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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xiaoming" data-source="post: 1396519" data-attributes="member: 63200">Hi Gretchen:Qinghuangdao is a good place for birding, you can take a bus to ChiTuShanDaQiao and you will see many gulls and waders on the coast and some ducks in the sea. Yes, Chinese bulbul will stay all year in qinhuangdao. Sorry for un-update it for such a longtime. As you know, it's not easy to get a PhD Degree. Not much time.Tomorrow(Feb 3rd) is LiChun in Chinese Calendar, which means the start of spring. So in the last day of this winter, I went to Beijing Botanical Garden after lunch.Azure-winged Magpie, Black-billed Magpie and Tree Sparrow are the most common birds here. Near the entrance, I saw a Light-vented(Chinese) Bulbul and some Dusky Thrush.Snowy-browed Nuthatchs like "Liang Qi-Chao tomb" for many pine trees there. This time I find two. Brambling and Yellow-billed Grosbeak are winer birds in Beijing, you can see hundreds of Bramblings in Beijing Botanical Garden.The river in Cherry valley(Ying Tao Gou) have thawed, but I didn't see any birds drink there, maybe noon is not a good time.  In the hill, I saw two Yellow-throated Buntings and many Marsh Tits.</blockquote>