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Mark Bruce
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Silky, very nice ! We don't get very many of those, uncommon winter for us. We get more Chinese Starling for winter and Chestnut-cheeked Starling on passage.
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
tens of thousands of Silky Starlings winter in HK - mostly in Deep Bay, but they are much less regular in my valley, so I've been enjoying the passage - 11 more yesterday.
Also of interest - hearing singing Pygmy Wren Babbler's three-note song from the roof yesterday and a first Grey-backed Thrush for the winter zipped by this morning flashing orange-red underwings.
Cheers
Mike
Also of interest - hearing singing Pygmy Wren Babbler's three-note song from the roof yesterday and a first Grey-backed Thrush for the winter zipped by this morning flashing orange-red underwings.
Cheers
Mike
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
really cold here for Hk this morning, with a smattering of frost in the dips.
Istood in the grassland N of my place hoping to see my first Rubythroat of the winter,or to add Brown Bush Warbler or Chestnut-eared Bunting to the valley list but had to content myself with unresolved squeaks tiks and rustles until a Little Bunting deigned to sit up and be seen. The highlight was a "Swintail" Snipe in a water spinach bed about 50 metres from the house.
Apart from that the birds were all repeats - although 18 Chinese Blackbirds was a new high count for the winter. I also enjoyed flyovers from 8 Hair-crested Drongos and had at least 2 Barred Owlets calling before dawn.
Added 14 hours later - lots of birds at the bus stop including another Swintail Snipe in the cherry orchard, and a Chinese Blackbird, 20 Silky Starlings and a cracking male Daurian Redstart - lovely!
Yesterday I again had the female Daurian Redstart on the path to the bus stop, and in downtown Kowloon a Blue Rock Thrush of the red-bellied Race philippensis was flycatching on the corner of the Museum of Art, while a half-dozen House Swifts zipped about - unusual location for both species.
Cheers
Mike
Istood in the grassland N of my place hoping to see my first Rubythroat of the winter,or to add Brown Bush Warbler or Chestnut-eared Bunting to the valley list but had to content myself with unresolved squeaks tiks and rustles until a Little Bunting deigned to sit up and be seen. The highlight was a "Swintail" Snipe in a water spinach bed about 50 metres from the house.
Apart from that the birds were all repeats - although 18 Chinese Blackbirds was a new high count for the winter. I also enjoyed flyovers from 8 Hair-crested Drongos and had at least 2 Barred Owlets calling before dawn.
Added 14 hours later - lots of birds at the bus stop including another Swintail Snipe in the cherry orchard, and a Chinese Blackbird, 20 Silky Starlings and a cracking male Daurian Redstart - lovely!
Yesterday I again had the female Daurian Redstart on the path to the bus stop, and in downtown Kowloon a Blue Rock Thrush of the red-bellied Race philippensis was flycatching on the corner of the Museum of Art, while a half-dozen House Swifts zipped about - unusual location for both species.
Cheers
Mike
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MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
A quieter day today, despite going up the waterfall trail - 2 each of Rufous-tailed Robin, Asian Stubtail and Grey-backed Thrush (both males), about 15 Chinese Blackbirds a Velvet-fronted Nuthatch on the big tree above the carpark.
I did finally get reasonable views of both Yellow-browed and Pallas' Leaf Warblers for the first time this winter, but had only th ebriefest of views of a larger phyllosc which may have been a Greenish Warbler.
Other than that a Mountain Tailorbird and a Mountain Bulbul performed well and a small group of Red-billed Leiothrix were more confiding than usual.
However I again failed to connect with Grey-headed Flycatcher (haven't even heard one yet this winter), and Red-Flanked Bluetails also appear to be in short supply.
Cheers
Mike
I did finally get reasonable views of both Yellow-browed and Pallas' Leaf Warblers for the first time this winter, but had only th ebriefest of views of a larger phyllosc which may have been a Greenish Warbler.
Other than that a Mountain Tailorbird and a Mountain Bulbul performed well and a small group of Red-billed Leiothrix were more confiding than usual.
However I again failed to connect with Grey-headed Flycatcher (haven't even heard one yet this winter), and Red-Flanked Bluetails also appear to be in short supply.
