Eurasian Siskin - 1
Black-faced Bunting - 8
Olive-backed Pipit - 1
 

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May 19, 2012 Forest near the sea-farming ponds

Tried something different for a few hours this afternoon. Went back to the woods where I found the Two-barred Crossbill earlier this year and did some exploring. I didn't find anything special but did pick up a few ticks......not referring to checking off birds....just had one walking across my keyboard as I type. Hot shower tonight.

Interesting scare crow pictured below.

Common Pheasant
Mallard - 5 including one female on a nest deep in the forest?!
Great Egret - 1
Intermediate Egret - 3
Chinese Egret - 5
Eurasian Kestrel - 1
Amur Falcon - 2
Eurasian Hobby - 1 landed right in front of me but in bad light.
Little-ringed Plover - 3
Kentish Plover - 2
Whimbrel - counted exactly 40 in one sweep of the mudflats
Terek Sandpiper - 1
Common Sandpiper - 3
Gull Sp - about 150 way out on the mud
Oriental Turtle Dove - 1
Black-naped Oriole - 6
Great Tit - one doing a strange call, recording below
Chinese Penduline Tit - a few calling
Barn Swallow - 20
Dusky Warbler - 1
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2
Arctic Warbler - 3
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 2
Vinous-throated Parrotbill - a few
Blue Rock Thrush - 1
Grey-streaked Flycatcher - 4
Asian Brown Flycatcher - many
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 2
White Wagtail - 3 leucopsis
Oriental Greenfinch - many
Tristram's Bunting - 1
Chestnut Bunting - 4
Black-faced Bunting - 5
 

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May 19 recordings

The Great Tit call is something I can't remember hearing before. It was a little darker on the vent but appeared to be a normal Great Tit of Parus major. Forgive the Black-naped Oriole in the middle of the recording.

The hobby recording is the one that landed in front of me.
 

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May 22, 2012 Sea-farming Ponds

Quick visits to most of the main sites at this place today.

Common Pheasant
Mallard
Spot-billed Duck - 6
Little grebe - many
Striated Heron - 1
Grey Heron - 1
Chinese Egret - 6
Eurasian Kestrel - 1 including one that dropped and flew off with what I believe was a Little-ringed Plover.
Pacific Golden Plover - 1
Long-billed Plover - 7
Kentish Plover - 4
Whimbrel - 2
Common Sandpiper - 3
Gull Sp - many distant
Oriental Turtle Dove - 1
Indian Cuckoo - 1
Eurasian Cuckoo - 1 calling in the hills (FOS)
Oriental Scops Owl - 1 calling as I left
Hoopoe - 1
Black-naped Oriole - 1 seen and several calling
Chinese Penduline Tit - 2-3 calling
Barn Swallow - 20
Zitting Cisticola - 2
Lanceolated Warbler - 1 (FOS)
Oriental Reed Warbler - 1
Thick-billed Warbler - 1 seen and another heard (recording below) (FOS)
Vinous-throated Parrotbill - one group
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
White Wagtail - 3 leucopsis
Pechora Pipit - 2
Red-throated Pipit - 1 about as red-headed as can be encountered! Never landed.
Oriental Greenfinch - 10
Hawfinch - 1 usually seen in the winter but sometimes get some in May.(FOS)
 

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The Blue Rock Thrush couple above are from a Sunday afternoon drive with some friends.

Interesting Fact: I've seen 301 total species in Liaoning Province and I'm up to 241 for this calendar year already. I think habitat loss this year more than ever is funneling birds into the few remaining half decent habitat areas left. One of them is my ever-shrinking local sea-farming pond, wetland, and mudflat area. Two trips this year with Paul Holt might also have something to do with it!
 
