Sunny and warm, light northerly winds, almost no cloud. Much reduced visible migration and very few hirundines compared with yesterday. Nevertheless, it was another good day at this special site. Highlights included another White-throated Needletail that came in at nearly head height (see photo), several Japanese Sparrowhawks, a single Chinese Sparrowhawk, several Lanceolated Warblers and an unexpected new bird in the form of a Japanese Grosbeak that was suspected as it flew overhead and identified from photos!
Species List (in chronological order):
Fork-tailed Swift (6)
Yellow-browed Warbler (15)
Asian Brown Flycatcher (10)
Rufous-tailed Robin (1)
Ashy Minivet (3)
Chinese Bulbul (5)
Black-naped Oriole (7) – in off the sea
Brown Shrike (6)
Olive-backed Pipit (5)
Oriental Turtle Dove (2)
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher (3)
Lanceolated Warbler (3)
Oriental Greenfinch (4)
Common Pheasant (4)
Great Tit (6)
Hobby (7)
White-throated Rock Thrush (1)
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (2)
Tristram’s Bunting (1)
Dusky Warbler (4)
Eye-browed Thrush (3)
Common Magpie (36 in the air together off the lighthouse at 0630)
Crested Myna (3)
Chinese Grosbeak (3)
Japanese Grosbeak (1)
Stonechat (3)
Chinese Hill Warbler (2)
Common Buzzard (2)
Two-barred Greenish Warbler (2)
Brambling (4)
Vega Gull (15)
Red-rumped Swallow (50)
Grey-faced Buzzard (1) – first summer?
Goshawk (4)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk (4)
Grey Wagtail (1)
Barn Swallow (128)
Japanese Sparrowhawk (9)
Japanese White-eye (2)
White-eye sp (11)
Vinous-throated Parrotbill (5)
Peregrine (1)
Carrion Crow (1)
Blue Rock Thrush (2)
Sand Martin (15)
Eurasian Cuckoo (1)
Egret sp (Chinese or Little) (1)
Saker (1)
Radde’s Warbler (5)
Chinese Sparrowhawk (1)
Oriental Honey Buzzard (1)
White-throated Needletail (1)
Siberian Rubythroat (1)
Siberian Blue Robin (3)
Chinese Penduline Tit (1)
Amur Falcon (3)
Osprey (1)
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (1)
Wryneck (1)
Thick-billed Warbler (1)
Common Sandpiper (1)
Taiga Flycatcher (3)
Black-browed Reed Warbler (1)
Meadow Bunting (3)
Pallas’s Warbler (1)
Dark-sided Flycatcher (1)
Black-faced Bunting (2)