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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mjgrunwell" data-source="post: 3290671" data-attributes="member: 89962">Nanhui coast, Sunday 4 October 2015Today was the last day of my holiday, I took the metro down to Dishui lake and then a cab out to the northernmost micro-forest on the seawall. I walked all the way south to the Holiday inn checking all the micro-forests and clumps on the way. Just after my arrival at the Holiday inn it started to shower, I walked as far as the jetty into the lake just south of the “grandstand” (the huge white elephant of a building to the south of the hotel). It was a great day with a fresh onshore breeze, not too hot and many birds overhead on the long walk south. Best birds Sunday 4 October, Nanhui coastDucks, 200+ distant small ducks probably teal but I suspect some garganey in with them.Mallard, 5 on the sea, Spotbill, 40+ on the seaOne female type eastern marsh harrier over the fieldsIntermediate egret, 150+ on the “dowitcher pool”Grey heron now the commonest heronDalmatian pelican : 1 adult on the spoonbill lake, the same individual as first seen back in AugustWaders : same as last Friday but no scope todayBlack-tailed gull : 2 immTerns: usual GB, WW and whiskeredBull-headed shrike : 1 juvenileFlycatchers:Asian brown : 5+Dark sided: 1Yellow-rumped, 1 noisy female, whistled note followed by angry rattleTaiga, 1Blue+white : 9+Mugimaki, 4+WarblersRaddes, 1Arctic, 5+Pallas’s 1Eastern crowned, 1WT Rock thrush, superb prolonged, close views of a femaleSibe rubythroat, a superb male at the south end of the grandstandSwinhoe’s robin, 1ThrushesWhites, 15+Grey-backed, 4+Dusky, one male on the jetty, a very early recordNo buntings todayA great day out with a nice list</blockquote>

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