Cheers
Mike
Mark Bruce
Super Moderator
Some good birds, Mike. Picked up a Long-billed Dowitcher yesterday while looking for a Laughing Gull. A Laughing Gull was spotted and photographed in Budai, Chiayi County on Thursday. It had seemed to have disappeared but there was a sighting yesterday morning and then a mate and myself found it again yesterday late afternoon. This is the first Laughing Gull record for Taiwan. About thirty thousand gulls winter in some old salt pans at Budai and new gull records seem to turn up there quite frequently. Lots of Saunders's Gulls present at the moment. Also saw some Heuglins and Mongolian Gulls among the thousands of Black-headed. There's also a Brown-headed and Relict Gull flying around amongst the mob but we couldn't find them.
Larry Lade
Moderator
Mark, I'm glad you got to see Taiwan's first Laughing Gull. Congrats!!
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
not many birds in the last couple of days, but from the living room window my wife and I saw a wild boar looking for potatoes to steal in the veggie patch two nights ago, and yesterday evening the dog and I surprised two more, which had trashed the edge of a newly cleared water spinach pond.
This morning I heard but did not see the female Daurian Redstart which appears to have adopted our village for the winter
Cheers
Mike
Ooh Laughing Gull - lovely! - please send it this way - it would be new for HK - lets hope the current cold front persuades it to come south (and west)
This morning I heard but did not see the female Daurian Redstart which appears to have adopted our village for the winter
Cheers
Mike
Ooh Laughing Gull - lovely! - please send it this way - it would be new for HK - lets hope the current cold front persuades it to come south (and west)
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
A full seven hours along the waterfall trail today - and with the slow autumn becoming a slow winter I needed all that time to find some birds - but at least some of them were there to be found!
New for the winter included 4 Red-flanked Bluetails (1 male), a Mountain Bush Warbler, at least one and probably two cracking male Verditer Flycatchers, two Grey Treepies parachuting into the big trees above the village carpark, and a flock of 30+ Striated Yuhinas.
Other birds of interest included my second Woodcock this winter, a Grey-cheeked Fulvetta (rare resident), a couple of Grey-backed Thrushes, and at least ten Pallas' Leaf Warblers. But none of the winter biggies (Japanese Robin, Siberian Thrush, Fujian Niltava and Rufous-gorgetted Flycatcher) that Ng Tung Chai is famous for.
A juvenile Red-necked Keelback sunning itself on a rock was something of a surprise on such a cold day. Based on my sightings over the last few years this appears to be the most abundant snake in the forest.
Cheers
Mike K
New for the winter included 4 Red-flanked Bluetails (1 male), a Mountain Bush Warbler, at least one and probably two cracking male Verditer Flycatchers, two Grey Treepies parachuting into the big trees above the village carpark, and a flock of 30+ Striated Yuhinas.
Other birds of interest included my second Woodcock this winter, a Grey-cheeked Fulvetta (rare resident), a couple of Grey-backed Thrushes, and at least ten Pallas' Leaf Warblers. But none of the winter biggies (Japanese Robin, Siberian Thrush, Fujian Niltava and Rufous-gorgetted Flycatcher) that Ng Tung Chai is famous for.
A juvenile Red-necked Keelback sunning itself on a rock was something of a surprise on such a cold day. Based on my sightings over the last few years this appears to be the most abundant snake in the forest.
Cheers
Mike K
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MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
A quiet start to the week, but this morning there were 10 Hair-crested Drongos flying over as I hula-hooped, and a female Yellow-billed Grosbeak - my first of the winter - was perched on the bamboo scaffolding of the new house being constructed nearby.
Dusky Warblers were frisky this morning, with two zipping past "tak"-ing as they went, and a Yellow-browed Warbler called as I was waiting at the bus stop.
The day before was my first two Daurian Redstart day - the female in the village came into the smaller veggie patch behind the house and the male was again in the field of cherry trees by the bus stop.
I've also noticed that Grey Heron has joined the Night Herons, Pond Herons, Little and occasional Great Egrets that loiter on the riverside waterworks next to the road on the bus ride to the station.
Cheers
Mike
Dusky Warblers were frisky this morning, with two zipping past "tak"-ing as they went, and a Yellow-browed Warbler called as I was waiting at the bus stop.
