Last year I visited Beijing on late autumn (http://birds.kz/v2blogentry.php?l=ru&a=20151203000501), when there actually was uncharacteristic for Beijing cold and snowly winter. This year I was in Beijing in July, not the best time for birding neither. It was hot almost all the time, thus high humidity, the sun in a haze, whether from a smog, whether from humidity all the time. At the end of my stay it was rainy, but sultry weather still didn't fall down for some reasons.Since the purpose of visit was not birdwatching, my birding was only casual. The most part of time I spent in Shunyi district on the northeast suburb of Beijing, near the airport. Nearby, there was a park where I made morning excursions every day from July 4 to July 16, most often from 7 to 9 o'clock. The park was cultivated, but there wasn't much visitors. On the one hand it is good, birds are not much disturbed, on the other side the birds are not got used to people and not allow as close, as in parks in the center of [...... read more ]

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