Weather fronts arriving from the north this last week coupled with the last couple of days clearing off with cooler temperatures and some of the best seeing that I have encountered in China have gotten me out the last couple of days. Beautiful blue skies and cooler temperatures.
Yesterday yielded some
Dark-sided Flycatcher and a few very shy
Taiga Flycatcher. A few
Brown Shrike continue to hang around though they are staying very quiet and hide in the foliage very well.
Today's outing was longer and over to a wetland area. The wetlands recovered very quickly in the last month with the constant rain. The thin and stunted reeds have shot up and are now lush and over two meters high! I managed to add
Reed Parrotbill to my life-list and found three
Chinese Pond Heron. A few
Little Grebe, which I have seen only rarely this season, were found in a water channel in the wetlands. The little terrier passed by a female
Ring-necked Pheasant at less than a meter away without it flushing or the dog even noticing it. It finally flushed as I walked by but I wasn't able to get the camera up quick enough to take a photo. One
Pallas's Leaf Warbler was observed at very close range, too close to focus on before it disappeared into the foliage.
Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Aug 24, 2017 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 kilometer(s)
10 species
Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) 1
Gray-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus) 1
Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) 6
Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus) 5
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 10
Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) 1
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 4
Dark-sided Flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) 4
Taiga Flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) 3
Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) 5
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38805947
Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Aug 25, 2017 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 kilometer(s)
11 species
Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) 1
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) 5
Chinese Pond-Heron (Ardeola bacchus) 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) 1
Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) 1
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 30
Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) 4
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 2
Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) 1
Reed Parrotbill (Paradoxornis heudei) 2
Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) 100 one large flock
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38808526