The day before was my first two Daurian Redstart day - the female in the village came into the smaller veggie patch behind the house and the male was again in the field of cherry trees by the bus stop.
I've also noticed that Grey Heron has joined the Night Herons, Pond Herons, Little and occasional Great Egrets that loiter on the riverside waterworks next to the road on the bus ride to the station.
Cheers
Mike
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
A late-ish walk this morning was headlined by a new patch bird for me - and one I should have had long ago - Zitting Cisticola! It even behaved well - popping up right when my fourth Bright-capped Cisticola of the day (a new high count for the patch) called from cover. It then sat up next to the Zitting Cisticola so that I could enjoy a good view of both birds side-by-side.
There were two of nine species of warbler, which also included Yellow-browed, Pallas' Leaf, Dusky, Russet Bush, Common and Mountain Tailorbirds and Yellow-bellied Prinia.
Grey-headed Flycatcher continues elude me in the forest this winter, but I did see a couple of White-bellied Yuhinas, which are pretty scarce here, in with a mixed flock of Chestnut Bulbul, Blue-winged Minla, Velvet-fronted Nuthatch, Fork-tailed Sunbird, Japanese White-eye, Scarlet and Grey-chinned Minivet, Mountain Tailorbird, Pallas' and Yellow-browed Warblers.
As I was coming out of the woodland I flushed a fine male Chestnut Bunting (and had another female later) and bk on the path through the marsh had several Red-vented Bulbul and a male Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker.
Other good birds included a flyover Plaintive Cuckoo , a Common Buzzard, and a Taiga Flycatcher.
Cheers
Mike
There were two of nine species of warbler, which also included Yellow-browed, Pallas' Leaf, Dusky, Russet Bush, Common and Mountain Tailorbirds and Yellow-bellied Prinia.
Grey-headed Flycatcher continues elude me in the forest this winter, but I did see a couple of White-bellied Yuhinas, which are pretty scarce here, in with a mixed flock of Chestnut Bulbul, Blue-winged Minla, Velvet-fronted Nuthatch, Fork-tailed Sunbird, Japanese White-eye, Scarlet and Grey-chinned Minivet, Mountain Tailorbird, Pallas' and Yellow-browed Warblers.
As I was coming out of the woodland I flushed a fine male Chestnut Bunting (and had another female later) and bk on the path through the marsh had several Red-vented Bulbul and a male Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker.
Other good birds included a flyover Plaintive Cuckoo , a Common Buzzard, and a Taiga Flycatcher.
Cheers
Mike
Mark Bruce
Super Moderator
Well done, Mike ! Some super birds on that walk, Mike :t: !
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
Birding started early this morning -two Barred Owletsserenaded me from the big tree in the village from about 0430 this morning, and a Collared Scops Owl called distantly when I went out to tape the Barred Owlet on my new phone.
Today I birded in Tai Om, the valley to the North of Ng Tung Chai in the morning and in the afternoon the marshy area beyond the grassy field:
The highlight was Brown Bush Warbler - which showed for a couple of minutes in the middle of a lantana. This is a new species for the whole of the Lam Tsuen - any by extension the patch - and was one of 10 warbler species seen and heard today.
The key bird to separate Brown Bush Warbler from is Russet Bush Warbler - both are from the miserably skulking Bradypterus family. It's easy when they sing - Russet goes "zyeee-ut..zyeee-ut.. zyeee-ut" and Brown has analmost locustella-like trill that sounds like a miniatue, sper-fast two-stroke engine.
This bird neither called no showed the diagnostic undertail coverts - pale-tipped in Russet and all-dark in Brown, but did show a strongly yellow lower mandible (Russet has a darker bill and when the lower mandible is pale it usually has a darker tip and a pinker tone.
The other important pro-Brown feature was the white breast with rufous toned breast-sides and flanks. Russet has a grey-washed breast with darker flanks and, especially later in the winter, a few small dark spots on the neck.
I also had a minimum of 15 Chestnut Buntings - my biggest flock in HK for more than 10 years, my first Ashy Drongo of the winter and Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike (both were in with a mixed flock of Scarlet and Grey-chinned Minivets).
