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  1. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    The good thing about finding other birders in DB is that you hear about more birds. Will - a kayaking birder mate found these three terrific Pied Avocets bizarrely sitting on the sea near the ferry pier on Sunday. In nice contrast an hour in the scrubland on the slope behind my building...
  2. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Blue Whistling Thrush Another set of portraits of a common DB resident; this time a young Blue Whistling Thrush (as can be told by the biggest white spots on the coverts) that was foraging on the rocks on the edge the pond in Central Park. The first shot it saw me and snapped into its danger...
  3. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Another series of one of the Discovery Bay Black-crowned Night Herons in flight. This time an adult making its approach to landing. I especially like the last shot which shows both alulae raised as the bird puts on the brakes for landing. Cheers Mike
  4. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Many thanks Jeff! Continuing my blossoming love affair with the Sony RX10iv here's a few pix of Black-crowned Night Herons in flight that show the BiF capabilities of the camera with the settings suggested in DP Review. I love that I just have to walk five minutes downhill to have access to...
  5. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    A Saturday morning dog walk in Central Park turned up patch gold when a warbler flicking about in a tiny hedge went "tic" instead of "tak". As I followed, it continued to call and gave naked eye views as it foraged in the flower beds above the waterfalls, but without bins or a camera it could...
  6. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    A productive dart up the hillside behind my block produced a fine range of woodland/shrubland species that included 4 Siberian Rubythroats, 2 Rufous-Tailed Robins, 2 Asian Stubtails, a female Fork-tailed Sunbird, 3 Black-faced Buntings and a fine male Daurian Redstart. As I got to the flatter...
  7. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Good birding elsewhere has distracted me from uploading pix from DB that were a first outing for my new Sony RX10iv. This Chinese Blackbird was foraging on some damp ground just as the sun emerged above the horizon, lighting up the fine details of the belly plumage and centred the catchlight...
  8. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    There has been a small but steady tickle of migrants through Discovery Bay this autumn. These have included a Cattle Egret hanging out on the grass by the tunnel entrance for a few days this week, the usual arrival of Dusky Warbler, a positive fall of Daurian Redstarts in late November, a couple...
  9. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Just realised I never posted a pic of the Black-necked Starling feeding the Koel. Cheers Mike
  10. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Mid-July is also prime time for fledgeling passerines, and I enjoyed watching family parties of Oriental Magpie Robins and Crested Bulbuls coming down two the edge of the water nearby. In the end the shots of the Magpie Robins came out pretty well, and a male Crested Bulbul struck the perfect...
  11. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Summer birding in Discovery Bay A few weeks ago I was up with the dawn and in my usual hopeful scan I noticed a whole bunch of Black-crowned Night Herons around the edges of the pond in Central Park. Unusually I decided that I would make the best of the cooler early morning to see if I could...
  12. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    A busy period of birding on Lantau started with a complete bust on the last day of 2020 with a night bird survey that delivered a big fat zero species on a chilly and occasionally windy night. However things improved with my 21st January survey when, in addition to four Collared Scops Owls, I...
  13. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Last week I finally went birding on Lantau outside Discovery Bay for the first time in a very long time! In between I have done a couple of underwhelming night bird surveys that have produced nothing but differing numbers of Collared Scops Owls as I follow the route down from the big buddha at...
  14. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    A few more bits and pieces back on Lantau. First up I was pleased to scope three Striated Herons in the small mangrove stand from my home 20 floors and 700+ metres away. I had seen adults all summer and a brown-winged and streaky juvenile a few days earlier, but it was nice to see the whole...
  15. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    More unexpected summer quality appeared in the shape of a mystery owl that was found by John Holmes during the ongoing Nightbird Survey. Initially discovered by its distinctive slightly slurred two-note call, which sounded like no owl previously recorded in Hong Kong it was eventually seen in...
  16. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    This was just my second time in 35 years of birding Owen, so I was really happy to get these shots! The previous occasion was a Plaintive Cuckoo been taken care of by a Common Tailorbird, which is tiny by comparison. Cheers Mike
  17. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Shocked to see it's been a month since my Frigatebird sighting, but hardly surprising that I haven't had much more to post as it's so hot now and we are firmly between migration seasions. Today I broke my long range record by scoping an adult White-bellied Sea Eagle being chased down the West...
  18. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    It's been a while since I posted but a few bits and pieces have popped up as we enter the summer doldrums. In ascending order of quality a Pacific Swift scoped from the window early this morning was immediately different from the resident House Swifts that breed here at Discovery Bay. A...
  19. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    First time I've consciously seen it action Gretchen. I may even be wrong, but I did find the sharply defined black shadows helping me to find brownish-coloured birds against a brownish-coloured background - so if figured that it would help raptors too! Cheers Mike
  20. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    It would take a better birder/scientist than me to answer that one Tom. Here's a few more pix: 1. Greater Sandplover - coming into breeding plumage 2.Long-toed Stint - showing of its toes 3.Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - posing outrageously 4. Lesser Sandplover - with clam diggers. 5. Sharp-tailed...
  21. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Having enjoyed the first visit so much I came back on two subsequent days so that I could position myself in better light. There was a little variety in the shape of a Common Redshank, unfortunately missing the entire right leg, a Ruddy Turnstone,, a pair of busily feeding Red Knot, and three...
  22. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Here's a few pix 1. Red-necked Stint 2. Lesser Sandplover 3. Greater Sandplover 4. Curlew Sandpiper 5. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Cheers Mike
  23. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Thanks Owen The fact that there is colony literally within five metres of an active campsite is amazing enough, and a reflection of the determination of birds here to find a way to breed despite the close proximity of people. Despite the radio silence I have been out and about a fair bit on...
  24. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    A few other bits and pieces of birding without travelling far from home in the last few days included a trip to Mui Wo in a failed attempt to see Brown Fish Owls which delivered five Black-faced Buntings, two Scarlet Minivets but precious little in the way of migrants. The real highlight was...
  25. MKinHK

    Exploring Lantau

    Then some others, including a Government helicopter that was hanging for a few minutes over the Yi O ridge - they sometimes practice air/sea rescue here.
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