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    Exploring Lantau

    Really fun to (finally) read your adventures! Congrats on getting such unusual birds so close to home, while keeping up with family commitments! Spring and lots of new birds must be well underway now... PS - wonderful the way you've been connecting with owls!
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    Exploring Lantau

    Yes, a great opportunity - thanks for sharing it!
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    Exploring Lantau

    I see a new strategy for spotting birds which I need to put to work! Of course, now I'm on the shores of Lake Superior, and when not looking for birds in the forest, am looking for ducks on the lake! Nevertheless - it's good food for thought.
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    Exploring Lantau

    I like "crouching to hide its shadow from a passing Black Kite" - wasn't aware of that strategy - makes lots of sense!
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    Exploring Lantau

    Lovely picture of the young oriole and his spots! I'm impressed in your first pic that the egrets had better watch out for that shrimp - looks like the tables could be turned!
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    Exploring Lantau

    Sounds like a great outing out on the old patch - interesting how different the bird populations are! Glad you caught the leaf warbler. Like the green tongue too - would not have seen that without your picture.
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    Exploring Lantau

    Nice to read about the interesting birds, and see that your Daurians are looking ready for the new season - quite handsome. I enjoyed the pictures of the Japanese thrush and buffalo herd particularly!
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    Exploring Lantau

    Sounds like race preparations are going well - and if I forget to say it later - good luck! Hope you get lots of birds! Enjoying your pictures as always. I've never seen a group of snipe milling around like that - very nice. Do you think your Rosefinch is eating a berry or a worm/insect...
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    Exploring Lantau

    Some nice sightings Mike! Interesting shot of the snipe too. I was enjoying the Scaly-breasted Munias in Thailand recently - nice markings and a fun social bird to watch.
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    Exploring Lantau

    Yes, that doesn't make too shabby of a year....
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    Exploring Lantau

    Yes, it did sound like a great weekend! Thanks for writing it up.
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    Exploring Lantau

    Re: aging of Black-crowned Nightheron - thanks! I've seen both juveniles and adults, but hadn't really paid attention to the second year until your earlier picture. Once you pointed out the features, I knew I should have noticed it didn't quite look like an adult. I hadn't really noted that...
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    Exploring Lantau

    Hope that the heron's strategy doesn't backfire on it (becoming too acclimated to people). Do you think the bird is going for the bread or the fish that the bread brings? Do you mind telling the features that make it a second year bird? Looks like not only the heron but also the turtle wasn't...
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    Exploring Lantau

    Nice to hear the news - even without the (positive?) announcement of autumn. (Goodness, we've hardly gotten to hot and sticky weather yet here - guess I'm still getting used to birders' understanding of seasons!) Your splendid Asian Painted Frog is certainly itty-bitty head attached to very...
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    Exploring Lantau

    I guess the brown shrikes must be traveling together? It's interesting to see good sized groups several times. I've noticed that during breeding season they can be a bit thicker on the ground than I would expect, which I suppose means that there's a good bit of food available even in a small...
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    Exploring Lantau

    Nice to see so many pairs of birds - its the season! All the cattle egrets sound like a lovely sight. I guess the lizard was pontificating silently... Both shots of him are nice. Don't know if soap-on-a-rope was an item when/where you were growing up, but "goat on rope" had a sort of...
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    Exploring Lantau

    Very nice educational approach!
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    Exploring Lantau

    I don't know much about turtles and tortoises (so can't help), but how could you tell it was interested in water? (For my reference when I come across one.) 18 inches is pretty big - it must have been heavy! Nice work on the rescue. It would be great to get some journalist on how this kind...
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    Exploring Lantau

    oooh yes! Surely the birds will pick up soon - though I guess its natural to hope that they do it on the weekend. Sounds like there are definite spring signs there. (Even in northern Minn. with snow still on the ground, the local birds are singing.)
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    Exploring Lantau

    The scarecrows of Lantau... should be interesting - the first specimen certainly is. Sounds like the birds did okay for your mother, certainly a great variety from redstarts to sea eagle. I've not seen a collared crow yet, and your picture makes me anxious to see them. I do really like...
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    Exploring Lantau

    Thanks for the comments on the Black-crowned Herons - I'll just have to look for chances to see them in more than singles!
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    Exploring Lantau

    Nice start to the holiday. I haven't really ever seen Black-crowned Herons in a group before. Is that typical (or typical winter behavior)? I have a mental image of types of herons/egrets that might be found in groups and those which will always be individuals, but maybe that just has to do...
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    Exploring Lantau

    Excellent day! Lots of nice sightings - esp. the so well named Elegant bunting. Nice frog pic too - the browner one reminds me of the North American wood frog - a handsome (though slightly smaller fellow) we came across in the woods a good deal this summer.
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    Exploring Lantau

    Sounds like a nice outing. Good to be able to get a record shot of the rail. (We've been thinking about one of those ultrazooms, so interesting to see what you can get with it.) Like the skink's toes.
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    Exploring Lantau

    All great shots! It makes me think I'd like to see Tai O. Was that longhorn still alive? Did you eat at that restaurant - I mean how could you resist when all the animals seemed so delighted to be eaten??
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