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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MKinHK" data-source="post: 3194315" data-attributes="member: 21760">Tuesday was the last day of the quarter, and two female Red Turtle Doves on the Golf course left me with a record 64 species for the first three months of the year (compared to 42 in 2013 and 51 in 2014). Other signs of migration were the Asian Brown Flycatcher count increasing to two, a couple of Yellow-browed Warblers, a single White-shouldered Starling, which may have been a remnant of the previous day's record flock, while the six Richard's Pipits was the highest for several weeks. The highlights of the month were the three new species - Buff-bellied Pipit, Fork-tailed Sunbird and the totally unexpected Great Crested Grebe - the splendid run of Oriental Pratincole records (38 birds over three days), my first Narcissus Flycatcher of the spring and the long staying Wryneck and the Pale, Japanese and Grey-backed Thrushes. And probably the best of all was the utterly unexpected record day count of 39 species on 10 January.Less spectacular but still noteworthy were a new high counts of Pacific Reef Egret (3), Hair-crested Drongo (4), Red-throated Pipit (7) and Japanese White-eye (52). The record for the next quarter is 54 species . . .CheersMike</blockquote>