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Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 20/08/2012 00:16 Subject: Huiyang County, Dayawan

I've visited today a beach between Dayawan and Heju (Huiyang county about 50 kms from Shenzhen. I saw there 6 Swinhoe's Plover on a small estuary (about 20 meters wide) at the end of the beach.
They are building a hugge hotel complex, and the beach has been totally devasted, they've built a road just on the beach and a small bridge that cross the small estuary. On google map, the image is old enough to have a rough idea of how beautiful this place must have been.
So difficult to said if these birds have bred there, but it is a possibility. The birds was not on the beach, 2 of them was on a small sandy islet in the middle of the estuary very close to the see and 4 others were on a muddflat about 500 meters from the sea along the river. They appears to be all adults, but I've got only my bins with me, so difficult to check properly.
This place is exactly 38 kms far away (by air) from the nearest island from HK, Tung Ping Chau. August is probably the best month to find them outside of their breeding place. They can be found in very small beaches, and they especially like small esturay, even very very small river. All the east side of HK, exposed to the see, is probably the best place to find them, even it seems there is very few available habitat from what can be seen on google earth, anyway it's worth to have a try.

Appart of this 6 plovers was some wonderfull ricefield and paddyfield behind the beach, looks like a small Long Valley. Theres is a nice egretery, with about 400 birds that could be seen around 18:00 and more was coming. Definitly a nice small patch that have to be followed regulary. Below is the today species list :
Black-crowned Night Heron 20
Chinese Pond Heron 15+
Eastern Cattle Egret 250
Intermediate Egret 1
Little Egret 80
Black-winged Kite 1
Black Kite 1
White-breasted Waterhen 1
Little Ringed Plover 3
Kentish Plover Dealbatus 6
Greater Sand Plover 1
Pintail Snipe or Swinhoes 3
Common Greenshank 2
Green Sandpiper 3
Wood Sandpiper 45
Common Sandpiper 5
Spotted Dove 5
Pacific Swift 1
Little Swift 13
White-throated Kingfisher 2
Common Kingfisher 3
Long-tailed Shrike 7
Black Drongo 3
Light-vented Bulbul Sinensis 17
Sooty-headed Bulbul 7
Barn Swallow 6
Red-rumped Swallow 1
Zitting Cisticola 2
Golden-headed Cisticola 1
Plain Prinia 8
Common Tailorbird 2
Crested Myna 14
Black-collared Starling 3
Scaly-breasted Munia2 10+
White Wagtail leucopsis 2

Jonathan

Author: John Holmes Time: 21/08/2012 10:32

Looks like a good place !

Only a matter of time before a "dealbatus" turns up in HK, Jonathan, -

perhaps with your leg-flags on it ?

John

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 21/08/2012 12:31

Hi John,

Yes, definitly a good place, as family can enjoy the very nice beach and me the paddyfield with my bins...so perfect place to mix family trip and birdwatching. But probably not for long as development is allready well advanced there.

All the best,

Jonathan

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 15/09/2012 23:21 Subject: Dayawan Huiyang County near Shenzhen

I've paid a visit again this morning to Dayawan a lovely little coastal farmland about 50 km East of Shenzhen. Hightlight was a Thick-billed Warbler, in the same bush as a female Asian Paradise Flycatcher and 2 Arctic Warbler,2 Grasshoper Warbler flushed in the rice field an Eurasian Collared Dove that could have been well on migration also, a Male Von Shrenck's Bittern, 8 Oriental Pratincol. Full list and a few pictures below.