Jinshi Golf Club May 24, 2012

Braved the wrath of the "guards" at this place. Negotiated sneaking in the forest just behind the guard house and picking my own trail to several places located in this fantastic spot. The golf club is situated on its own mini peninsula and has what appears to be untouched forest and scrub all over it. Getting in when the place is open and operating is a challenge to say the least. Once in, I felt like I spent half my time avoiding the power hungry new guards who were bent on finding me and throwing me out. They were unsuccessful however;). When a darted off a cart path into the woods just before one of the coarse marshalls got there on a cart it seems I raised a full facility-wide man hunt. The lady at the exit told me with a smile that she heard all about me on the radio she carries! I know her well from over the years and she's the one who told me to disappear into the forest just behind her booth when I arrived. I can also report that this country is not free of people growing certain plants deep in the woods! All for medicine I believe!

Common Pheasant
Whimbrel - 1 fly over
Black-tailed Gull - maybe 10
Rufous-bellied Woodpecker - 1 (FOS)
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Brown Shrike - 2
Black-naped Oriole - many
Azure-winged Magpie - 3
Carrion Crow - 1
Great Tit - many
Chinese Penduline Tit - a few calling
Barn Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Chinese Hill Warbler - 3
Chinese Bulbul - 2
Lanceolated Warbler - almost stepped on 1
Thick-billed Warbler - 6
Dusky Warbler - 1
Radde's Warbler - 1
Arctic Warbler - many
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 2
Vinous-throated Parrotbill - many
Crested Myna - 2
Blue Rock Thrush - close to 10 including some mating
Grey-streaked Flycatcher - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
Oriental Greenfinch - many
Chinese Grosbeak - 8 (FOS) I seem to see them only in the middle of the winter or in the end of May.
Yellow-browed Bunting - 1 beautiful male
 

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"...darted off a cart path into the woods just before one of the coarse marshalls got there on a cart it seems I raised a full facility-wide man hunt."
I was whistling the signature tune of The Great Escape as I read your latest report.
 
Country Club May 25, 2012

Common Pheasant
Mallard
Striated Heron - 4
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1
Chinese Pond Heron - 1
Northern Hobby - 1
Chinese Sparrowhawk - 1 (FOS)
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Brown Shrike - 2
Black-naped Oriole - 3
Great Tit - including some young out of the nest already
Barn Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Chinese Bulbul - 2
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Oriental Reed Warbler - 2
Black-browed Warbler - 2
Arctic Warbler - 5
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 1
Vinous-throated Parrotbill - 10
Red-billed Starling - 1 (FOS) seen annually in May here
Dark-sided Flycatcher - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 5
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Forest Wagtail - 3
White Wagtail - 4 leucopsis
Oriental Greenfinch - 10
 

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May 24, 2012 recordings

Recordings from the Golf Club yesterday. Didn't have time last night..
 

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Sounds like you're having fun Tom.

One of my favourite memories of Chinese birding is of Nightingales singing in 10-foot high "certain plants' in the grounds of the Ili Bingguan.

Cheers
Mike
 
Jinshitan May 27, 2012

Had a little over an hour and drove to a place where Dollarbirds hang out starting around this time of year. I have also seen Drongo there in previous years and was looking for one of those as well. The area is quite wooded and it was fun identifying birds by sound alone. I saw my first Black Drongo of the year flying across the road on the way and didn't see another the entire time I was there. Three Dollarbirds sat on very high powerlines that stretch over a mountain where they usually are. I also went downt to a fishing village to see whatever was there and found a few Black-tailed Gulls but not much else. Very warm today and a pleasure to be out, even for a short amount of time.

Common Pheasant
Mallard
Northern Hobby - 1
Black-tailed Gull - 20
Oriental Turtle Dove - 3
Dollarbird - 3 (FOS)
Black-naped Oriole - many calling
Black Drongo - 1 (FOS)
Great Tit - calling
Barn Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Chinese Bulbul - calling
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - calling
Forest Wagtail - 3 calling
Oriental Greenfinch - calling
 

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That was damn hilarious Tom. You made my day. It's like John Rambo who's in a rescue mission in Korea. :t:

The distribution of black drongo is fascinating. They are the most common birds in India and the most bravest, fighting the biggest and fastest raptors.
 
