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  1. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Many thanks Tom and Owen. I can't help with the visa Owen, but do let me know if you ever find yourself here on a whistle-stop visa visit and you are free from quarantine. Yesterday I went back to Ng Tung Chai with a new birding mate - Will. Our arrival in the village was more subdued than...
  2. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Thanks The_Fern These shots are taken with the Sony RX10iv - I just upgraded from the RX10iii and am loving the improved performance. I am especially blown away by its capabilities for birds in flight. I was astonished with the ability of its autofocus tracking to fix and retain focus ona...
  3. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    With news emerging of a Thick-billed Green Pigeon at Kadoorie Farm - which doesn't open until 0930 - I decided to make an early start at Ng Tung Chai in the hope of finding some winter visitors. There has been a good spread across other forest sites in the last month or so, so I was hopeful of...
  4. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Thanks for the feedback Owen. Our views are rather similar. I see plenty of stunning pix of hard to capture forest birds which are either meal-wormed or taped in and It doesn't sit quite right. For me, to get a pic of a wren babbler or other skulker without the taping is really a worthy ques -...
  5. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    A tantalising visit to Ng Tung Chai on 25th April produced frustratingly brief views of one of my best birds of the spring - a male Siberian Thrush that lurked briefly in fruiting tree with three or four Eye-browed Thrushes. There was little else in the way of migrants but I...
  6. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Thanks Owen. The combination of a good scope with a new phone and an adapter designed for that specific model of scope and phone are the key components. I have a separate thread which shows some more shots and outlines what works for me...
  7. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    So impressed was I by the Grey-backed Shrike that I went back a few days later to see what I could do with the phonescoping setup. What I learned was that good light it essential to getting quality shots. Cheers Mike
  8. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Almost a year on I was back in Lam Tsuen on Sunday in hot pursuit of a bird I should have caught up with in the valley many years ago. There have been only two previous records of Grey-backed Shrike in Hong Kong, but one of these is a bird that returned for two winters to Ng Tung Chai village...
  9. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Hoping for a last hurrah I was back at Ng Tung Chai today. In retrospect it was not a smart decision as the cloud, which was already low, dropped lower and then began drizzling, and didn't stop for a good couple of hours. Unsurprisingly the forest was rather silent, except for the exuberant...
  10. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Thanks Tom - its always great to go back - and since most birders don't like the steep stairs it always feels like my patch - even after 7 years away. Cheers Mike
  11. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    On Christmas morning I again headed up Ng Tung Chai with the intention of checking out the upper parts of the valley for Rufous-faced Warbler and some of the other potential goodies the site has held in the past. I started well with a leucogenys Ashy Drongo calling loudly from the spindly top...
  12. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    There’s loads of woodland in HK Gretchen; and this winter its heaving with good birds! The top site - Tai Lam Country Park has had five Japanese Robins, two White-tailed Robins, Chestnut-bellied and White-throated Rock Thrushes, a Thick-billed Pigeon, numerous spectacled warblers, Fujian and...
  13. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Back at Ng Tung Chai for the first time since February in pursuit of a "self found" Rufous-faced Warbler during this exceptional winter of irruption. I had no luck with finding one, but I nonetheless enjoyed being back in the forest after so much fishpond birding at San Tin. As a result it was...
  14. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Thanks Owen - Long-tailed Shrike is one of those species I struggle to get pleasing shots, so this was a nice bonus. Here's a link to a YouTube clip of the Fire-capped Tit, with the atmospheric noise of the "firing squad" in the background: https://youtu.be/-USAU8pP5dU Cheers Mike
  15. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Having been limited in the areas I could visit during my last visit to Kadoorie Farm (which i inadvertently posted in the wrong thread - here: https://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=3798083&postcount=52. I was very happy that Hong Kong's first Fire-capped Tit had stayed the whole week single...
  16. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    The contrasting birds and seasons is one of the things I love about BirdForum Owen - delighted to be the provider on this occasion! Cheers Mike
  17. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    As winter draws to a close here in Hong Kong I decided to go back to Kadoorie Farm. A female White-throated Rock Thrush had been recorded a few weeks earlier, and the Farm is the only place in HK where Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush winters with any regularity. The Farm covers a couple of hundred...
  18. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Another visit to Ng Tung Chai delivered none of the fireworks of the last two visits, but there was still plenty of interest to justify the climb. First up was a very grey fokiensis Goodson's Leaf Warbler nuthatching at eye level on the bend above the orchard (which despite being abandoned and...
  19. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    As promised a post from a visit back in October this year with visiting birder Tim Boucher . . . The visit started well for me with Scarlet Minivet calling and showing from the carpark and most of our highlights came below the temple - with both an immature/female Siberian Blue Robin and a...
  20. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Yesterday morning, fulfilling the maxim that no good deed goes unpunished I headed back to Ng Tung Chai with my Captain Wong and Yuen to look for the Japanese Robin I'd seen on Tuesday. We started well with a gang of ten thrushes just above the village of which one was a Pale Thrush and one was...
  21. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Following a very enjoyable return to my Ng Tung Chai (NTC) patch in October with visiting birder Tim Boucher (which I'll write about another day), I returned again on Boxing Day in pursuit of some of the wintering woodland birds that are absent or highly elusive on Lantau. I started off pretty...
  22. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    A victory for the Decision Review System Good news - last week the HKBWS records committee reviewed the records of Hawfinch and decided to accept several birds which had been either rejected or held up over concerns of potential escape - including my record from February 2011! The decision was...
  23. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    My Pui O bird has given me the grace to accept your latest success with some degree of equanimity Dylan - and there's no question its a tremendous and long overdue addition to the Lam Tsuen list. There was a record of a bird calling on HK Island a year ago Jon, so its not inconceivable you...
  24. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Gripped again! This time a Malayan Night Heron Dylan picked up calling yesterday evening in the woods opposite my old home, plus a sighting of a "possible" a couple of days earlier. I always expected to find one of these for my whole ten years in the valley, so to have this one pop up barely...
  25. MKinHK

    Ng Tung Chai, Hong Kong

    Back in the valley on a scorching Saturday morning with Dylan and the Times' sports and wildlife writer Simon Barnes, who was in town to cover the Lions vs Barbarians match. We were in search of the oft-heard but rarely-seen Brown Wood Owl and sadly dipped, but did have displaying pairs of...
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