Red River Island

Revisiting Red River Island this morning. The Island keeps changing, but luckily the little forest ist still there and was the best part. No pics, sorry (I can do only crappy ones anyway), just a short list:
Yellow Bittern, Chinese Pond Heron, Back-shouldered Kite, 2 male Pied Harriers, beautiful!, 1 female Hen Harrier (?) with a big Rat, Common Sandpiper, Oriental Pratincole, Spotted Dove, Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Pied Kingfisher, 2 Burmes Shrikes, Black-naped Monarch, Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher, Sooty-headed Bulbul, Red-whiskered B., Dusky Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Arctic Warbler, a Seicercus Warbler, 2 singing Manchurian Reed Warblers, Lanceolated Warbler, Zitting Cisticola, Plain and Yellow-bellied Prinias all over the place, a nice male Yellow-rumped Fly, Taiga Fly, a pair of Bluethroats, Mynas flying over, pobably Crested, White Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipits.

Very nice morning!
Florian

Red river island, 16-4-11

Hi all, An excellent morning was spent on the island today, covering the corn fields and the little patch of forest. The more notable species were, - 1 Manchurian Reed Warbler (heard singing in one of the weed fields on the plain between the woodland and the banana plantation and brief views) - 1 Yellow-streaked Warbler (singing in the woodland) - 1 probable Baikal Bush Warbler - 1 Chestnut-winged Cuckoo - 1 male Burmese Shrike - 2 Mugimaki Flycatchers - 1 Manchurian Bush Warbler - 1 Orange-headed Thrush - Luscinia-galore: couple of Bluethroats, Siberian Rubythroats and a fine male Siberian Blue Robin - Phylloscs: Radde's, Dusky, Two-barred Greenish, Arctic, Yellow-browed, Eastern Crowned, Greenish, Pale-legged plus the above mentioned Yellow-streaked - at least 2 Black-faced Buntings - 2 Little Buntings plus nice sightings of a gorgeous breeding-plumaged Citrine Wagtail and Red-throated Pipit, 2 Black-naped Orioles, Black-shouldered Kites, a chorus of White-breasted Waterhens, lots of Black-naped Monarchs and red-throated Taiga Flycatchers, 1 Oriental Turtle Dove and a big flock of Scaly-breasted Munias. Wow, that's actually a lot of birds (not mentioning the commoner species)! Did I forget anything, Simon? Cheers, Simon and Falk