Von Schrenck's Bittern 1
Cinnamon Bittern 1
Black-crowned Night Heron 4
Chinese Pond Heron 6
Eastern Cattle Egret 46
Little Egret          1
Black-winged Kite 1
Slaty-breasted Rail 1
White-breasted Waterhen 1
Little Ringed Plover 1
Greater Painted Snipe 1
Pintail Snipe or Swinhoe's 2
Whimbrel 1
Common Redshank          1
Common Greenshank 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Oriental Pratincole 8
Eurasian Collared Dove 1
Spotted Dove Guangdong 10
White-throated Kingfisher 2
Common Kingfisher 2
Long-tailed Shrike 3
Black Drongo          8
Asian Paradise-flycatcher 1
Light-vented Bulbul Sinensis 6
Sooty-headed Bulbul 9
Barn Swallow          30+
Red-rumped Swallow 32
Arctic Warbler          2
Oriental Reed Warbler 4
Thick-billed Warbler 1
Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler 2
Zitting Cisticola 19
Yellow-bellied Prinia 1
Plain Prinia          7
Common Tailorbird 4
Masked Laughingthrush 2
Crested Myna 30+
Black-collared Starling 28
White-shouldered Starling 34
Oriental Magpie Robin 1
Eurasian Tree Sparrow 93
Scaly-breasted Munia 8
Eastern Yellow Wagtail 23
White Wagtail leucopsis 2
Richard’s Pipit 5
Grey-capped Greenfinch 13

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Author: lrichard Time: 16/09/2012 10:06

Hi Jonathan

Some great records! As far as I know, these are the first East Guangdong records of Eurasian Collared Dove, Thick-billed Warbler, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler and Grey-capped Greenfinch.

Just to clarify - you found no magpies or crows, right?

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 16/09/2012 11:15

Hi Richard,

Thanks for these informations, I would'nt have expected so much East Guangdong first, especially for the Greenfinch.
Yes as you've noticed, no magpie and no crow, but I was quite surprised of the quantity of Black-collared Starling that I usually never meet in such numbers in Guangdong, more often in pair but this is presumably post-breeding grouping.
I haven't been to the estuary to check wether the Swinhoe's Plover still there or not, but it was hight tide and the farmalnd was so birdy that I've prefered keep concentrated on it.

Could somebody help me, I would like to change the name of this thread by : Huiyang County, Dayawan

Jonathan

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 20/10/2012 23:32 Subject: Dayawan Huiyang County near Shenzhen 20th of october 2012

A short mixed family/birding visit this afternoon to this lovely place, that will probably not longer be so lovely according to the development that is going on actually. They allready filled up with soil some of the fishponds bordering the beach and allready start to build on it.
Hightligth was a Pied Kingfisher, that as far as I remember is only the second one I find along the Guangdong coast. A Swinhoe's Plover female (presumably) was present along the beach, she's got quite a hard life there, alterning between the beach and the small estuary trying to avoid the tourists was there.The farmland was again very birdy, but I haven't got enough time to cover them, good birds includ a Lanceolated Warbler that was showing well, 6 Japanese Quail, my first Eastern Buzzard of the autumn...full list below and a pics of the Swinhoe's Plover.

Chinese Francolin 1
Japanese Quail 6
Black-crowned Night Heron 2
Chinese Pond Heron 6
Little Egret 130
Black-winged Kite 1
Eastern Buzzard Guangdong 1
Kentish Plover Dealbatus 1
Common Snipe 1
Common Greenshank 5
Green Sandpiper 1
Common Sandpiper 4
Oriental Turtle Dove 1
Spotted Dove 2
Greater Coucal 2
Common Kingfisher 3
Pied Kingfisher 1
Long-tailed Shrike 3
Light-vented Bulbul Sinensis 50+
Barn Swallow 12
Red-rumped Swallow 20+
Dusky Warbler 11
Oriental Reed Warbler 2
Lanceolated Warbler 1
Zitting Cisticola 1
Golden-headed Cisticola 1
Plain Prinia 4
Masked Laughingthrush 2
Black-throated Laughingthrush 1
Crested Myna 2
Oriental Magpie Robin 3
Common Stonechat 6
Eurasian Tree Sparrow 13
Scaly-breasted Munia 4
White Wagtail leucopsis 3
Richard’s Pipit Guangdong 16
Olive-backed Pipit 1
Red-throated Pipit 2
Chestnut-eared Bunting 6
Little Bunting Guangdong 2

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Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 4/11/2012 22:06

