Jinshitan Country Club and Sea Farming Ponds April 30, 2013
5:00 to 10:00 today with Remco Hofland and his girlfriend Belle from Holland. I didn't have much time to spend with them but we still enjoyed migration this morning. We did not have time to cover all of the Sea-farming Pond areas but did cover the Country Club well. The list below is a total from both places:
Common Pheasant
Mallard - 20
Spot-billed Duck - 4
Garganey - 2
Baikal Teal - 95% sure of 1 female
Striated Heron - 1
Chinese Pond Heron - 1 (FOS)
Purple Heron - 7 (my most ever together in Liaoning)
Chinese Egret - 3
Eurasian Kestrel - 1
Little-ringed Plover - 5
Swin-tailed Snipe - 2
Snipe Sp. - 3
Whimbrel - 6
Common Greenshank - 2 (FOS)
Black-tailed Gull - 2
Vega/Mongolian Gull - 1
Black-headed Gull - 3
Oriental Turtle Dove - 2
Spotted Dove - 2
Common Kingfisher - 2
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2
Ashy Minivet - 2 (heard more) (FOS)
Brown Shrike - 2 (FOS)
Great Tit - 2
Chinese Penduline Tit - 15
Barn Swallow - 10
Chinese Bulbul - 2
Pallas's Leaf Warbler - 1
Yellow-browed Warbler - 60 minimum
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 1 (FOS)
Eastern Crowned Warbler - 2
Crested Myna - 6
Red-billed Starling - 1
White-cheeked Starling - 5
Grey-backed Thrush - 3
Eurasian Blackbird - 2 (FOS)
Dusky Thrush - 25
Siberian Stonechat - 6
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1 (FOS)
White Wagtail - 25 (all leucopsis and 1 ocularis)
Olive-backed Pipit - 2
Pechora Pipit - 2 (FOS)
Buff-bellied Pipit - 5 (FOS)
Brambling - 10
Greenfinch - 10
Eurasian Siskin - 20
Hawfinch - 2
Chinese Grosbeak - 6
Meadow Bunting - 1
Tristram's Bunting - 2
Chestnut-eared Bunting - 6
Little Bunting - 8
Yellow-browed Bunting - 10
Black-faced Bunting - 15
Pallas's Reed Bunting - 3
5:00 to 10:00 today with Remco Hofland and his girlfriend Belle from Holland. I didn't have much time to spend with them but we still enjoyed migration this morning. We did not have time to cover all of the Sea-farming Pond areas but did cover the Country Club well. The list below is a total from both places:
Common Pheasant
Mallard - 20
Spot-billed Duck - 4
Garganey - 2
Baikal Teal - 95% sure of 1 female
Striated Heron - 1
Chinese Pond Heron - 1 (FOS)
Purple Heron - 7 (my most ever together in Liaoning)
Chinese Egret - 3
Eurasian Kestrel - 1
Little-ringed Plover - 5
Swin-tailed Snipe - 2
Snipe Sp. - 3
Whimbrel - 6
Common Greenshank - 2 (FOS)
Black-tailed Gull - 2
Vega/Mongolian Gull - 1
Black-headed Gull - 3
Oriental Turtle Dove - 2
Spotted Dove - 2
Common Kingfisher - 2
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2
Ashy Minivet - 2 (heard more) (FOS)
Brown Shrike - 2 (FOS)
Great Tit - 2
Chinese Penduline Tit - 15
Barn Swallow - 10
Chinese Bulbul - 2
Pallas's Leaf Warbler - 1
Yellow-browed Warbler - 60 minimum
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 1 (FOS)
Eastern Crowned Warbler - 2
Crested Myna - 6
Red-billed Starling - 1
White-cheeked Starling - 5
Grey-backed Thrush - 3
Eurasian Blackbird - 2 (FOS)
Dusky Thrush - 25
Siberian Stonechat - 6
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1 (FOS)
White Wagtail - 25 (all leucopsis and 1 ocularis)
Olive-backed Pipit - 2
Pechora Pipit - 2 (FOS)
Buff-bellied Pipit - 5 (FOS)
Brambling - 10
Greenfinch - 10
Eurasian Siskin - 20
Hawfinch - 2
Chinese Grosbeak - 6
Meadow Bunting - 1
Tristram's Bunting - 2
Chestnut-eared Bunting - 6
Little Bunting - 8
Yellow-browed Bunting - 10
Black-faced Bunting - 15
Pallas's Reed Bunting - 3