Owen Krout
Well-known member
August 31
Spent three hours hiking Gedalou Reservoir and though not a large number of birds, there was a nice selection and with the nice weather made for a nice day. I came back with an almost exhausted battery and over a thousand pics which whittled down to eighty worth working with. Trying to photograph Terns in flight is really hard!
The standards for there of C. Magpie and Barn Swallow, but there was activity all around. I found a nesting area for the Chinese Pond Heron where the parents were trying to get the juveniles out of the nests and into the air and chasing the Common Magpie off that were stealing fish from the juvies.
White-Winged Tern were working the shoreline in numbers and were a real challenge to photo. Those little buggers move fast!
A flock of Vinous-Throated Parrotbill, but they only briefly popped out into view and I didn't get anything worth seeing. I don't know how many there actually were, but I only actually saw four of them.
It is a known breeding area for Grey Heron and sure enough one made an appearance as well as 20 Intermediate Egret five Black-Crowned Night Heron and two Great White Egret.
Nine Little Grebe and 6 Great Crested Grebe also made a showing as well as 3 Great Cormorant.
Gedalou Reservoir, Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Aug 31, 2018 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 kilometer(s)
17 species
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) 9
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) 6
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) 5
White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) 50
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) 3
Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea) 1
Great Egret (Ardea alba) 2
Intermediate Egret (Ardea intermedia) 20
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) 5
Chinese Pond-Heron (Ardeola bacchus) 8
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) 5
Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) 1
Oriental Magpie (Pica serica) 7
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 75
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 2
Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Sinosuthora webbiana) 4
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48208419
Spent three hours hiking Gedalou Reservoir and though not a large number of birds, there was a nice selection and with the nice weather made for a nice day. I came back with an almost exhausted battery and over a thousand pics which whittled down to eighty worth working with. Trying to photograph Terns in flight is really hard!
The standards for there of C. Magpie and Barn Swallow, but there was activity all around. I found a nesting area for the Chinese Pond Heron where the parents were trying to get the juveniles out of the nests and into the air and chasing the Common Magpie off that were stealing fish from the juvies.
White-Winged Tern were working the shoreline in numbers and were a real challenge to photo. Those little buggers move fast!
A flock of Vinous-Throated Parrotbill, but they only briefly popped out into view and I didn't get anything worth seeing. I don't know how many there actually were, but I only actually saw four of them.
It is a known breeding area for Grey Heron and sure enough one made an appearance as well as 20 Intermediate Egret five Black-Crowned Night Heron and two Great White Egret.
Nine Little Grebe and 6 Great Crested Grebe also made a showing as well as 3 Great Cormorant.
Gedalou Reservoir, Panjin, Dawa County, Liaoning, CN, Liaoning, CN
Aug 31, 2018 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 kilometer(s)
17 species
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) 9
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) 6
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) 5
White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) 50
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) 3
Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea) 1
Great Egret (Ardea alba) 2
Intermediate Egret (Ardea intermedia) 20
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) 5
Chinese Pond-Heron (Ardeola bacchus) 8
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) 5
Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) 1
Oriental Magpie (Pica serica) 7
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 75
Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 2
Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Sinosuthora webbiana) 4
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48208419