Quiet morning on the patch  with only a few winter visitors in evidence: two Taiga and two Asian Brown Flies, one Brown Shrike, two Black-naped Orioles and a single Radde's Warbler. Of the five or so Pond Herons seen all were Chinese in varying degrees of summer dress. The only other notables were a couple of Asian Barred Owlets and brief views of a Yellow Bittern.