Wonderful views of skulkers seems to be a feature of Tai Om - today a Pygmy Wren Babbler showed wonderfully well next to the tree-shrine below the abandoned village for more than five minutes - it was hopping about on some woody-stemmed creepers, calling and wing flicking (both together) and generally performing like a champion.
While at home for lunch a Crested Goshawk zipped in, terrifying an assortment of starlings , mynas , wagtails and Spotted Doves on the veggie patch. It sat briefly on a street light - long enough for me to start scrabbling for the coolpix - but not of course long enough for a photo.
In the evening a walk around the lower fields added Silky Starling, Black-faced Bunting, Chinese Bush Warbler, an aberrant Dusky Warbler with a huge white super and a couple of Hair-crested Drongos.
An omission from last week was 4 Oriental Turtle Doves making a first appearance for the winter.
Still no Grey-headed Flycatcher!
Cheers
Mike K
Today I birded in Tai Om, the valley to the North of Ng Tung Chai in the morning and in the afternoon the marshy area beyond the grassy field:
The highlight was Brown Bush Warbler - which showed for a couple of minutes in the middle of a lantana. This is a new species for the whole of the Lam Tsuen - any by extension the patch - and was one of 10 warbler species seen and heard today.
The key bird to separate Brown Bush Warbler from is Russet Bush Warbler - both are from the miserably skulking Bradypterus family. It's easy when they sing - Russet goes "zyeee-ut..zyeee-ut.. zyeee-ut" and Brown has analmost locustella-like trill that sounds like a miniatue, sper-fast two-stroke engine.
This bird neither called no showed the diagnostic undertail coverts - pale-tipped in Russet and all-dark in Brown, but did show a strongly yellow lower mandible (Russet has a darker bill and when the lower mandible is pale it usually has a darker tip and a pinker tone.
The other important pro-Brown feature was the white breast with rufous toned breast-sides and flanks. Russet has a grey-washed breast with darker flanks and, especially later in the winter, a few small dark spots on the neck.
I also had a minimum of 15 Chestnut Buntings - my biggest flock in HK for more than 10 years, my first Ashy Drongo of the winter and Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike (both were in with a mixed flock of Scarlet and Grey-chinned Minivets).
Wonderful views of skulkers seems to be a feature of Tai Om - today a Pygmy Wren Babbler showed wonderfully well next to the tree-shrine below the abandoned village for more than five minutes - it was hopping about on some woody-stemmed creepers, calling and wing flicking (both together) and generally performing like a champion.
While at home for lunch a Crested Goshawk zipped in, terrifying an assortment of starlings , mynas , wagtails and Spotted Doves on the veggie patch. It sat briefly on a street light - long enough for me to start scrabbling for the coolpix - but not of course long enough for a photo.
In the evening a walk around the lower fields added Silky Starling, Black-faced Bunting, Chinese Bush Warbler, an aberrant Dusky Warbler with a huge white super and a couple of Hair-crested Drongos.
An omission from last week was 4 Oriental Turtle Doves making a first appearance for the winter.
Still no Grey-headed Flycatcher!
Cheers
Mike K
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
A quieter day, but good views of a calling Rufous-rumped Grassbird was fair reward for toiling up the hill to look for it. The area where I saw one in Feb - behind Lin Au village - had been burned off, but it was on anther hill about 500m away - It helpfully started calling following my failed attempt to pish out a Rubythroat that had flushed across the path. I see them too irregularly to remember the call, but since I knew it was different I kept pishing and it helpfully popped out about 15 metres away to have a good look at me.
When seen well it seems amazing we ever thought it might be a warbler rather than a babbler - the bill is too deep, the eye is large, and the shaggy mane on the nape all give an impression of a somewhat primitive bird, without the neat lines and elegance of most warblers.
On the climb up to the grassy hill I also flushed a Woodcock and at the base had the first of Black-naped Monarchs and two Chinese Bush Warblers. Other good birds today included a round dozen Hair-crested Drongos including a couple feeding on a banana flower, Little, Chestnut and Black-faced Buntings and a couple of Rubythroat. Four Black Kite was a good number to see in the air at one time, and both Crested Goshawk and Besra put in an appearance.
Sadly I once again found Dog-faced Fruit Bats caught in a net set to trap birds and will report it.
