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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mjgrunwell" data-source="post: 3289983" data-attributes="member: 89962">Friday 2 Oct at Yangshan island and NanhuiYesterday I was out with Stephan and Xueping, we started at dawn at the rubbish dump valley then onto the yellow temple mount area. The wind had dropped and the sky was clear after two day’s rain. It was noticeably quiet, the best was a male sibe rubythroat. Back on the mainland we just missed on a chestnut-cheeked starling at the magic CP (a different male from ours at Yangshan a fortnight earlier). It did seem a little birdier in the microforests along the seawall. We finished with good scope views of the waders around the dowitcher pool at Dongtan.Complete list, Friday 2 October 2015, Yangshan island and NanhuiCommon teal, flock of 18 flew past at NanhuiDabchick, fewBC Night heron, fewCPE, oneGrey heron, 50+Little egret, fewKestrel, 1Amur falcon, one female high over the magic CPPeregrine, a pair over the islandMoorhen, fewBN stilt, fewPac golden plover, 32 at the poolLRP fewKentish plover, 200+Lesser sand plover, 40+Common snipe, 4+Barwit, 1Marsh sand, fewGreenshank, fewTerek sand, 10+Sanderling, 5RN stint, 100+Temminck’s stint, 3+LT stint, 1ST sand, 2Dunlin, 80+BB sand, 20+Oriental pratincole, 100+Little tern, 2+Whiskered tern, fewWW tern, 2Spotted dove, fewCommon king, 1Tiger shrike, 1 juvenile on YIBrown shrike, 4+LT shrike, fewBN oriole, 1Hair-crested drongo, 1 on YIEastern great tit, fewBarn swallow, 40+Plain prinia, fewChinese bulbul, fewOriental reed warbler, 1 in a micro-forestDusky warbler, 6+ on YIRadde’s warbler, 3 in the MFsPallas’s warbler, the first of the autumn, 3+ in MFYB warbler, 10+Arctic warbler, 15+VT parrotbill, small flock in a MFCrested myna, fewWhite’s thrush, 6+Grey-backed thrush, 1Siberian rubythroat, a cracking male on YIBlue rock thrush, 2WT rock thrush, 1Grey-streaked fly, 5+Asian brown fly, 6+Mugimaki fly, 4+Taiga fly, 2+Blue+white fly, 5+Tree sparrow, fewEastern yellow wag, 1White wag, fewChestnut bunting, 1 in a MFBlack-faced bunting, 2+, the first of the autumnLooking forward to getting back out next weekend</blockquote>

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