I checked out a ‘new’ site at the Sun River (Sun He) this morning for a couple of hours. The walk, along the southern bank of the river, was pleasant by Beijing city standards and meandered past a disused golf course, a few paddies, an apparent landfill tip and some recycling plants. It produced some birds, highlights being 4 Long-billed Plovers, 4 Grey-headed Lapwings, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Black-winged Stilts, 3 Hoopoes, 8 Buff-bellied Pipits and 18 White Wagtails, mostly of the subspecies leucopsis but including one adult male ocularis.
Full Species List
Mallard 12
Pintail 2
Eurasian Teal 41
Grey Heron 14
Little Egret 5
Kestrel 1
Common (Eastern) Buzzard 3
Black-winged Stilt 4
Grey-headed Lapwing 4
Long-billed Plover 4
Little Ringed Plover 2
Common Snipe 8
Green Sandpiper 6
Oriental Turtle Dove 2
Hoopoe 3
Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker 2
Grey-headed Woodpecker 2
Rook 3
Carrion Crow 10
Great Tit 2
Barn Swallow 22
Skylark 4
Chinese Bulbul 4
Vinous-throated Parrotbill 4
Crested Myna 6
White-cheeked Starling 22
Naumann’s Thrush 5
Daurian Redstart 2
White Wagtail 18 (17 ssp leucopsis, 1 ssp ocularis)
Buff-bellied Pipit 8
Little Bunting 12
Pallas’s Bunting 3