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18 months in Shanghai: March 2012 - August 2013 (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter McMadd
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Terry Townshend
Regular vagrant
Blimey, you've been busy!! Great that you saw the "big three" waders.
I liked the thrushes in general, but thought that a very notable shot too. Beautiful narcissus ... I was really impressed with the nightjar shots too - especially since I haven't managed to see one yet
(Thanks for including the kingfisher shots so we know you're a mere mortal :-O)
McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
Cheers all.
Yep, pretty hectic week...those 0330 get-ups will kill ya every time!
Mike - no pics of the Sulphur-breasted Leaf Warbler sadly...and didn't we search for it long and hard! Seemed to be the only one not to play ball for us...even studying the field guides, I didn't realise quite how bright they are...want to see more of this species if that's not too greedy!
Cheers
Mark
Yep, pretty hectic week...those 0330 get-ups will kill ya every time!
Mike - no pics of the Sulphur-breasted Leaf Warbler sadly...and didn't we search for it long and hard! Seemed to be the only one not to play ball for us...even studying the field guides, I didn't realise quite how bright they are...want to see more of this species if that's not too greedy!
Cheers
Mark
mcaribou
Migration coming
many south china residents/summer breeders appear now and then along the coast ESP. In spring.
Last spring I saw it in Rudong in apr and then saw it again in yangshan island the first time I met jocko.
It,s also been recorded in nanhui in apr maybe.
McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
0345? Time to go bunting hunting...
Thursday 26th April 2012
0345? Again?? Up and out by 0430 en route to meet Joakim for a pre-work hit and run on Nanhui: Holiday Inn Express car park and the sea wall “magic forestlet” before the reed beds and then back to town for a “normal” day in the office...
Arriving at Nanhui just as the day was getting started saw a grand sunrise, the fishermen gathered for a morning smoke and a natter as we approached the Holiday Inn's car park where the first good bird of the day was ready for us...a White-breasted Waterhen striding across the tarmac to quickly disappear into the shrubbery. Parking up it was clear that things were quieter than our previous visit last Saturday but a Japanese White-Eye posed briefly and the Chinese Bulbuls had a couple of Black-faced Buntings in tow.
As on Saturday, the dominant phylloscopus was Yellow-browed Warbler...they were enjoying themselves tsee-oo-wheet-ing once again. A lone Asian Brown Flycatcher sat up with the spider's webs glistening around him.
A gap in the trees saw Jocko well placed to spot a lone White-winged Tern that quartered the lake behind the Inn...this held a lonely male Tufted Duck and more distantly Jocko picked up a pratincole..a lifer for me had I seen it, it became the one that got away for me...a trick it repeated later when we had what was probably the same bird flying away from us as we left the reed beds. Not counting that just yet...
There seemed to have been a clear out of the waders since Saturday but we still tallied Terek Sandpiper, Greenshank, Whimbrel, 1 sandplover, 2 Long-toed Stint, a couple of Common Snipe, Wood and Common Sandpipers.
Similarly, passerines were more scarce but there had been an obvious arrival of Oriental Reed Warblers chattering and churring all over the place. A lone Pallas's Warbler; a couple of Eastern Crowned; an elusive “Dusky” type and a tail-dipping phyllosc that wouldn't play ball and call or give good enough views...
Booming Eurasian Bittern and Little, Great and Cattle Egrets plus a bunch of Grey Heron's were in the freshwater pools and reeds. A few taivana Yellow Wagtails livened things up immensely...such smart birds!
A few Vinous-throated Parrotbills and a single Reed Parrotbill were visible in the reeds and Marsh Grassbirds called from several sites. A stunning Black-capped Kingfisher sat on barbed wire with it's breakfast draped across it's red, red bill.
More birders! Zhang Lin and a group closed with us and brief hello's were made while we sipped coffee and they played hunt the marshbird...
Ticking clock and all too soon we have to pack our bins away and head back to the city and the day job...
