Taiwan Day 1, Part 2

We finished the first day birding at the Chingshui Wetland in Jinshan, where in December 2014 a young Siberian Crane had arrived. It proved easily the most productive birding area of the day. Apart from the crane, which has become habituated to a guy who works the paddies, highlights included a female Painted Snipe, a great mass of herons and egrets taking the air, and a distant Long-tailed Shrike.

Siberian Crane... and friend

Spot-billed Duck

Pre-roost departure of mixed egrets and Grey Herons

Intermediate Egret

Crane warning...