Cheers
Mike
When seen well it seems amazing we ever thought it might be a warbler rather than a babbler - the bill is too deep, the eye is large, and the shaggy mane on the nape all give an impression of a somewhat primitive bird, without the neat lines and elegance of most warblers.
On the climb up to the grassy hill I also flushed a Woodcock and at the base had the first of Black-naped Monarchs and two Chinese Bush Warblers. Other good birds today included a round dozen Hair-crested Drongos including a couple feeding on a banana flower, Little, Chestnut and Black-faced Buntings and a couple of Rubythroat. Four Black Kite was a good number to see in the air at one time, and both Crested Goshawk and Besra put in an appearance.
Sadly I once again found Dog-faced Fruit Bats caught in a net set to trap birds and will report it.
Cheers
Mike
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Mike Kilburn
Happy New Year!
It was today - as, after a very slow start to the winter, I looked out of the spare room window this morning to find a female Daurian Redstart and a male Siberian Rubythroat pottering about in the same bush!
I also visited Tai Om Shan this afternoon, and picked up my first Tristram's Bunting of the winter and flushed a Woodcock of off the path just as a bradypterus Bush Warbler sp dobbed up and down at the spot I had the Brown Bush Warbler two weeks ago.
However the real highlight of the day was my first HK tick of the year - a superb male Bay Woodpecker at Tai Po Kau. I've missed this bird several times in the last 18 or so months, including on New Years Day. So it was great to hear this impressive woodpecker calling as it flew in, to see it land in full sunshine on a bare branch for a couple of seconds, flashing its red neck patch to prove it was a male before disappearing in a flurry of tiger-striped wings. To cap it all it perched again nearby and let rip with its distinctive loud, laughing call - a glorious celebration of my first HK tick for 7 months!
It was today - as, after a very slow start to the winter, I looked out of the spare room window this morning to find a female Daurian Redstart and a male Siberian Rubythroat pottering about in the same bush!
I also visited Tai Om Shan this afternoon, and picked up my first Tristram's Bunting of the winter and flushed a Woodcock of off the path just as a bradypterus Bush Warbler sp dobbed up and down at the spot I had the Brown Bush Warbler two weeks ago.
However the real highlight of the day was my first HK tick of the year - a superb male Bay Woodpecker at Tai Po Kau. I've missed this bird several times in the last 18 or so months, including on New Years Day. So it was great to hear this impressive woodpecker calling as it flew in, to see it land in full sunshine on a bare branch for a couple of seconds, flashing its red neck patch to prove it was a male before disappearing in a flurry of tiger-striped wings. To cap it all it perched again nearby and let rip with its distinctive loud, laughing call - a glorious celebration of my first HK tick for 7 months!
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
A new bird on the patch yesterday was Richard's Pipit on some trashed farmland a bit further away than I usually go, but still in walking distance, so I'm still allowing it!
It was an otherwise quiet morning - A Taiga Flycatcher flew in to my pishing and both Rubythroat and Bright-capped Cisticola called from cover, but with a late start my expectations were not too high to begin with.
Cheers
Mike
It was an otherwise quiet morning - A Taiga Flycatcher flew in to my pishing and both Rubythroat and Bright-capped Cisticola called from cover, but with a late start my expectations were not too high to begin with.
Cheers
Mike
Mark Bruce
Super Moderator
Happy New Year to you and yours, Mike :t: ! Congrats on the Pipit and that Taiga Flycatcher is great !
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
Thanks Mark - Happy New Year to you too!
Its all gone quiet - a small matter of a conference for 400 getting in the way of any birding.
One brighter moment was a Common Kingfisher zipping along the stream on the way down to the bus stop. Out tomorrow morning and hopefully there will be something worth reporting.
Cheers
Mike
Its all gone quiet - a small matter of a conference for 400 getting in the way of any birding.
One brighter moment was a Common Kingfisher zipping along the stream on the way down to the bus stop. Out tomorrow morning and hopefully there will be something worth reporting.
Cheers
Mike
MKinHK
Mike Kilburn
A quiet morning in the forest last sunday, but Tristram's Bunting showed well, and an Ashy Drongo was zipping abut with its usual dash, and a big mixed flock of Scarlet & Grey-chinned Minivets had come out of the forest into the big camphor tree in Tai Om village.
