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    Dalian Birding

    End of "patch" Hello fellow Bird-enjoyers. I am all packed up and tomorrow I leave for Canada, so my "patch" here in China has ended. Thanks for the help, advice, identification, etc that you have provided while I was here. With very little travel and working fulltime in an unrelated field...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Very special sighting! Thanks for sharing. DB
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    Dalian Birding

    Wow! If I saw that bird I would not be looking in the warbler section. I would be trying to match it with some thrush species for sure!! Thanks for the link DB
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    Dalian Birding

    Thanks for the comments, Mike. No 'party pooper' status is headed your way, this is why I wanted the pictures to post them. The group I was with seemed to really know their birds and concluded it was a Gray's Grasshopper Warbler. Since I have no experience with the bird, and very little with...
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    Dalian Birding

    For Mike and Mark Some pics for Mike and Mark from my recent trip to Shicheng Islands, not far from my home here in Jinshitan. Credit to Bai for the quick hands on the Gray's Warbler photo.
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    Dalian Birding

    Jinshitan Local Birding Again. Despite finding very little around these past view days, I headed out with a spare hour or two this morning. I figured it rained on Friday, so being Saturday, maybe the odd late migrant was out and about. Well, I was rewarded with views of 1 Grey-tailed Tattler...
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    Dalian Birding

    Sandflats and area Today Wow, Birding is quiet these days. I went down to the sandflats to see if I could find the odd rare, late migrant, but there was very little to be seen... 7 Chinese Egrets 1 Little Ringed Plover 2 White Wagtails That was it! No gulls, no ducks, no more shorebirds...
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    Dalian Birding

    Also.... Regularly seen Eurasian Blackbird is here. Isn't this an unusually far north sighting for this species? Another species moving north like the Chinese Bulbuls we are flooded with? Had 2 Purple-backed Starlings the other day as well. Never saw them before. DB
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    Dalian Birding

    I also had a Pechora Pipit up here last week. When we parted ways, I was going to get some pictures emailed to me, but haven't had that yet. If I get them, I will ask if I can post them here. Birding is very quiet here right now...a couple of Dollarbirds already, lots of Orioles around, not...
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    Dalian Birding

    Pelagic Cormorants nest on the island there, but I only saw 1 (great views). I was told that they are regular visitors as usually in a group of 4 or more. I don't have pics but the others do. One of the WWF birders has pics of the Gray's Warbler. I don't have pics again..sorry :(. It...
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    Dalian Birding

    Sicheng Islands Had the great priviledge of joining the WWF count of Black-faced Spoonbills on Sicheng Islands (fairly close by) on Saturday. We saw: 8 Black-faced Spoonbills (3 were young) Vega Gulls Black-headed Gulls Black-tailed Gulls Pelagic Cormorant Oriental Honey Buzzards 1 Pechora...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    An interesting read, Mike. Thanks for sharing your many bird outings. You have had a great couple of days there and the Pitta experience sounds fantastic. I saw the Orange-headed Thrush in Thailand this past winter but it is a hit/miss bird there as well, I am told. Dave P.S. Congrats on...
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    Dalian Birding

    May 16 Jinshitan, China Spotted mainly along the coastline yesterday: Several Common Pheasant 4 Mallard 25+ Spot-billed Ducks 1 Common Kingfisher 1 Eurasian Cuckoo 10+ Pacific Swift Hill Pigeon 2 Oriental Turtle Dove 1 Common Moorhen 1 Snipe sp. 100+ Whimbrel 6 Common Greenshank 5 Common...
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    Cuckoo in Dalian, China

    Thanks all. I went back today and refound the bird. It was calling with a "kok - cooooo" call so I think that confirms it as a Eurasian Cuckoo. Thanks a lot! You all are so helpful! Dave
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    Dalian Birding

    Saw the Cuckoo again today and this time it was calling with a loud "Cuc-koooo". I heard it a lot. I am asuming that this is the same bird as yesterday, so this would mean the photos are of a Eurasian Cuckoo. I have some photos from today but am heading out birding this afternoon so the tech...
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