Osaka Nankou Bird Sanctuary 4-30-2012

9:15 - 13:00,  overcast, about 19 degrees C

Birds seen with 2 other members of Beginners' Birdwatching group:

In tide pools and mudflats:

Whimbrel  7

Gray-tailed Tattler  5

Common Greenshank  1

Little Ringed Plover  1,  bathing, and then preening

Little Grebe  3,  fishing

Great Cormorant  3, drying feathers, then preening, and finally fishing

Spot-billed Duck  more than 12 male/female pairs

Little Egret  2, basking

Gray Heron  1, basking

Barn Swallows, more than 3, catching insects above the reeds

In nearby woods:
Rufous Turtle Dove,  more than 4 (plus one clear hybrid between a feral
                               pigeon and a Rufous Turtle Dove (mixed with a flock  
                               of feral pigeons.

Japanese White-eye, more than 5

Barn Swallow,  more than 4

Brown-eared Bulbul, more than 10

Oriental Greenfinch  1 (occupying top spot of tallest pine tree (or cedar tree) on an observation hill in the woods

Carrion Crow:  1 flying, and making a gurgling call (presumably to a mate sitting on eggs in a tall, old pine tree in the woods).