Of note today was a pair of Large-billed Crows chasing off a Crested Goshawk sitting in the big tree in the grassy field. The Barred Owlets have been in good voice this week and I've also heard Collared Scops Owl a couple of times this week. But more intriguing is the other owl call I heard distantly which may be Brown Wood Owl - recorded just once in HK, ut a distinct possibility - very much hoping it will call again . . .
However, the big news was another HK lifer off-patch - Hawfinch. I had dipped on this twice already but got the dream sickie - blurred vision from staring at my computer under flouresent light - meant that a day in natural light was just what the doctor ordered!
This bird had been showing only around midday, so not only was I able to twitch it on a Tuesday, but I could lie in until 11:00, and then have the bird pop up in front of me at 11:45, show well feeding on Chinese Hackberry seeds for thirty minutes (a classic winter-plumaged female), and then disappear, allowing a swift return home or lunch with my wife - just perfect!
The Records Committee have already decided it shows no sign of cage damage, but have traditionally be reluctant to accept Hawfinch as Cat. A as there are few records this far south in China. However, this bird arrived in a cold spell and appears to be behaving like a wild bird, so it must have a pretty good chance of at least making Category B (probably wild but possibility of escape cannot be ruled out), and given that almost all cage birds show some damage - as shown by a PhD study on the bird trade here - I'm optimistic enough to count in for my list.
And finally . . . I got a message that someone sent me a PM, but a dataase error has locked me out. If the sender happens to read this, please could you put a note on this thread - thanks!
Cheers
Mike
Of note today was a pair of Large-billed Crows chasing off a Crested Goshawk sitting in the big tree in the grassy field. The Barred Owlets have been in good voice this week and I've also heard Collared Scops Owl a couple of times this week. But more intriguing is the other owl call I heard distantly which may be Brown Wood Owl - recorded just once in HK, ut a distinct possibility - very much hoping it will call again . . .
However, the big news was another HK lifer off-patch - Hawfinch. I had dipped on this twice already but got the dream sickie - blurred vision from staring at my computer under flouresent light - meant that a day in natural light was just what the doctor ordered!
This bird had been showing only around midday, so not only was I able to twitch it on a Tuesday, but I could lie in until 11:00, and then have the bird pop up in front of me at 11:45, show well feeding on Chinese Hackberry seeds for thirty minutes (a classic winter-plumaged female), and then disappear, allowing a swift return home or lunch with my wife - just perfect!
The Records Committee have already decided it shows no sign of cage damage, but have traditionally be reluctant to accept Hawfinch as Cat. A as there are few records this far south in China. However, this bird arrived in a cold spell and appears to be behaving like a wild bird, so it must have a pretty good chance of at least making Category B (probably wild but possibility of escape cannot be ruled out), and given that almost all cage birds show some damage - as shown by a PhD study on the bird trade here - I'm optimistic enough to count in for my list.
And finally . . . I got a message that someone sent me a PM, but a dataase error has locked me out. If the sender happens to read this, please could you put a note on this thread - thanks!
Cheers
Mike
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Mike Kilburn
A dreadful 3 hours in the forest at Ng Tung Chai was redeemed by a flurry of activity on the road out of the village, when a Greenish Warbler and a Taiga Flycatcher popped up at the new carpark, shortly aftera couple of Grey-backed Thrushes were my first of the day.
Pallas' Leaf Warbler and Asian Stubtail aso both made very late appearances to rescue what would have turned out to be a good contender for worst ever day in Ng Tung Chai.
A family walk in the afternoon - it's Chinese New Year for the first three glorious days of this week! - up to Tai Om Shan revealed the mixed minivet flock from the other day, plus 25+ Striated Yuhina, a couple of Hair-crested Drongos and a good flock of Greater Necklaced Laughingthrushes.
Cheers
Mike
Pallas' Leaf Warbler and Asian Stubtail aso both made very late appearances to rescue what would have turned out to be a good contender for worst ever day in Ng Tung Chai.
A family walk in the afternoon - it's Chinese New Year for the first three glorious days of this week! - up to Tai Om Shan revealed the mixed minivet flock from the other day, plus 25+ Striated Yuhina, a couple of Hair-crested Drongos and a good flock of Greater Necklaced Laughingthrushes.
Cheers
Mike
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