kmike

Lunchtime today the following birds were at the roundabout next to the taxi stand to the north of terminal 2 between

Oriental Turtle Dove - 1 juvenile
Black-naped Oriole - 1
Wryneck - 1
Richard's Pipit - 1
Olive-back Pipit - 2
Brown Shrike - 1
Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Grey-backed Thrush - 1
Dusky Warbler - 5
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1

Cheers
Mike

subbuteo

Quite possibly the best roundabout list ever submitted, anywhere.

Dylan

kmike

Thanks Dylan

Other migrants seen here since 20th October include:

Blue Rock Thrush
Siberian Rubythroat
probable Blyth's Reed Warbler
Daurian Redstart
Chinese Blackbird
White-throated Kingfisher

Cheers
Mike

handrew

Did they have boarding passes?

kmike

Some good birds on a wet and windy lunchtime:

Common Sandpiper 3 (on the golf course)
Wryneck 1
Orange-headed Ground Thrush 1
Blue Rock Thrush 1  male philippensis
Chinese Starling  1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Today at the magic roundabout:

Blue Rock Thrush  1m philippines

Narcissus Flycatcher 1m
female elisae-owstoni-narcissina flycatcher sp.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

1:15 - 2:25pm

Chinese Pond Heron 7

Daurian Redstart 1f
Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 2 mf (possibly another male)
Narcissus Flycatcher

Chinese Starling
White-cheeked Starling

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Autumn has come to the Magic Roundabout.

On Wednesday a female Yellow-rumped Flycatcher appeared briefly
On Thursday an Asian Paradise Flycatcher showed well

Cheers
Mike

kmike

The Asian Paradise Flycatcher was there again today

Cheers
Mike

tsheunglai

Mike

Very good assortment of migrants seen.

Probably I will one day rushing to your place for a rare bird.

Very soon, I hope.

S L Tai

kmike

Me too Mr Tai!

kmike

More good birds at lunchtime today:

Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 3
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 1 (new for Magic Roundabout)

Cheers
Mike

kmike

And even more migrants today:

Barn Swallow - 2
Black-winged Cuckooshrike - 1
Brown Shrike - 1

Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 2
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 1

White-shouldered Starling - 2

Cheers
Mike

thinfor

Today's record around 12:00-14:00

Asian brown flycatcher x 1+ (possibly 2)
Arctic warbler x 1

And some other non-migrants:
White wagtail x 2
Common tailorbird x 1
Great tit x 1
Oriental magpie robin x 1
Long-tailed shrike x 1 (seen during the way to the airport)
Bulbuls and white-eyes

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kmike

I missed a couple of days posting . . .but there were birds also on Tuesday and Wednesday:

11 September

Snipe sp. - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 1
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1

12 September

Asian Brown Flycatcher - 2
Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 2
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1
Brown Shrike - 1

13 September

Blue Rock Thrush (f)  -  HKIA Tower - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Another good week  . . .

2 Oct
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2
Chinese Pond Heron - 6

Richard's Pipit - 4
Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Large locustella sp. - 1
Oriental Reed Warbler - 1
Pale-legged / Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 2

Black Drongo - 1
Chinese Starling - 12

3 October
Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Large locustella sp. - 1
Dusky Warbler - 2
Stejneger's Stonechat - 1


4 October

Wryneck - 1
Richard's Pipit - 1
Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Oriental Reed Warbler - 1
Eastern Crowned Warbler - 2
Arctic Warbler - 3
Dusky Warbler - 1
Greenish Warbler - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 2
Brown Shrike - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

7 October

Chinese Pond Heron 1
Black Kite 1
Red Turtle Dove 1
Richard's Pipit 4
Pale Martin 3
Stejneger's Stonechat 1
Oriental Reed Warbler 1
Arctic Warbler 2
Asian Brown Flycatcher 4
Black Drongo 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

16 October

Chinese Pond Heron -1Eurasian Kestrel - 2

lugens White Wagtail - 1 male
Richard's Pipit - 8

Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Blue Rock Thrush - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher -1

Spotted Munia - 5

Cheers
Mike K

kmike

A few more good birds at the Magic Roundabout in the last couple of weeks:

Peregrine - 1 (24 Oct)
Japanese Quail - 1 (29 Oct)

Leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail - 1 (long-staying bird)
Daurian Redstart - 1

Lanceolated Warbler - 1 (28 Oct)
Zitting Cisticola - 1 (28 Oct)

Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 1 (24 Oct)
Grey-headed Flycatcher - 1 (24 Oct)

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A few more good records for the airport's Magic Roundabout this month:

5 Nov
Hair-crested Drongo
Manchurian Bush Warbler  
Arctic Warbler
Dusky Warbler x 2
Yellow-browed Warblers x 3
Asian Brown Flycatcher. .

