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Recent content by norm farrell

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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Zai jian, Ng Tung Chai Hi, Mike, I hadn't looked in on your postings for a while, and had that sudden vague feeling in my stomach this morning when I discovered that you had really left your valley. I went down to Hong Kong late every winter for five or six years in the early '90s and...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Zai jian, Ng Tung Chai ?? Hi, Mike, I concur with Gretchen. To me, a "stay of execution" would be discovering that one (you) didn't have to move after all and that the three-hour (?) commute to the airport was worth it after all !! I know you will miss your valley home and birding grounds -...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    And quiet reigned over Ng Tung Chai ... Mike, Nothing soaring, fluttering, flapping, swooping, skimming over you? Nothing creeping, crawling, slithering, scampering, scurrying under you? No moonrise, no sunsets, no gales, no zephyrs? No cuckoos, no cobras, no finches (crested!), no...
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    USA Grand Tour

    Dyke Marsh / Huntley Meadows Hi Mike, As I say, if you look up Virginia Birding you will see a lot of postings, and if you make a plea for someone to show you around, I'd bet someone would offer. Failing that, take the yellow metro line to the Huntington terminus and catch a taxi to either...
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    USA Grand Tour

    Birding in D.C. area Hey Mike! I seem to be the last to know where you were (are) (( for which, thanks Gretchen)) and hope you are still in D.C. because that is where I come from and I have a couple ideas of places for you, although I guess you researched before you left. Anyhow ... In...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Quiet days in Ng Tung Chai ... Hi Mike, No word for awhile. Hope things are going so well that there's just no time to come inside to the keyboard!! Best, Norm
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Happiness is relative ... Hi Mike, Enjoyed your enthusiasm on seeing the Japanese Grosbeak! Do hope, what with the hard pumping heart and raw jagged breath, that the few neck twists were on the part of the grosbeak and not you! I remember some year back how excited I was when I first saw a...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    So far, so good, Mike! Don't hobble any faster than you have to, though. Best, Norm
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Hi Mike, Like many others, I am sure, I have been checking this page for further news about your mishap the other day. Do hope the hospital results are favorable and that all this is (somehow) soon past, and that you are in business again discovering and reporting on the winged doings of your...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Hi Mike, Very sorry to hear of your scary mishap. Maybe you could reroute your next visiting serpent to the neighbor's house of your choice. In Hong Kong is there any satisfactory recourse in a case like this? Too, maybe in the future you could carry a water pistol with liquid deterrent...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Hi Mike, I hope that stream of Chestnut Bulbuls didn't get too battered going over the falls! On a different note, I was just reading about the Smew (re your 19 December posting) and I'd say poor Andy Li pulled the roof down on his head. Happy holidays (with lots more birds to tell us...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Okra-like yellow flower Hi Mike, I was straightening up a heap of books yesterday, naturally dawdling by looking into them as I did so, and happened to open one on gardening to a page with a photograph of the very flower we were wondering about several weeks ago. I then checked on the...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    yellow flower ??? Hi Mike, I should have quit when I was ahead (michelia). The one one the left with the maroon throat looks like some sort of mallow (malvia) species. My first thought was okra, but the flowers for that are white, and the leaves are different. Cute flycatcher pic, though...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Name of flower pictured in 21 May posting Hi Mike, Have been enjoying the forum from afar, and think I can tell you what the flower pictured among your photographs is. My guess is michelia alba, a hybrid between michelia champak and a species of magnolia. Michelia are a group of trees in the...
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