Dear All,

Below is my trip list to Dayawan of this morning.It was very windy but very birdy also and I spend quite a lot of time searching the pipit and probably missed some other good species, but highlight, appart of the Blyth's Pipit mentionned in an other thread, was a female Russet Sparrow in very good condition and wich show no cage dammage (will post the pictures later. I was thinking that it will be very interesting to compare the Long Valley data with this place as it is a very similar habitat and with no big city around so the chance that cage bird appears there is much more slim than in Long Valley. So I was'nt abble to find any Rustic Bunting today or Rosy Pipit, but this do not means that the HK ones are cage birds:-)
But it will be very interesting to see if I can find any Black-headed Bunting or other suspicious species from Long valley as the Rustic Bunting and others rarities...
An other intresting species, that is quite rare at long valley was 3 Oriental Skylark (pics to be sent later).
I've got a nice group of 25 Chinese Penduline Tit, 5 Greater Painted Snipe, my first Buff-bellied Pipits... for others see below.
Unfortunatly I don't know how long the place will stay so good as the construction are going well there, a new road is on construction, more the size of an Hightway than the acces road that there is actually, and they start to build something along the beach and has cutted some of the trees bordering the farmland...

Eastern Great Egret 9
Little Egret 12
Common Kestrel 1
Greater Painted Snipe 5 2F 3M
Pintail Snipe or Swinhoes 1
Common Snipe 1
Common Greenshank 1
Oriental Turtle Dove 4
Spotted Dove 14
Greater Coucal 1 imm
White-throated Kingfisher 1
Common Kingfisher 2
Eurasian Wryneck 1
Long-tailed Shrike 4 incl one Dusky
Chinese Penduline Tit 25
Eurasian Skylark 7
Oriental Skylark 3
Light-vented Bulbul Sinensis 9
Pale Martin 4
Barn Swallow 4
Red-rumped Swallow 2
Dusky Warbler 6
Yellow-browed Warbler 2
Oriental Reed Warbler 3
Zitting Cisticola 5
Yellow-bellied Prinia 1
Plain Prinia 5
Common Tailorbird 2
Crested Myna 28
Red-billed Starling 12
Black-collared Starling 5
Oriental Magpie Robin 1
Daurian Redstart 3 1M and 2F
Common Stonechat 11
Russet Sparrow 1 F
Eurasian Tree Sparrow 200
Scaly-breasted Munia 19
Eastern Yellow Wagtail sp 3
Eastern Yellow Wagtail macronyx 1
Eastern Yellow Wagtail taivana 1
Grey Wagtail 1
White Wagtail leucopsis 3
White wagtail ocularis 1
Richard’s Pipit 12
Blyth's Pipit 1
Olive-backed Pipit 1
Red-throated Pipit 6
Buff-bellied Pipit 5
Grey-capped Greenfinch 2
Chestnut-eared Bunting 4
Little Bunting 1

All the best,

Jonathan

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 4/11/2012 22:36

sorry forget the below species on my list.
DO ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS THREAD THAT IS NOT VERY APPROPRIATE?

Japanese Quail 7
Chinese Pond Heron 3
Eastern Cattle Egret 2
Grey Heron 8

All the best,

Jonathan

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 4/11/2012 22:37

sorry the letters are a big bigger than my expectations:-) Anyway, thanks if anybody have the answer.

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 6/11/2012 11:20

here are the pictures of the female Russet Sparrow, one of the Oriental Skylark and a Red-throated Pipit that was showing well.

All the best,

Jonathan

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Author: HKBWS Bonnie Time: 6/11/2012 11:58

Please click on "Edit" at right bottom of your thread; then you may edit the title.

[quote]DO ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS THREAD THAT IS NOT VERY APPROPRIATE? [quote]

Author: HKBWS Bonnie Time: 6/11/2012 12:15

Please click "Edit" at right bottom of your thread; then you may edit the title.

[quote]DO ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS THREAD THAT IS NOT VERY APPROPRIATE? [quote]

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 6/11/2012 12:33

Thanks a lot membership, you can not imagine how much time I've spent searching for this.

All the best,

Jonathan

Author: HKBWS Bonnie Time: 6/11/2012 12:54

FYI...

HKBWS Forum User Guide
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/view ... &extra=page%3D1

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 6/11/2012 13:13

usefull link, thanks for this again.

