26/9/09 Out at 5.15am to a N2 breeze and cloud cover being a much cooler dawn. Sunny and hot by midday with the wind freshening to NE3. An influx of wildfowl with 5 Mandarin the highlight. A flock of 50 Eye-browed Thrushes were seen to arrive on the island. At least 7 Great White Egrets were seen to arrive from the south west. Another rarity found in the form of another Lesser Whitethroat accompanying a flock of Japanese White-eyes near the NTT tower.
Lesser Cuckoo along the western perimter track shortly after dawn
Juvenile Far Eastern Curlew along the western shore
Adult Richard's Pipit at the south west beach
Female Blue Rock Thrush along the western shore
Great White Egret arriving on the island from the south west
Lesser Whitethroat near the NTT tower - a second individual
Brown Flycather near the NTT tower
Grey-sided Flycatcher near the NTT tower
Jellyfish near the northern shrine
Grasshopper near the northern shrine
Juvenile Chinese Grosbeak near the NTT tower
Sunset along the western shore
Species noted:
Streaked Shearwater 250
Japanese Cormorant 1
Night Heron 1
Eastern Reef Egret 1
Great White Egret 7
Grey Heron 4
Mandarin Duck 5
Teal 7
Mallard 1
Spotbill Duck 4
Black-eared Kite 3
Peregrine 1
Pacific Golden Plover 1
Common Snipe 1
Far Eastern Curlew 1
Common Sandpiper 1
Grey-tailed Tattler 1
Black-tailed Gull 100
Slaty-backed Gull 1
Rufous Turtle Dove 9
Lesser Cuckoo 1
Common Kingfisher 1
Sand Martin 1
Richard's Pipit 1
Grey Wagtail 6
Black-backed Wagtail 25
Brown-eared Bulbul 4
Siberian Stonechat 1
Blue Rock Thrush 15
White's Thrush 1
Eye-browed Thrush 54
Dusky Thrush 1
Japanese Bush Warbler 5
Middendorff's Warbler 7
Arctic Warbler 4
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 1
Dark-sided Flycatcher 1
Grey-streaked Flycatcher 2
Brown Flycatcher 5
Japanese White-eye 6
Bull-headed Shrike 1
Large-billed Crow 4
Brambling 26
Oriental Greenfinch 50
Common Rosefinch 3
Chinese Grosbeak 3
Black-faced Bunting 12
Little Bunting 14
