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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MKinHK" data-source="post: 3161049" data-attributes="member: 21760">Two more good days on the roundabout this week: Thursday 29th January . . . started well as I picked up a Magpie carrying a stick up towards a tree near the Cathay Pacific complex from the bus, which strongly suggested they would breed this year. At lunchtime two Reef Egrets were on the silt curtain along with 130-odd mostly Little Egrets and two Hair-crested Drongos were in the trees next to the golf course.I again found the lugens (not lumens as I was autocorrected last week) White Wagtail close to the filling station, and then added to the theme by finding the leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail over on the Northern Edge, where I also picked up a solitary Heuglin's Gull from the sea watch point, along with the three Grey Herons in the pic below.A Japanese Bush Warbler was lurking on the Eastern Tangle and the Core Area provided a good finish with a calling Asian Brown Flycatcher (I always try to string this call for Red-breasted Flycatcher), a fine male Daurian Redstart and the long-staying male Pale Thrush, which disappeared at high speed.Friday 30th January . . . also started well with 40-odd Silky Starlings probing the waterlogged grass near the bus station.  The lugens White Wagtail was again foraging at the roadside along with a couple of ocularis White Wagtails and OBPs.  The top bird of the week was a Buff-bellied Pipit (136) in the waterlogged grass where the Red-throated Pipits and LRPs have been hanging out. I had wondered last week if there might have been one lurking in the flock of Red-throated Pipits, so I was delighted to get some reasonable views and a few confirmatory pix (see below). The taivanaB]Yellow Wagtail was again present here, as were the regulation Richard's Pipits.I also had a better look at the female Pale Thrush that lurks in the trees close to where the Chinese Blackbirds (there were two again today) hang out. Its so small that every time it pops up into the shadows under the canopy of a huge bouganvillea, showing little more than the white in the outer tail feathers I wonder (briefly) if it's a bulbul, but today's view of pale pinky-peach flanks, super and moustachial stripe plus a rich brown back was much more satisfying.The Japanese Bush Warbler and the Kestrel were again in the trees on the edge of the golf course, along with a female Daurian Redstart, but the Tangles were notable mostly for the thrushes that didn't show, although the male Pale Thrush was typically vocal in it is evasiveness.CheersMike</blockquote>

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