Owen Krout
Well-known member
August 15, 2016
Had some good success early this morning with solving a long running puzzle.
I decided this morning to make a trip over to the rice paddies where I had been seeing a number of herons, egrets and other wading birds but found the pathway I was using had new barbed wire across the entrance and deep cuts across the pathway which is now heavily overgrown. I went in anyway following after an elderly woman who was going in to burn some spirit offerings at an old grave. I managed to get back to the paddies to find they had been drained and obviously had not had anyone on the paths around the edges for quite some time. My guess is that the oil company plans on drilling there soon as they just finished a couple of other wells in the area and don't have anything in that corner yet.
Since there was no standing water anymore there were also no waders to be seen. I then decided to try something else. I have been trying all summer to get a visual on a very distinctive call which is quite common in the wetland areas. Unfortunately, although I have been able to get quite close, I have never been able to get them to leave the cover of the reeds and grasses. Therefore I switched my focus to getting a photo or audio of whatever was making the familiar call. Other than brief glimpses, I was still not able to see them, but did manage a video which I could strip the audio from. The ID forum was able to quickly come up with a suggestion of Zitting Cistola (Thanks Jeff Hopkins). Then knowing what to look for I was able to find a match in several audio files on the IBC. Another new tick for me and a mystery solved!
Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Aug 15, 2016 6:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
9 species
Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) 1
Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops) 1
Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus) 1
Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) 3
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 20
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 6
Zitting Cisticola (Cisticola juncidis) 6
Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) 10
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31097963
Had some good success early this morning with solving a long running puzzle.
I decided this morning to make a trip over to the rice paddies where I had been seeing a number of herons, egrets and other wading birds but found the pathway I was using had new barbed wire across the entrance and deep cuts across the pathway which is now heavily overgrown. I went in anyway following after an elderly woman who was going in to burn some spirit offerings at an old grave. I managed to get back to the paddies to find they had been drained and obviously had not had anyone on the paths around the edges for quite some time. My guess is that the oil company plans on drilling there soon as they just finished a couple of other wells in the area and don't have anything in that corner yet.
Since there was no standing water anymore there were also no waders to be seen. I then decided to try something else. I have been trying all summer to get a visual on a very distinctive call which is quite common in the wetland areas. Unfortunately, although I have been able to get quite close, I have never been able to get them to leave the cover of the reeds and grasses. Therefore I switched my focus to getting a photo or audio of whatever was making the familiar call. Other than brief glimpses, I was still not able to see them, but did manage a video which I could strip the audio from. The ID forum was able to quickly come up with a suggestion of Zitting Cistola (Thanks Jeff Hopkins). Then knowing what to look for I was able to find a match in several audio files on the IBC. Another new tick for me and a mystery solved!
Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Aug 15, 2016 6:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
9 species
Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) 1
Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops) 1
Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus) 1
Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) 3
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 20
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 6
Zitting Cisticola (Cisticola juncidis) 6
Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) 10
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31097963