http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk Birding from around the world Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-from-shanghai-china-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-from-shanghai-china-birding/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2018 04:23:21 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=21399 I recently returned from leading an enjoyable and bird-filled tour to Southeast China where we were able to observe many of Asia’s rarest migratory waterbirds. Our trip consisted of three distinct sections, the first of which took us to coastal wetlands and farmland to the north and Southeast of our starting point, Shanghai, where we [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-from-shanghai-china-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-highlights-of-2017/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-highlights-of-2017/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:19:26 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11892 Happy New Year! I am looking forward to what I have planned ahead in 2018 with a birding trip starting in Northern Thailand in a few days and a two week trip to Myanmar at the end of the month, but I also looked back to some of my birding highlights of 2017. Birding in [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-highlights-of-2017/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/passerine-migrants-near-rudong-china-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/passerine-migrants-near-rudong-china-birding/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:30:48 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11474 Apart from great birds like Courtois’s Laughingthrush, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Cabot’s Tragopan, Reed Parrotbill and Elliot’s Pheasant, one of the main objectives on last month’s tour of SE China was to witness the migration of East Asian passerines, particularly many of those species that can turn up, or potentially turn up, in UK – one might [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/passerine-migrants-near-rudong-china-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/brown-bush-warbler-at-emei-feng-china-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/brown-bush-warbler-at-emei-feng-china-birding/#comments Mon, 29 May 2017 21:13:13 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11463 Although the tour I led to Southeast China last month featured a lot of very colourful and rare birds one of the species I was most keen to see was one of the brownest of “little brown jobs” – Brown Bush Warbler. One might ask why a skulking brown bush warbler would be high on [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/brown-bush-warbler-at-emei-feng-china-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-nanhui-shanghai-china-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-nanhui-shanghai-china-birding/#comments Sun, 14 May 2017 23:05:23 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11380 I recently returned from leading a birding tour to Southeast China where we enjoyed some large numbers of shorebirds, range-restricted forest species and a wide variety of passage migrants. We flew in and out of Shanghai, traveling around this and neighbouring provinces, and one site, just outside of Shanghai provided me with my first birding in [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-nanhui-shanghai-china-birding/feed/ 0