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<blockquote data-quote="Owen Krout" data-source="post: 3387471" data-attributes="member: 131330"><p><strong>April 18, 2016</strong></p><p></p><p>Despite some marginal weather, I made a trip to XiHu Park, which as the name suggests is a medium size pair of lakes on the west side of Dawa. Intermittent mist kept viewing conditions to just adequate and probably doubled the time expended, but yielded some good results. A visit in better weather would probably yield a longer list. </p><p></p><p>Just after we entered the park migrants were evident all over the sky but unfortunately just high enough to not be able to identify specific species. Looked like flights of ducks and shore birds though. One small flock of Rock Dove/Domestic Pigeon was attacked by a <strong>Eurasian Kestrel</strong> as they flew over. The Kestrel missed and made a quick diversion to what looked to possibly be Plovers. Another miss. Shortly thereafter the cloud deck lowered and blotted out the flights of migrants.</p><p></p><p>Back at ground level, while trying to get some ID photos of buntings I scared up a rabbit. The first I have seen in the wild in China. Also loudly evident was a pond of loudly calling frogs. Buntings proved to be <strong>Black-Faced Bunting and Yellow-Breasted Bunting</strong>. <strong>Barn Swallow</strong> were working the sky over the water and from just behind the frog pond I caught a quick glimpse of what looked to be a <strong>Purple Heron</strong>. Not a good enough look to be sure though so it was not counted. </p><p></p><p>A brief slightly heavier mist lifted just in time to catch some <strong>Red-Flanked Bluetail</strong> and as I was working on counting I was surprised by a shower of <strong>Brambling</strong> suddenly pouring out of the low hanging clouds. At least 150 individuals grounded and started feeding. Shortly they were joined by half a dozen <strong>Pale Thrush</strong>.</p><p></p><p>The full list is at the end of this. Tomorrow I hope to make it to the Shuangtaizi River Estuary. Weather is supposed to clear and I expect good hunting.</p><p></p><p>XiHu Park, Dawa, Liaoning, China, Liaoning, CN</p><p>Apr 18, 2016 11:30 AM - 1:45 PM</p><p>Protocol: Traveling</p><p>3.0 kilometer(s)</p><p>14 species</p><p></p><p>Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) 5</p><p>Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) 1</p><p>Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) 1</p><p>Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) 6</p><p>Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 25</p><p>Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 6</p><p>Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) 1</p><p>Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus) 4</p><p>Dusky Thrush (Turdus eunomus) 6</p><p>Yellow-browed Bunting (Emberiza chrysophrys) 4</p><p>Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla) 8</p><p>Black-faced Bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) 12</p><p>Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) 150</p><p>Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) 20</p><p></p><p>View this checklist online at <a href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29032356" target="_blank">http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29032356</a></p><p></p><p>This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (<a href="http://ebird.org" target="_blank">http://ebird.org</a>)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Owen Krout, post: 3387471, member: 131330"] [b]April 18, 2016[/b] Despite some marginal weather, I made a trip to XiHu Park, which as the name suggests is a medium size pair of lakes on the west side of Dawa. Intermittent mist kept viewing conditions to just adequate and probably doubled the time expended, but yielded some good results. A visit in better weather would probably yield a longer list. Just after we entered the park migrants were evident all over the sky but unfortunately just high enough to not be able to identify specific species. Looked like flights of ducks and shore birds though. One small flock of Rock Dove/Domestic Pigeon was attacked by a [B]Eurasian Kestrel[/B] as they flew over. The Kestrel missed and made a quick diversion to what looked to possibly be Plovers. Another miss. Shortly thereafter the cloud deck lowered and blotted out the flights of migrants. Back at ground level, while trying to get some ID photos of buntings I scared up a rabbit. The first I have seen in the wild in China. Also loudly evident was a pond of loudly calling frogs. Buntings proved to be [B]Black-Faced Bunting and Yellow-Breasted Bunting[/B]. [B]Barn Swallow[/B] were working the sky over the water and from just behind the frog pond I caught a quick glimpse of what looked to be a [B]Purple Heron[/B]. Not a good enough look to be sure though so it was not counted. A brief slightly heavier mist lifted just in time to catch some [B]Red-Flanked Bluetail[/B] and as I was working on counting I was surprised by a shower of [B]Brambling[/B] suddenly pouring out of the low hanging clouds. At least 150 individuals grounded and started feeding. Shortly they were joined by half a dozen [B]Pale Thrush[/B]. The full list is at the end of this. Tomorrow I hope to make it to the Shuangtaizi River Estuary. Weather is supposed to clear and I expect good hunting. XiHu Park, Dawa, Liaoning, China, Liaoning, CN Apr 18, 2016 11:30 AM - 1:45 PM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 kilometer(s) 14 species Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) 1 Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) 1 Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) 6 Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 25 Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) 6 Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) 1 Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus) 4 Dusky Thrush (Turdus eunomus) 6 Yellow-browed Bunting (Emberiza chrysophrys) 4 Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla) 8 Black-faced Bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) 12 Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) 150 Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) 20 View this checklist online at [url]http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29032356[/url] This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 ([url]http://ebird.org[/url]) [/QUOTE]
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