Beijing Botanical Garden
The Beijing Botanical Gardens is a good all-year round birding destination, where you can find some of Beijing’s special birds, including Chinese Nuthatch, Yellow-bellied Tit, Beijing Babbler and Plain Laughingthrush. In winter, it is a good site for waxwings, Siberian Accentor, winter thrushes and buntings.
Lingshan Scenic Area
Lingshan is Beijing’s highest peak at 2,303 metres above sea level. A great site for breeding warblers, flycatchers and thrushes and Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch. In winter a site for Guldenstadt's Redstart, Pallas's Rosefinch, Cinereous Vulture, Asian Rosy Finch.
Shidu
Many Black Storks are living along the river here, because not quite a few tourists and the water is not unfrozen. Other highlights
are including Wallcreeper, Crested Kingfisher, Brown Dipper, Cinereous Vulture, White-capped Water Redstart, Golden Eagle, Crag Martin, Plumbeous Redstart, Long-billed Plover, Alpine
and Siberian Accentor and other small birds.
Summer Palace
Olympic Forest Park
An excellent urban birding site. The wetland area in the southwest of the park can be good all year around. The wooded parts of the park host a
variety of migrants thrushes, flycatchers, buntings, and several species of warbler during the migration seasons.
Yeyahu Nature Reserve & Machang
Yeyahu NR is a wetland park, which have mant trails, ponds and observation towers inside.Ma Chang is a large area of grassland, which is next to
Yeyahu NR. Both here can host a good numbers of birds, including Baer's Pochard, Common and hooded Cranes, Oriental Plover, Relict Gull, Great Bustard, Amur Falcon, Chinese Penduline Tit, Von
Schrenck's Bittern, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Baikal Teal, Great Spotted Eagle, Short-toed Eagle and Saker Falcon.
The only reliable site for Ibisbill in Beijing, but it's not easy in the recent years. Other highlights including Crested Kingfisher, Brown Dipper, Baikal Teal, Beijing Babbler, Golden Eagle, Siberian Accentor etc.
Wenyu River
The area around the paddies are excellent in late Spring (May and early June) for acrocephalus and locustella warblers plus small bitterns (Yellow and Schrenck's) and assorted migrants.
The scrubby areas alongside the river are good for species such as Japanese Quail, buntings, finches etc. A large Daurian Jackdaw roost nearby in winter and waders/ducks on the river. Long-billed
Plover regular in winter/spring/autumn.
In winter, assorted ducks and the occasional swan along here if unfrozen. Also buntings, woodpeckers and kingfishers along here.
Huairou Reservoir
Can be good for diving duck and other wildfowl on spring and autumn. Freezes in winter.
Shahe Reservoir
Good for wildfowl in spring and autumn. Reedy fringes to west good for warblers, rails, crakes etc. River to east also good.