May 31, 2012 Sea-farming Ponds

Slowing down here. I think June is the worst month for birding this area in terms of number of species. Still some migrants around today however.

Common Pheasant - 1 female
Mallard - 30 adults and several groups of recent young
Spot-billed Duck - 20 adults and some young
Little Grebe - 15 adults and 2 with young
Chinese Pond Heron - 1
Grey Heron - 1
Great Egret - 2
Intermediate Egret - 1
Chinese Egret - 9
Eurasian Kestrel - 1
White-breasted Waterhen - 1 heard clearly in the reeds somewhere. (FOS) Seen during the last two springs also so I guess it is annual now?
Common Moorhen - 1
Common Coot - 2
Black-winged Stilt - 4
Little-ringed Plover - 2
Common Sandpiper - 1
Black-tailed Gull - 25
Hill Pigeon - 2
Eurasian Cuckoo - 1 calling
Common Kingfisher - 1
Black-naped Oriole - several calling
Chinese Penduline Tit - several calling from tall trees where they most likely have nests.
Barn Swallow - 10
Zitting Cisticola - 3 different individuals calling
Black-browed Reed Warbler - 2
1 new reed warbler call for me but xeno-canto is down at the moment
Vinous-throated Parrotbill - 15
White Wagtail - a few leucopsis
Oriental Greenfinch - 1
 

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Country Club for lunch June 11, 2012

Been very busy lately with work. Went with my wife and son to the Country Club over lunch last Monday and found another Schrenck's Bittern -- this one a confiding female. Also there were several young White Wagtails and Striated Herons that are breeding in the surrounding hills at the moment. (I have seen Striated Herons flying to and from nesting areas in several different places in the area around this time of year for several years now) Also, we've had more rain and thunderstorms for June so far than average.
 

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Butterfly from Tom's #596

Yes, Tom, it's a butterfly !

I think it's a Chinese Peacock Papilio bianor, one of the swallowtails.

There are several similar.
 
Cotton Pygmy Goose! Sea-farming Ponds June 16, 2012

Cotton Pygmy Goose waiting for me upon arrival in the main pond. I checked with Bai in Dandong and he said there was one other Liaoning record from near Shenyang also in June. Paul informed me that there are only two historical records in Beijing also in the summer. A mega rarity in northern China. I am quite pleased to say the least! This single male was very much a wild bird and took several short flights. The pictures below are after doing a decent amount of sneaking up to it using tall grass and reeds as a blind.

The Brown Shrike recording below is of two scolding a magpie that I'm guessing was close to their nest. I never did find the nest and was sure they were going to be Tiger Shrikes when I first heard the sound. I still need Tiger Shrike for this year's list.

Also a neat comparison shot of Little and Chinese Egret below.

List from the Country Club (3 hours with family) and around 2 hours at the ponds:

Common Pheasant
Cotton Pygmy Goose (Lifer) -- wasn't even on my radar as a possibility.
Mallard
Spot-billed Duck
Little Grebe - many adults and young.
Yellow Bittern - 1
Striated Heron - over 10
Grey Heron - 1
Great Egret - 1
Intermediate Egret - 1
Little Egret - 8
Chinese Egret - I counted 18 but only covered about 1/3 of the area. Tomorrow I'm going up the coast and will def. count these.
Eurasian Kestrel - 2
Common Moorhen - 2 and young
Common Coot - 4 and young
Little-ringed Plover - 3
Black-tailed Gull - 50
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 5
Eurasian Cuckoo - 2 calling
Brown Shrike - 2
Black-naped Oriole - many
Chinese Penduline Tit - a few calling
Barn Swallow - many
Red-rumped Swallow - many
Chinese Bulbul - a few
Red-billed Starling - 3
White-cheeked Starling - 5
White Wagtail - many juv. leucopsis (40?)
Oriental Greenfinch - many including some feeding young
Meadow Bunting - 1
 

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