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Dalian Birding (1 Viewer)
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MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
Migration does start to run dry at this time of year, but Daurian Starlings (not a fan of Purple-backed as a name) are a pretty good way to wrap it up.
We still have waders, so I'm sure it won't be too long before you get some, possibly late-moving non-breeding birds - and by the end of the mionth returning birds too.
Cheers
Mike
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.
The ride to and from showed...
1 Eurasian Kestrel
1 Common Pheasant
1 small flock of Oriental Greenfinches.
6 species today.
DB
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.
The ride to and from showed...
1 Eurasian Kestrel
1 Common Pheasant
1 small flock of Oriental Greenfinches.
6 species today.
DB
About 5.30 this morning here in Beijing, just west of the Shichahai area and south of Jishuitan Bridge, I heard a very distinct call from an Indian cuckoo. I guess they are still in town for the summer.
Slightly unrelated to birding but worth a mention: I ran across a black mulberry (黑桑树) tree near Xiaoxitian. No birds eating the berries, but one neighborhood street urchin had climbed on top of the nearest ping fang, and was picking berries to his heart's content.
Slightly unrelated to birding but worth a mention: I ran across a black mulberry (黑桑树) tree near Xiaoxitian. No birds eating the berries, but one neighborhood street urchin had climbed on top of the nearest ping fang, and was picking berries to his heart's content.
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. Another first for me in this area!
Near the coast were:
3 Mandarin Ducks
25+ Spot-billed Ducks (unusually high count compared to latest records)
6 Malards
1 Common Hoopoe
2 Eurasian Cuckoos
Barn Swallows
1 Grey-tailed Tattler
Little Ringed Plovers
Kentish Plovers
Black-tailed Gulls
Vega or Mongolian Gulls (I never know which is which)
Common Kestrel
20+ Chinese Egrets (The most I have ever seen in one area).
3 Little Egrets
6 Striated Heron
3 Black-naped Oriole
Great Tits
Chinese Bulbuls
White Wagtails
1 Citrine Wagtail
Oriental Greenfinch
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. Another first for me in this area!
Near the coast were:
3 Mandarin Ducks
25+ Spot-billed Ducks (unusually high count compared to latest records)
6 Malards
1 Common Hoopoe
2 Eurasian Cuckoos
Barn Swallows
1 Grey-tailed Tattler
Little Ringed Plovers
Kentish Plovers
Black-tailed Gulls
Vega or Mongolian Gulls (I never know which is which)
Common Kestrel
20+ Chinese Egrets (The most I have ever seen in one area).
3 Little Egrets
6 Striated Heron
3 Black-naped Oriole
Great Tits
Chinese Bulbuls
White Wagtails
1 Citrine Wagtail
Oriental Greenfinch
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MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
Hi Dave
Many thanks for posting these pix. Brilliant to see Pelagic Cormorant - a bird I thought was a big rarity as a breeding bird
I hate to be a party pooper, but I think the Gray's Grasshopper Warbler looks like an Oriental Reed Warbler. It would be amazing for a Gray's to be out of cover like this, and I think the head pattern is closer to ORW, and the legs & feet are too dark and the tal should be more rufous.
I hasten to add I have never seen Gray's , but it does look good for ORW.
Cheers
Mike
Many thanks for posting these pix. Brilliant to see Pelagic Cormorant - a bird I thought was a big rarity as a breeding bird
I hate to be a party pooper, but I think the Gray's Grasshopper Warbler looks like an Oriental Reed Warbler. It would be amazing for a Gray's to be out of cover like this, and I think the head pattern is closer to ORW, and the legs & feet are too dark and the tal should be more rufous.
I hasten to add I have never seen Gray's , but it does look good for ORW.
Cheers
Mike
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 Oriental Reed Warbler, I figured I should get a picture and post to see what reactions are out there! It was out of cover for only a split second between bushes, and I was shocked that they got a picture of it. The group had plenty of equipment and much better cameras, etc...but to get a picture of this bird between the brush took incredibly quick hands. I sure didn't get a photo. I certainly wasn't sitting in the open posing for portraits!
By the way, you are sure they are Pelagic Cormorants??
Thanks,
Dave
By the way, you are sure they are Pelagic Cormorants??
Thanks,
Dave
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MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
Hi Dave
The Pelagic Cormorants look good - the only potential confusion species is Red-faced Cormorant, which unsurprisingly, shows more red on the face.
Here is a link to pix of Gray's which I'm pretty stunned by - looks more like a thrush or a pipit than a warbler on those long legs! There's another picture in the same Flickr set.
Cheers
Mike
The Pelagic Cormorants look good - the only potential confusion species is Red-faced Cormorant, which unsurprisingly, shows more red on the face.
Here is a link to pix of Gray's which I'm pretty stunned by - looks more like a thrush or a pipit than a warbler on those long legs! There's another picture in the same Flickr set.
Cheers
Mike
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, my China list is over 250 species so I feel quite satisfied with all the sightings locally over the past 10 months.
Good Birding to all,
Dave
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, my China list is over 250 species so I feel quite satisfied with all the sightings locally over the past 10 months.
Good Birding to all,
Dave