6 Nov
Crested Goshawk
Japanese Quail
Common Sandpipers x 2
Oriental Turtle Dove
Yellow Wagtail
leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail.
Daurian Redstart,
Lanceolated Warbler

8 Nov
Daurian Redstart
YBWs x 2  
Dusky warbler x 3,
Arctic Warbler
Lanceolated Warbler
Asian Brown Flycatcher

12 Nov
leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Yellow-browed Warbler
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Silky Starlings x 2
White-shouldered Starlings x4  

15 Nov
Wryneck
Daurian Redstart x2
Rufous-tailed Robin
YBW x 8
Dusky Warbler x2
Asian Brown Flycatcher x2  
Mugimaki Flycatcher

19 Nov
Wryneck
Oriental Turtle Dove x2ocularis White Wagtail
Olive-backed Pipit  x 5
Grey Bushchat
Daurian Redstart x 4
Grey-backed ThrushLanceolated Warbler
Pallas's Leaf Warbler  
Dusky Warbler x4
YBW  x4
Asian Brown Flycatcher.
Chinese Starling x 8

21 Nov
Mountain Tailorbird
Siberian Rubythroat
Daurian Redstart x 3
Grey-backed thrush x 2
Chinese Blackbird x 2
Wryneck

Cheers
Mike

John Holmes

All great stuff, especially for a roundabout.

Mountain Tailorbirds seem to be everywhere this autumn.

kmike

Yesterday a Little Curlew was found (by Geoff Carey) at the Nine Eagles Golf Course at Chek Lap Kok and seen again this morning.

This bird can be seen well from the left hand side of the verandah in front of the golf course. Please be reminded not to trespass onto the course itself.

Cheers
Mike K

John Holmes

Somewhat against the light in the afternoon, but here it is:-

kmike

The bird was still present at lunchtime, but had moved to the opposite side of the course and could be seen from the far end of the walkway that starts in the back left corner of terminal 2 (next to the lost property office).

As far as I can tell this is the first midwinter record for HK and possibly the first between the end of October and April.

Nice shot John!

Cheers
Mike

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lchunfai

Thanks Michelle,Mike and Manson. Saw the bird at a distance.
Photo by iPhone:

[ Last edited by lchunfai at 19/12/2013 15:21 ]

kmike

The Little Curlew was again present at lunchtime today.

It was again close to the clubhouse. It would best be looked for from the right hand corner of the verandah for anyone going today.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

. . .and again.
this time at the far end from the clubhouse.

Also present on the Magic Roundabout:

White's Thrush
Japanese Thrush 2
Grey-backed Thrush 4
Blue Rock Thrush

Wryneck

Cheers
Mike

kmike

More reward for being at work during Christmas week  . . . an unseasonal Grey-faced Buzzard flew over the Roundabout at lunchtime and was then hurried on its way by a couple of Large-billed Crows.

There were also 3 Little Ringed Plovers on the golf course.

Cheers
Mike

louislee

May I know if the golf course is open to public ?

Do I need to pay entrance fee for just walking in ?

John Holmes

Hi Louis,

You can walk in to the clubhouse area - or drive in and park - but access to the course itself is restricted by security guards.

There is no entrance fee.

With luck you might see the Little Curlew from the front left corner of the clubhouse (next to Thai Restaurant) or -as Mike says above- leave Terminal 2 at level 5 near the lost property office and take the elevated walkway towards the Marriot Hotel/Expo area.

You can look onto the course from the east end of the walkway too, and also from a grassy lane outside the chain link fence to the west of the Golf Course.

On the 25th December the Little Curlew was in the area near the 2nd Tee. We saw it closest through the fence. It was okay for a view, but not good for photography....

John

kmike

More winter birds at the Magic Roundabout on 30 and 31 Dec

Eurasian Kestrel

Common Sandpiper

Wryneck

leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Daurian Redstart

White's Thrush
Chinese Blackbird
Grey-backed Thrush (at least 4)
Japanese Thrush -2
Blue Rock Thrush (pandoo and philippensis races)

Pallas's Leaf Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Greenish Warbler

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A quieter start to the year until yesterday when 80 Heuglin's Gulls were in the Rambler Channel to the north of the airport.
There were still two present today at lunchtime today.