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 10/11/2012 01:01 Subject: House Sparrow at Dayawan Huiyang County near Shenzhen 09th of November 2012

I've paid a visit again to my local patch this morning, one of the reason was to try to resight the Blyth's Pipit, the other one being I was intrigue to see wether or not I could find some of the interesting species seen in Long Valley recently.
I haven't been succesfull with the Pipit, but I found a nice male House Sparrow in a group of about 40 Tree Sparrows (see pics below). So I guess that Paul Leader's suggestion about the possibility of the birds recently seen in Long Valley and this one belonging to the migrant race "bactrianus" seems to be quite a good one... This bird seems to be the first for the Guangdong province, and I have to said that it was the first time I enjoyed so much to find and see this species:-)
This morning was some obvious migration of Chinese Bulbul, with a few group seen flying over the famrland, from a few birds up to flock of 100 birds, 3 Swinhoe's Plover was on the beach, 1 Japanese Sparrowhawk flew over the farmland...See below for the full species list seen this morning.

Japanese Quail 11
Black-crowned Night Heron 14
Chinese Pond Heron 4
Grey Heron 4
Eastern Great Egret 1
Little Egret 34
Japanese Sparrowhawk 1
White-breasted Waterhen 1
Kentish Plover Dealbatus 3
Common Greenshank 4
Green Sandpiper 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Spotted Dove 11
Greater Coucal 2
White-throated Kingfisher 2
Common Kingfisher 3
Eurasian Wryneck 1
Long-tailed Shrike 4
Cinereous Tit ssp cinereus 1
Chinese Penduline Tit heard
Eurasian Skylark 1
Oriental Skylark 2
Red-whiskered Bulbul 2
Light-vented Bulbul Sinensis 301
Sooty-headed Bulbul ssp chrysorrhoides 4
Red-rumped Swallow 7
Dusky Warbler 16
Yellow-browed Warbler 1
Oriental Reed Warbler 1
Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler 1
Zitting Cisticola 5
Golden-headed Cisticola 2
Plain Prinia 17
Common Tailorbird 1
Masked Laughingthrush 3
Japanese White-eye 20+
Crested Myna 39
Red-billed Starling 2
Black-collared Starling 24
Common Blackbird 5
Siberian Rubythroat 2
Oriental Magpie Robin 5
Daurian Redstart 3
Common Stonechat 15
House Sparrow 1
Eurasian Tree Sparrow 184
Scaly-breasted Munia 55
Eastern Yellow Wagtail sp 1
White Wagtail leucopsis 6
Richard’s Pipit 11
Olive-backed Pipit 12
Red-throated Pipit 3
Chestnut-eared Bunting 8
Little Bunting 2
Yellow-breasted Bunting 2
Black-faced Bunting 3

All the best,

Jonathan

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Author: gary Time: 10/11/2012 20:04

Interesting House Sparrow,
Just 50km further south would be the first record for HK.

The Russet Sparrow is of interest. All Russet Sparrow in HK are now considered as from escaped population; but it worths to re-assess if it proves a wild population not far from HK.

Author: brendank Time: 10/11/2012 21:07

I am rather struck on this House Sparrow and also on the male that has been in Long Valley how pale the bill is. Most male House Sparrows I have seen in United States have all black bills. I wonder if that is a feature of bactrianus.

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 10/11/2012 22:37

About Russet Saprrow, In Guangxi or in Hunan, I often found very isolated population even in lowland, they are often in farmland not near habitation, especially near ricefield, where Tree Sparrow are exclusively near habitation. So it is very likely that some isolated population exist somewhere in Guangdong where people do not go often birding. It is also probably the case for the Crested Bunting as well, they should very likely breed somewhere in Guangdong, in Guangxi both species clearly have some post-breeding movment, mainly searching for places with food and in winter I often only see them near ricefield.

About the House Sparrow, bactrianus is given breeding in Xinjiang, I think the arrival of this birds at the same time of the Red-backed Shrike make quite sense.

All the best,

Jonathan

Author: ajohn Time: 11/11/2012 15:14

The pale bill is a feature of winter House Sparrows. I don't think it has any taxonomic significance (as far as I am aware).
Looking at photos online, the Long Valley bird looks to me more like a domesticus-type, this one looks more like an indicus/bactrianus. Make of that what you will.

Jonathan, are you claiming the Collared Dove as wild as well? So you have recorded three species that are currently treated as escapes in HK, is that correct?

Author: brendank Time: 11/11/2012 20:44

John, what feature allow for separation between domesticus-type and bactrianus? I haven't found much literature on this.

