MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
No kidding!
A couple of less amazing pix, but of a good birding moment of my own this afternoon, when a flock of 6 Chinese Starlings at Long valley turned out to be carrying two others - a fine male Daurian Starling, and . . .a fine male Chestnut-cheeked Starling!
Actually it was a pretty good afternoon - I also had jut my second Himalayan Swiftlet in HK - a 20-second flyover, over the ponds at the eastern end which had a decent gathering of Black-winged Stilts and Wood Sandpipers, with a couple of LRP, Fantail and Swintail Snipe 5 or 6 Black Drongos and an Oriental Reed Warbler.
As we walked back we disturbed about 200 Crested Mynahs feeding on a bund which took off in a raucous hubbub - I estimate that around 300 birds had come into the roost area by the time we passed. I had also had 4 Silky Starlings on the way in.
Other good birds as the light failed included my first Dusky Warbler of the autumn, a flyover male Yellow Bittern and a Pacific Golden Plover that swooped low over the rice fields in the gathering gloom.
Not bad for a 90-minute evening constitutional with the Mrs!
Cheers
Mike
A couple of less amazing pix, but of a good birding moment of my own this afternoon, when a flock of 6 Chinese Starlings at Long valley turned out to be carrying two others - a fine male Daurian Starling, and . . .a fine male Chestnut-cheeked Starling!
Actually it was a pretty good afternoon - I also had jut my second Himalayan Swiftlet in HK - a 20-second flyover, over the ponds at the eastern end which had a decent gathering of Black-winged Stilts and Wood Sandpipers, with a couple of LRP, Fantail and Swintail Snipe 5 or 6 Black Drongos and an Oriental Reed Warbler.
As we walked back we disturbed about 200 Crested Mynahs feeding on a bund which took off in a raucous hubbub - I estimate that around 300 birds had come into the roost area by the time we passed. I had also had 4 Silky Starlings on the way in.
Other good birds as the light failed included my first Dusky Warbler of the autumn, a flyover male Yellow Bittern and a Pacific Golden Plover that swooped low over the rice fields in the gathering gloom.
Not bad for a 90-minute evening constitutional with the Mrs!
Cheers
Mike