Bird news from Subhojit Chakladar<\/p>\n
A quick visit to the the reservoir in the afternoon resulted in some decent birds. With a thick blanket of snow all around, the going was a bit slow but the open areas of the stream feeding the reservoir attracted species like White Wagtails<\/strong> lugens<\/em>, Common Sandpipers<\/strong> and Buff-bellied Pipits<\/strong>. The scrubs surrounding the stream supported a playful flock of Hawfinches<\/strong> which seems to be overwintering at the spot (a birder from Hong Kong visiting the reservoir 3 weeks before reported about 10 of them). There was a single Long-billed Plover<\/strong> which seemed quite oblivious of my presence as I walked along the embankment. Rustic Buntings<\/strong> and Yellow-throated Buntings<\/strong> were also present in quite large numbers.<\/p>\n On the fields on the western edge of the reservoir, an Eastern Buzzard<\/strong> appeared for a brief interval. There were flocks of Bramblings<\/strong>, a few Bean Geese<\/strong>, some Carrion Crows<\/strong>, Great Tits<\/strong> and Marsh Tits<\/strong> as well. There was also a Naumann’s Thrush<\/strong> and a couple of Daurian Redstarts<\/strong>. Right before sunset, a pair of unidentified species of Snipe were seen flying across the fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird news from Subhojit Chakladar A quick visit to the the reservoir in the afternoon resulted in some decent birds. With a thick blanket of snow all around, the going was a bit slow but the open areas of the … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-7078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-uiwang-reservoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}