
A nice find near my apartment this afternoon. Although it flew off before I could get a decent pic…
Oriental Reed Warblers used to be common on the river near my apartment, about 7 or 8 singing males or so, but they completely disappeared a couple of years ago.
3 have been singing this spring. At separate locations and not often. Is it just 1 bird moving around? Are they just migrants passing through?
I was surprised to see a pair of Hawfinch taking a bath in the river near my apartment…don’t really see this species much in summer.
There were other birds bathing too:
And using the river’s other facilities..
Other stuff around included lone singing Japanese Bush Warblers and Oriental Reed Warblers (both probably just passing through), Bull-headed Shrike, Asian House Martin and Masked Buntings.
Plus the usual…
A grey overcast day…
Several Japanese Bush Warbler and a couple of Masked Buntings were singing on the riverside near my apartment. The only passage migrant was a lone Asian Brown Flycatcher.
The Chestnut-cheeked Starlings add a bit of east Asian exotica though.
This Night Heron was a nice find on the river near my apartment today.
I’d only been away for a few days and the amount of new greenery is astonishing.
No passage migrants (apart from a lone Dusky Thrush). Common birds only: Bull-headed Shrike, Asian House Martin, Masked Bunting and other even commoner stuff.
2 not very interesting birds from a short stroll this afternoon. I was trying to photograph my first Chestnut-cheeked Starlings of the year but they kept flying off.
Always Dusky Thrush around in spring as well as the ubiquitous Brown-eared Bulbuls.
It was overcast and I was using the RF 600 f/11 again. ISO 1600, I’m too lazy to open Topaz DeNoise for these common birds…plus the new Lightroom AI noise function isn’t that great so I didn’t use that either.