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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
30 December 2007 Having had several unsuccessful outings over the holiday period I decided I had to be a bit more scientific (and maybe become a real twitcher by going a bit further afield for a bird than I would normally) if I was going to hit 200 birds in the UK with just 2 days to go...- ChinaBirds
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- Forum: Member's Lists 2007
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
9 December 2007 Although Birdguides didn't indicate that the Slavonian Grebe recorded yesterday was still around I took a stab at making the 30 mile drive to Blithfield Reservoir this afternoon, my first visit to the Staffordshire Reservoir. It was a typical wet and windy November day as I...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
5 December 2007 A quick visit to Williamthorpe Nature Reserve for a very accommodating Long Tail Duck, my 197th UK bird of the year 396.Long Tailed Duck-------------Williamthorpe NR-------------England- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
1 December 2007 (continued) Once in the reserve, which is entered by negotiating a large levee, Greater White Fronted Geese and Redshanks were the main birds, with the odd Hen Harrier quartering the reeds. After a long drive, along a gravel track, the road climbed onto a large island where we...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
1 December 2007 Last evening Lool (a well known lady birder from Guangzhou), Joseph Yang (another Rolls-Royce rep), our taxi driver Mr Ming and I drove the 350km from Wuhan to Yongxiu in Jiangxi Province, the first time Joseph and I had visited Jiangxi. The hotel (Photo1) we found, which was...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
25 November 2007 It was a slightly earlier start on Sunday morning, with Fred Li (another Rolls-Royce Rep) joining Yan Shen and I for the trip to the Shidu canyon south of Beijing. First though we had to find where Mr Wu (known as CCCP!?), who currently works for the World Wildlife Fund here in...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
24 November 2007 (Continued)... At Guan Ting Reservoir I was amazed at the number of Common Cranes (Photos1-3) covering the marshlands. I had previously only ever seen four birds in flight in Norfolk, Stubb Mill earlier this year. We estimated there had to be at least 500 birds of the ones we...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
24 November 2007 With the thermometer barely above zero degrees Yan Shen (Rolls-Royce's Senior Rep in Beijing), Mr Li, a very good birding friend and I left the Sheraton Great Wall Hotel in Beijing at 8am to pick up Mr Liu, another birder who has just completed his “Black Grouse” degree in...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
28 October 2007 A mid morning (I love it when the clocks go back!) visit to Rutland Water and Eyebrook Reservoir sprung a very late Artic Tern, which gave me my 196th UK bird of the year, just four to go! 378.Arctic Tern ---------------Rutland Water---------------------England Next birding...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
27 October 2007 When I awoke at 0800 hours on Saturday morning I didn’t even know I had a birding weekend ahead of me. Within ten minutes of being awake it was agreed with my wife (Sue) that it would be better for me to visit my mother, rather than her visit us on this occasion, and so I soon...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
7 October 2007 Thanks to Birdguides made a dusk raid (pun intended!) on Netherfield Lagoons near Nottingham and picked up my first UK Dusky Warbler, bringing my UK total to 191 for the year, nine to go for my target of 200. Made up for my car making funny noises so cancelling a trip to Rutland...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
23 September 2007 Back in the UK it was an early rise on Sunday morning, as I was still on China time. I took advantage of the time to write up my birding antics in China for Birdforum, and then checked the local birding websites where it was reported that there was a Long Tailed Skua at...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
20 September 2007 After working in Beijing and Tianjin, I flew into Hong Kong on Thursday 20 September ready for my flight home on Friday. Later that afternoon there was enough time to do some quick birding with Birdforum member MkinHK, in Long Valley thanks to Jason Zhang, who provided the...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
16 September 2007 After flying to Beijing the previous evening, Fred Li (photo1), Yan Shen and I joined up with our old bird friends Mr Li and Ge Ge (Miss) together with a couple of new birders to visit Feng Hou Tai Yi Zhe Park and Guan Ting Reservoir to the north west of Beijing. Held up by...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
15 September 2007 After a quick visit to Xian on Thursday, flying in from Haikou that morning, and then flying onto Shanghai that afternoon I found myself back at Binhai, near Shanghai’s Pudong Airport on Saturday morning. My first visit had been in September 2006, five days earlier in the...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
12 September 2007 Having spent a few days in Guangzhou, China I flew down to Haikou on Hainan Island where I was able to do some quick birding after my business meeting on Wednesday, around my usual haunt, the rivers, fish ponds and farm land across the road from the Sheraton Hotel situated on...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
1 September 2007 Following a lean month of birding, my mate Daz and I made a trip to Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire and as well as ride on the Yorkshire Bell boat out Bridlington on an RSPB Skua and Shearwater cruise. It was a glorious Saturday, on the first day of September. The cliffs at...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
1 July 2007 (continued) Later that morning just before we had to return down the chair lift, Albert caught some well deserved rest while I investigated a new part of the trail. Down a steep slope two young Chinese Babax were playing in a tree while deeper in the forest a male and female Rufous...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
30 June 2007 (continued) Just got to add two photo’s taken by Albert of myself in the main room and one of the bedrooms we slept in that night, what a great place! 1 July 2007 A new month and what a start, a Mountain Scops Owl, a lifer, calling just outside my bedroom window at 0530, with...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
30 June 2007 (continued) The next three birds took some identifying initially as I had never seen them before, all being lifers, but after some investigation work as they moved through the canopy they were all ticked, all wonderful birds in their own right. Only managed to get reasonable...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
30 June 2007 Albert Jiang and I set off at 8am on a beautiful morning from Lijiang, heading towards Dali in Yunnan province. After a couple of hours driving along the valley we stopped of near a small fishing pond and quarry close to a mountain, where there were a number of Burmese Shrike’s...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
26 June 2007 (Continued) At the bottom of the chair lift a couple of Large Billed Crows were moving between the pine trees 315.Large Billed Crow-------------Lijiang------------------China 29 June 2007 With the Conference and Away Day finished by Friday lunch time it was time for some more...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
26 June 2007 A Russet Sparrow was feeding young in a nest, down a large piece of Bamboo, supporting a sappling at the foot of the Black Dragon Mountain near Lijiang. 312.Russett Sparrow----------------Lijiang------------------China Taking a chair lift to over 4,000 metres to a glacier, Alpine...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
25 June 2007 While waiting for the conference room to open, on the first morning of my latest trip to China, at the Guanfang Hotel in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, we made a quick visit to Elephant Hill at the eastern edge of Black Dragon Pool Park as recommended by MikeinHK. First new bird of the...- ChinaBirds
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China Birds (Nick Sismey) 2007 List
3 June 2007 A second trip to the Goyt Valley, on a beautiful spring morning, produced the Wood Warbler I had failed to pick up a couple of weeks earlier. It even allowed a quick photo. 307.Wood Warbler-------------------Goyt Valley------------------England Later in the day a juvenile Ring...- ChinaBirds
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