All Things Common

The patch was fairly quiet this morning, so decided to try and count a selection of the common resident and migrant species present and managed the following totals:

Coppersmith Barbet 9

Common Kingfisher 11

Blue-tailed Bee-eater 13

Greater Coucal 9

Plaintive Cuckoo 14

Asian Koel 15

White-breasted Waterhen 9

Moorhen 7

Ruddy-breasted Crake 13

Red-wattled Lapwing 32

Whiskered Tern  21

Little Cormorant 43

Little Egret 103

Great Egret 19

Cattle Egret 57

Pond Heron sp 43

Open-billed Stork 375

Brown Shrike 13

Pied Fantail 15

Taiga Flycatcher 7

Siberian Stonechat 9

Zitting Cisticola 35

Plain Prinia 42

Black-browed Reed Warbler 32

Oriental Reed Warbler 39

Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler 11

Dusky Warbler 27

Yellow-browed Warbler 16

Additional noteworthy species seen included five Painted Snipe, adult Bhraminy Kite, Siberian Rubythroat and a Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher.