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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    I always enjoy the woodland (is there that habitat in HK?) birds. Congratulations on the robin, and a nice day despite some birds who are helping to keep you patient and persisting!
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    What a great run! What a history! No one knows what the future holds - you may be back sometime ... but it's hard just as a reader not to feel a loss. Of course, considering what you can find in a roundabout, I'm sure you'll enjoy a new home patch - looking forward to hearing about it of...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Wow! That is jackpot in my book. It was certainly staying out of sight a bit, but must have had that curiosity so dangerous to cats.... Have you seen one before? Are they seen at the farm once and a while?
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Sounds like some nice birds the last few days, though they haven't upped the list. Are the stonechat and bushchat fighting over territory?
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Mike, I thought about your interest in dollarbirds when I saw this blog entry on them hawking insects. A few nice shots and an interesting record of their behavior.
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Sounds like an excellent day - really a good time of year for a day off, huh? Five patch year birds plus lots of other fun stuff to watch. By the way, what's with the snail - that is quite interesting looking.
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Sounds like fall is getting exciting in those parts! Several nice finds each day. However, house hunting has an ominous sound for the patch... trust you'll find some place with some birds around.
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    "After a (blisteringly) hot and horribly polluted summer, autumn arrived overnight with a northerly breeze providing morning temperatures of 22 degrees and humidity as low as 50%" - Just about the same up here. Clear blue skies and lower humidity are such a relief! (We didn't have horrible...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Sounds like the best part of the "footy" was keeping you up to see/hear a few interesting things. View of moons sounds quite nice - with bins I take it?
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Nice additional view of the skink! He's in quite an interesting position there. I decided in the last few years that skinks may be my favorite reptile family (I still know little about reptiles, through the reptile subforum I have seen some variety). Skinks are so slinkly, graceful (for a...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Mike I meant to comment on how I liked your cobra pic - really the angles on both the herps is great - nice to see them at eye level more or less. (though didn't quite see the funky aspect of the skink) Things seem to be going well on your patch with the dollarbirds, a nice total patch...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    All nice photos - like the action on the swallow, and the flycatcher is a beaut! The 3rd and 4th are just good photos... you thinking about a publication or at least a photo essay on your neighborhood? It would be nice to see some of your general photos in a collection....
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Well, if the stuff you didn't get good pics of look half as good as those you did post... it doesn't seem like a bad day. Great set - flycatcher is really good looking and the video capture is great. I'm not sure I've seen an albino plant before... Flower is very pretty too.
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Very nice birding on Sunday it seems like. By the way, do you know what is "changeable" about the changeable lizard? I just saw a reference to that type recently - hadn't heard of them before. How long was yours more or less?
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Wow, birds plus! Sounds like good birding and good batting (?!?) with a nice picture of your Rufous Burrowing which does have lovely rufous coloring.
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    144 sounds like a lot of birds! Must have been fun. Hope you have successful sightings in US - that the birds cooperate and you get some good help (have you posted in the local patch forums? sometimes they help... there are some active birders from Seattle and LA here)
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Sounds like the bird race did produce some good sightings! Are the results posted anywhere? Congratulations on the Blue Rock Thrush - a nice addition to your list I would think. Guess it hasn't been an exciting winter this year, but you'll have migrants going north before too long?
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Putting foot through a plank sounds bad, possibly better than through ice - lots of that and very cold water under it here (but I didn't really take any chances when I was out today, though it looked like meters of ice on the ocean). Like the starlings pic very much and the little bunting -...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Though not the hoped for influx, not a bad set of birds. I wonder if our warmish weather up here is true for much of the country, and keeping birds further north that should be visiting you? The eagle pic is not bad, there's a sense of his power in it. And the heron pics came out great - good...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Nice shots of all three, though the Rubythroat has got better light. Sounds like a very exciting hour! (Never knew they took the leaves off of cherries ... does it force them to bloom earlier?)
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Interesting to see some of the same birds between yours and Dongbei's lists - migrants are stretching across the whole area I guess. I like the myna picture very much! It was great to capture the mongoose and heron and the drama sounds quite interesting. I hadn't thought of a mongoose going...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Mike, thanks so much! If all of them were as clear as your pictures...! Your picture makes me think the breast of the one I saw was much too plain to be Sooty. The comparison points are quite helpful - especially the wing projection which I've not noticed before, but obviously should make it...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Thanks for the fly catcher pics - I'm still pretty much only seeing Asian Brown's I think. I'm still waiting to see some more spectacular looking fly-catchers... Any clues as to the pertinent features between Sooty and Brown? I had one a few weeks ago that I wasn't quite decided on between...
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Sounds like a great day! The butterfly is beautiful - but where's the purple? Cool pic of the leaf-cutter as well.
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    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Wow, though it sounds like things are not "warming up" quickly there, there are nonetheless some good birds arriving and lots of other interesting sightings. Interesting that Chinese bullfrog is new for the list - I think of bullfrogs as making their presence known, though maybe they aren't...
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