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 12/11/2012 01:00

the only things I found is that House Sparrow is separate in two main group domesticus and indicus, bactrianus belong to indicus group. Birds from the indicus should be whiter cheeks. Bactrianus is said to be larger and more pale than others from the same group.
There is also parkini subspecies from western Himalaya that is migrant, but should show a more extensive black on the bib.

There is two things that struck me on the bird from Dayawan, it is the fine black line bordered the upper cheeks and the very pale grey on crown and nape. But I wasn't abble to find anymore about bactrianus description. Size is difficult to judge since it is not given in many places to compare tree and house Sparrow in the same flock, but I would like to say that this bird looks paler than the House Sparrow I have in my garden in France...Agree with John, that the pale bill refer to bird in winter.

About this 3 species often threated as escapee in HK, well one of the advantage of Dayawan is that it is quite far from any big cities, and this is quite a small area, for the moment I still haven't been abble to resight any of this birds a second time. It means these birds are very likely on movment.
I allready give my opinion about Russet Sparrow, I don't know what is the nearest known population, but I wont be surprised there is some unknown isolated population somewhere not very far from here.
About the Eurasian Turtle Dove, well it is a bird known to extent its range, the bird I saw had a typical migrant comportment, I remember have seen it arriving from very far landed on the electric wire for a moment and then flying away quite far again. So I see no reason why this bird could not be of a wild origin, there are not seen elswhere in Shenzhen, and in HongKong the local population still seems to be very restricted to a few area including Mai Po, where I reguraly saw them.
About the House Sparrow, I'm a kind of optimist guy, and the fact that birds has been allready found in two distant different locations at a similar period where there is no previous records, make me believe that they are very likely of wild origin, especially since no one of these birds shows cage dammaged feathers. In the case that some birds would have been release, I see no reason that 2 of them stay in Long Valley and that some others moove 50 kms away...
One thing is sure, is that I will check every Tree Sparrow group this winter, in Guangdong or even in Guangxi to see wether it is isolated sightings or a more general events...
Finally, all of this 3 species has been seen in Autumn, I would probably had a different opinion if would have been in summer for example.

All the best,

Jonathan

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 12/11/2012 22:36

to keep the discussion going on, below is the link to a picture of a bird found on Heuksan do Island in Korea on may 2006.

http://www.birdskorea.org/Galler ... er-domesticus.shtml

All the best,

Jonathan

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 9/12/2012 00:49 Subject: Huiyang Dayawan and Yiliancun, 08th of december 2012

Very pleasant and birdy day. Spent quite a lot of time to spot again the big group of Eurasian Tree Sparrow, but nothing in particular inside. Highlight was an Osprey flying along the beach in the morning, 1 Black-tailed Godwit with a Spotted Redshank. Seems that a lot of Bright-capped Cisticola arrived since my last visit, with a total of 17 different birds, 11 at Dayawan and 6 at a new spot distant of a 2 or 3 kms. The place is named Yiliancun (this is the nearest village name), there is a big field that only a very little part is cultivated, with a small river bordered of trees and Bamboos. Hightlight in this new place was a Speckled Piculet seen in very short distance foraging on a tall of bamboos, this is the way I found it, other good bird was a Thick-bill Warbler near the same area, a Black-naped Monarch and a chestnut Bulbul. Full list below.

