Owen Krout
Well-known member
March 21, 2017
A trip to Gedalou Reservoir was not as productive as last week, but still a nice outing. I was fighting a general haze, which made the camera struggle with focus at times and even when it did well the birds were often so distant that I was forced to enlarge the shot to where I started losing resolution. Whereas last time ducks were the stars, this time it was mostly gulls. A few outstanding points though. Sometimes it is just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
While trying to get a usable id shot of the Swan Goose far out in the middle of the lake, I just happened to be right where three White Wagtail 'Amur' (leucopsis) coming up from the south swooped down for a brief rest and a drink. Within less than 10 minutes they were once again headed north.
The Great Crested Grebe were claiming territories along the shoreline. One fellow came up from a dive with a fish almost too large to swallow! I got a nice sequence out of his performance.
Unfortunately, I also found a GC Grebe that had what I am sure will prove to be a fatal injury. He was still defending a breeding territory, so the injury must be quite recent, but he has a broken upper bill, which will make it almost impossible to eat. I've used up my allotment for this post, so I will make another posting with those shots.
Black-headed Gull were in abundance out in the middle of the lake with a few Swan Goose and I heard a Hoopoe calling. That was nice to hear as, unlike past winters, it was cold enough that all the Hoopoe abandoned us for the winter.
Gedalou Reservoir, Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Mar 21, 2017 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 kilometer(s)
7 species
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) 17
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) 340
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 22
Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops) 1
Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) 7
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) 3
Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla) 2
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S35344947
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
A trip to Gedalou Reservoir was not as productive as last week, but still a nice outing. I was fighting a general haze, which made the camera struggle with focus at times and even when it did well the birds were often so distant that I was forced to enlarge the shot to where I started losing resolution. Whereas last time ducks were the stars, this time it was mostly gulls. A few outstanding points though. Sometimes it is just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
While trying to get a usable id shot of the Swan Goose far out in the middle of the lake, I just happened to be right where three White Wagtail 'Amur' (leucopsis) coming up from the south swooped down for a brief rest and a drink. Within less than 10 minutes they were once again headed north.
The Great Crested Grebe were claiming territories along the shoreline. One fellow came up from a dive with a fish almost too large to swallow! I got a nice sequence out of his performance.
Unfortunately, I also found a GC Grebe that had what I am sure will prove to be a fatal injury. He was still defending a breeding territory, so the injury must be quite recent, but he has a broken upper bill, which will make it almost impossible to eat. I've used up my allotment for this post, so I will make another posting with those shots.
Black-headed Gull were in abundance out in the middle of the lake with a few Swan Goose and I heard a Hoopoe calling. That was nice to hear as, unlike past winters, it was cold enough that all the Hoopoe abandoned us for the winter.
Gedalou Reservoir, Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Mar 21, 2017 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 kilometer(s)
7 species
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) 17
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) 340
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 22
Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops) 1
Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) 7
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) 3
Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla) 2
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S35344947
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)