Of the 35 spp recorded so far in January the highlights were:

Little Ringed Plover - 2
Common Sandpiper

Wryneck

Leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Olive-backed Pipit - up to 7

Blue Rock Thrush
White's Thrush
Japanese Thrush
Grey-backed Thrush - up to 4
Chinese Blackbird

White-cheeked Starling

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A good day today on the grassy patches to the south of the terminal buildings:
Grey-headed Lapwing - 2
Swintail Snipe - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
medium wader sp 1

Barn Swallow - 2
Olive-backed Pipit - 4
Richard's Pipit 4

Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Chinese Blackbird - 1
Grey-backed Thrush - 1 (main roundabout)

Yellow-browed Warbler - 2

Silky Starling - 30

Cheers
Mike

kmike

N Roundabout HKIA
31 Mar

Black-crowned Night Heron 3
Swintail Snipe - 2

Yellow Wagtail - 1
Red-throated Pipit - 2
Richard's Pipit - 2
OBP - 9

Blue Rock Thrush (philippensis) - 1

Silky Starling - 30
White-shouldered Starling - 5

1 April

Black-crowned Night Heron - 3

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1
Dusky Warbler - 1

Narcissus Flycatcher - 1
Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 1

Common Magpie - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

3 April
Oriental Pratincole - 2
Little Ringed Plover - 1
Common Sandpiper - 2

Barn Swallow - 8
Leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail - 1
Ocularis White Wagtail - 1

Blue Rock Thrush philippensis - 1

YBW - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

a few migrants so far this week on the Magic Roundabout:

Tuesday 8th April
philippensis Blue Rock Thrush - 1
Pale-legged / Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1 (h)
Narcissus Flycatcher - 1m
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
OBP -2

Wednesday 9th April
Black-crowned night Heron - 7
Brown-headed Thrush - 1f (first for Chek Lap Kok)
Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 1m
Dusky Warbler - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

22 April

Cattle Egret 2
Oriental Pratincole
Pacific Swift 4


24 April 2014
more passage after ten sunny days with very little.

Chinese Pond Heron 2
Pacific Golden Plover
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike
Richard's Pipit
Yellow Wagtail 4
Brown Shrike

Asian Brown Flycatcher
Chestnut Bunting (m)

Cheers
Mike

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kmike

28 April
House Swift
Red Turtle Dove
Grey Wagtail
Richard's Pipit 2


29 April

Little Curlew (golf course @ c. 2:00pm)
Grey Wagtail
leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Richard's Pipit 2

Cheers
Mike

kmike

30 April

11 x Brown Shrike 3 x Arctic Warbler
1 x Dusky Warbler
1 x Y Wagtail

Cheers
Mike

rosefinch

1 May
Magic Round about + airport golf course


Little Curlew 1(golf course)
Brown shrike 5
Richard pipits 3

Thanks to K Mike who posted the news so that I can finally ticked the little curlew, though I failed last Dec.

Cheers!!!

kmike

Congratulations Rosefinch!

2 May

The Little Curlew was seen again on the golf course at least up to 1:45 from the walkway out of the northeast corner of terminal 2
27 Brown Shrikes
4 Yellow Wagtail (simillima)
Arctic Warbler 2

Cheers
Mike K

rosefinch

Thanks you, K Mike!

For those who might look for the Little Curlew: on May 1 around 3:30pm, I have a fairly close encounter
(about 30-40 meters) with the curlew, at right hand-side of the restaurant,
i.e. on the grassland at right hand side of the entrance gate of the golf club. Good luck!

Cheers
Meiling

[ Last edited by rosefinch at 3/05/2014 00:54 ]

kmike

Summer is officially over - the first Yellow-rumped Flycatcher of the autumn was at the Magic Roundabout at lunchtime today. Last year my first was on 21 Aug - 14 days later.  This is the second-earliest record, following two at Mai Po on 2nd August last autumn.

Cheers,
Mike K

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kmike

A Pacific Golden Plover, two Little Ringed Plovers and three Barn Swallows were on the airport golf course at lunchtime today.
Cheers
Mike K

kmike

A Brown Shrike was at the Magic Roundabout at lunchtime today. It was chased off by a Long-tailed Shrike. A Barn Swallow was the only other migrant.

Cheers
Mike

tsheunglai

Mike

watch out for good birds around Mid-autumn festival. Drongo cuckoo's 2nd record was found around this time of the year. Coming Friday possibly a good day, after rainy/cloudy/unsettled weather day.


Tai

kmike

Drongo Cuckoo is definitely one I look out for at this time of year Mr Tai.

Today - and pretty unexpected - a beautiful white-headed Black-winged Stilt was on the golf course at lunchtime.

Cheers
Mike

tsheunglai

A autumn first of its kind.

Soon flocking the whole Deep Bay nearshore.

Cheers.

Tai

kmike

An Asian Paradise Flycatcher and nine Yellow Wagtails were at the Magic Roundabout at lunchtime today.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

After a few quiet days  . . .


Yellow Wagtail - 4

Asian Brown Flycatcher
Dark-sided Flycatcher (my first at this site)
Grey-streaked Flycatcher
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler


Cheers
Mike