All the best,

Jonathan

Japanese Quail Dayawan 08 december 2012 13
Chinese Pond Heron Dayawan 08 december 2012 7
Grey Heron Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Eastern Great Egret Dayawan 08 december 2012 18
Little Egret Dayawan 08 december 2012 4
Western Osprey Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Black-winged Kite Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
Black-winged Kite Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Common Kestrel Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Common Kestrel Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Common Snipe Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
Common Snipe Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Black-tailed Godwit Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Spotted Redshank Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Common Greenshank Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
Green Sandpiper Dayawan 08 december 2012 3
Green Sandpiper Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Oriental Turtle Dove Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Spotted Dove Dayawan 08 december 2012 12
Spotted Dove Yiliancun 08 december 2012 17
Greater Coucal Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
White-throated Kingfisher Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
White-throated Kingfisher Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Common Kingfisher Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Common Kingfisher Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Speckled Piculet Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Grey-chinned Minivet Yiliancun 08 december 2012 6
Long-tailed Shrike Dayawan 08 december 2012 4
Long-tailed Shrike Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Black-naped Monarch Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Cinereous Tit ssp cinereus Yiliancun 08 december 2012 4
Eurasian Skylark Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
Oriental Skylark Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Red-whiskered Bulbul Yiliancun 08 december 2012 3
Light-vented Bulbul Sinensis Dayawan 08 december 2012 70
Light-vented Bulbul Sinensis Yiliancun 08 december 2012 15
Sooty-headed Bulbul ssp chrysorrhoides Dayawan 08 december 2012 5
Chestnut Bulbul Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Red-rumped Swallow Dayawan 08 december 2012 25
Red-rumped Swallow Yiliancun 08 december 2012 8
Manchurian Bush Warbler Yiliancun 08 december 2012 2
Dusky Warbler Dayawan 08 december 2012 7
Dusky Warbler Yiliancun 08 december 2012 4
Yellow-browed Warbler Dayawan 08 december 2012 9
Yellow-browed Warbler Yiliancun 08 december 2012 5
Thick-billed Warbler Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Zitting Cisticola Dayawan 08 december 2012 4
Golden-headed Cisticola Dayawan 08 december 2012 11
Golden-headed Cisticola Yiliancun 08 december 2012 6
Yellow-bellied Prinia Yiliancun 08 december 2012 2
Plain Prinia Dayawan 08 december 2012 13
Plain Prinia Yiliancun 08 december 2012 6
Common Tailorbird Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
Common TailorbirdYiliancun 08 december 2012 5
Masked Laughingthrush Yiliancun 08 december 2012 7
Japanese White-eye Yiliancun 08 december 2012 2
Crested Myna Dayawan 08 december 2012 18
Crested Myna Yiliancun 08 december 2012 4
White-cheeked Starling Dayawan 08 december 2012 30+
Black-collared Starling Dayawan 08 december 2012 25
Black-collared Starling Yiliancun 08 december 2012 8
Grey-backed Thrush Yiliancun 08 december 2012 2
Japanese Thrush Yiliancun 08 december 2012 1
Common Blackbird Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Oriental Magpie Robin Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Oriental Magpie Robin Yiliancun 08 december 2012 2
Daurian Redstart Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
Daurian Redstart Yiliancun 08 december 2012 4
Common Stonechat Dayawan 08 december 2012 14
Common Stonechat Yiliancun 08 december 2012 6
Fork-tailed Sunbird Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Fork-tailed Sunbird Yiliancun 08 december 2012 2
Eurasian Tree Sparrow Dayawan 08 december 2012 400 to 500
Eurasian Tree Sparrow Yiliancun 08 december 2012 30
Scaly-breasted Munia Dayawan 08 december 2012 15
Eastern Yellow Wagtail Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
Grey Wagtail Dayawan 08 december 2012 1
White Wagtail leucopsis Dayawan 08 december 2012 9
Richard’s Pipit Dayawan 08 december 2012 12
Richard’s Pipit Yiliancun 08 december 2012 6
Olive-backed Pipit Dayawan 08 december 2012 15
Olive-backed Pipit Yiliancun 08 december 2012 4
Red-throated Pipit Dayawan 08 december 2012 25
Grey-capped Greenfinch Dayawan 08 december 2012 2
Chestnut-eared Bunting Dayawan 08 december 2012 17
Chestnut-eared Bunting Yiliancun 08 december 2012 5
Little Bunting Dayawan 08 december 2012 12
Little Bunting Yiliancun08 december 2012 2
Yellow-breasted Bunting Dayawan 08 december 2012 3
Chestnut Bunting Dayawan 08 december 2012 3
Black-faced Bunting Dayawan 08 december 2012 2

Author: lrichard Time: 9/12/2012 10:06

Great list of birds yesterday and matching what's happening here in Hong Kong in a very good late autumn/early winter.

I think you have three more new species for Eastern Guangdong: Speckled Piculet, Black-naped Monarch and Chestnut Bulbul.

