And already it is the end of the month’s work at Nanpu. I feel these Updates are all rather similar but that is one of the strengths of our work here. The repeated visits over 20 years. While not all the visits have been of the same duration or with an identical team, it is still a great data set we have accumulated. We have forged strong bonds with universities and our local colleagues. Xiao Liu is now an integral part of the monitoring effort, and the work would be far less efficient and productive without his contribution. While our work focuses on migrant shorebirds as they pass through the area some migrants come here to breed. We make opportunistic observations of the breeding species. As we walk around the ponds to scan the Red Knots, we are often assailed by alarmed Pied Avocets and Black winged Stilts trying to distract us from their nests or chicks. Kentish Plovers also breed on the bunds, but they tend to just slink quietly off their nests and only do a broken-wing display if we get very close to chicks.