Nice bright, early start to the day tough and early 50 species seen...not bad for the fragile edges of the megalopolis!
Thursday 26th April 2012
0345? Again?? Up and out by 0430 en route to meet Joakim for a pre-work hit and run on Nanhui: Holiday Inn Express car park and the sea wall “magic forestlet” before the reed beds and then back to town for a “normal” day in the office...
Arriving at Nanhui just as the day was getting started saw a grand sunrise, the fishermen gathered for a morning smoke and a natter as we approached the Holiday Inn's car park where the first good bird of the day was ready for us...a White-breasted Waterhen striding across the tarmac to quickly disappear into the shrubbery. Parking up it was clear that things were quieter than our previous visit last Saturday but a Japanese White-Eye posed briefly and the Chinese Bulbuls had a couple of Black-faced Buntings in tow.
As on Saturday, the dominant phylloscopus was Yellow-browed Warbler...they were enjoying themselves tsee-oo-wheet-ing once again. A lone Asian Brown Flycatcher sat up with the spider's webs glistening around him.
A gap in the trees saw Jocko well placed to spot a lone White-winged Tern that quartered the lake behind the Inn...this held a lonely male Tufted Duck and more distantly Jocko picked up a pratincole..a lifer for me had I seen it, it became the one that got away for me...a trick it repeated later when we had what was probably the same bird flying away from us as we left the reed beds. Not counting that just yet...
There seemed to have been a clear out of the waders since Saturday but we still tallied Terek Sandpiper, Greenshank, Whimbrel, 1 sandplover, 2 Long-toed Stint, a couple of Common Snipe, Wood and Common Sandpipers.
Similarly, passerines were more scarce but there had been an obvious arrival of Oriental Reed Warblers chattering and churring all over the place. A lone Pallas's Warbler; a couple of Eastern Crowned; an elusive “Dusky” type and a tail-dipping phyllosc that wouldn't play ball and call or give good enough views...
Booming Eurasian Bittern and Little, Great and Cattle Egrets plus a bunch of Grey Heron's were in the freshwater pools and reeds. A few taivana Yellow Wagtails livened things up immensely...such smart birds!
A few Vinous-throated Parrotbills and a single Reed Parrotbill were visible in the reeds and Marsh Grassbirds called from several sites. A stunning Black-capped Kingfisher sat on barbed wire with it's breakfast draped across it's red, red bill.
More birders! Zhang Lin and a group closed with us and brief hello's were made while we sipped coffee and they played hunt the marshbird...
Ticking clock and all too soon we have to pack our bins away and head back to the city and the day job...
Nice bright, early start to the day tough and early 50 species seen...not bad for the fragile edges of the megalopolis!
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McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
Vive the Proletariat!
Well, while you (China sub-section regulars) were all birding I went to "Oriental Land" (a short trip in many ways...8-P...although the 2 hour crawl through the traffic home caused me not to make it out to Pudong for a beer with Pete...owe you one still fella!)...
Team building was the order of the day but still managed to log Chinese Bulbul, Blackbird, White's Thrush, Spotted Dove, Little Egret, White-breasted Waterhen in amongst the fun and games...taking a tumble in the "Keep the Pizza Aloft" game didn't do the old knee much good so I sat out the dragon boat racing...need to nurse these old bones for planned excursions upcoming...!
Cheers
McM
Well, while you (China sub-section regulars) were all birding I went to "Oriental Land" (a short trip in many ways...8-P...although the 2 hour crawl through the traffic home caused me not to make it out to Pudong for a beer with Pete...owe you one still fella!)...
Team building was the order of the day but still managed to log Chinese Bulbul, Blackbird, White's Thrush, Spotted Dove, Little Egret, White-breasted Waterhen in amongst the fun and games...taking a tumble in the "Keep the Pizza Aloft" game didn't do the old knee much good so I sat out the dragon boat racing...need to nurse these old bones for planned excursions upcoming...!
Cheers
McM