Richard

Author: Jonathmartinez Time: 21/01/2013 00:50

I've spend all morning in Huiyang county at Dayawan and Yiliancun. At Dayawan, development is going incredibly quickly and there is now 2 more road that are cuting throught the farmland.
It was hell-like birdwatching,with diggers and this very big hammer that putting the hugge pole in the ground to stabylise the construction, but despite all this noise and the habitat that start to reducing it was incredibly birdy. Highlight was 5 Common Starling, they seems to be more common this year, I saw another group of 4 last week near Kaiping.
They were with a flock of White-cheeked Starling, including one bird that has been rusty colored, and this is my first proove of an ex-captive bird in this area, but it may come from quite far as well...and may have been release elsewhere than here.
I then moove again to Yiliancun where I spotted the small river, it was much more quiet, best bird being a female Brown-headed Trush...I don't know if it is the explication why it was so quiet , but I then found 8 lines of illegal mistnets bordering some farmland from wich I release 2 Light-vented Bulbul... Not so lucky I then found a dead Long-tailed Shrike on a mistnet that was on the ground. I neutralyse the most dangerous mistnets and moove away as a old woman was probably insulting me (well I suppose).
On the way back to Shenzhen, I was abble to spotted 10 more line of mistnets along the highway...

Below full list of this morning, and I will send late a few horror pictures...

All the best,
Jonathan

Japanese Quail Dayawan 3
Chinese Pond Heron Dayawan 7
Black-winged Kite Dayawan 1
Common Greenshank Dayawan 1
Oriental Turtle Dove Dayawan 60
Spotted Dove Dayawan 17
Emerald Dove Yiliancun 1
Greater Coucal Dayawan 1
Lesser Coucal Dayawan 1 Juv
Asian Barred Owlet Yiliancun 1
White-throated Kingfisher Dayawan 3
Common Kingfisher Dayawan 1
Long-tailed Shrike Dayawan 3
Long-tailed Shrike Yiliancun 4
Black Drongo Dayawan 1
Cinereous Tit cinereus Yiliancun 2
Oriental Skylark Dayawan 3
Red-whiskered Bulbul Yiliancun 3
Light-vented Bulbul sinensis Dayawan 16
Light-vented Bulbul sinensis Yiliancun 4
Sooty-headed Bulbul Dayawan 3
Red-rumped Swallow Yiliancun 4
Dusky Warbler Dayawan 2
Dusky Warbler Yiliancun 3
Pallas’s Leaf Warbler Yiliancun 1
Yellow-browed Warbler Dayawan 2
Two-barred Warbler Yiliancun 1
Zitting Cisticola Dayawan 4
Golden-headed Cisticola Dayawan 7
Plain Prinia Dayawan 2
Common Tailorbird Yiliancun 3
Masked Laughingthrush Dayawan 2
Masked Laughingthrush Yiliancun 6
Japanese White-eye Dayawan 6
Crested Myna Dayawan 23
White-cheeked Starling Dayawan 21 including one bird has been colored and released
Black-collared Starling Dayawan 19
Common Starling Dayawan 5
Blue Whistling Thrush Yiliancun 1
Grey-backed Thrush Yiliancun 5
Common Blackbird Yiliancun 1
Brown-headed Thrush Yiliancun 1 F
Daurian Redstart Yiliancun 1 M
Common Stonechat Dayawan 7
Common Stonechat Yiliancun 1
Fork-tailed Sunbird Yiliancun 1 M
Eurasian Tree Sparrow Dayawan 350
Scaly-breasted Munia Dayawan 215
White Wagtail leucopsis Dayawan 2
White Wagtail ocularis Dayawan 1
White Wagtail leucopsis Yiliancun 1
White Wagtail ocularis Yiliancun 1
Richard’s Pipit Dayawan 3
Olive-backed Pipit Dayawan 6
Olive-backed Pipit Yiliancun 7
Red-throated Pipit Dayawan 4
Grey-capped Greenfinch Dayawan 26
Chestnut-eared Bunting Dayawan 6
Little Bunting Dayawan 15
Black-faced Bunting Dayawan 4
Black-faced Bunting Yiliancun 1

Author: cgeoff Time: 21/01/2013 08:54

Jonathan,

We get coloured White-shouldered Starlings quite often in HK. I don't think they are ex-captive, or have been dyed by humans. What would be the reason?

Geoff

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