wleepoin

A pair of Mandarin Ducks 鴛鴦



20/1/2007
Kam Tin 錦田

Thanks John Allcock for finding them.  A big tick for us.

PWMK

ajohn

Instructions for anyone wishing to see the mandarins.

From the minibus stop at Shui Mei (near the 'tree house'), continue away from the village past the large fishponds, cross the small stream. There is a road junction by the dog training centre, take the LEFT road and follow this path. You will pass a pig farm (on the right) then a high orange wall (on the left). The birds were initially on a pond just past this wall, then flew across the path onto a small pond used for storage of farm slurry (which is difficult to see from the path).  There is also a white muscovy duck in the area (which has been present in the area for 1-2 years)

The birds were seen to fly away at about 3pm and to my knowledge were not relocated but may still be in the area - there are several ponds in the KT area which the birds could be using.

Also present at KT today:
Fire-breasted Flowerpecker (my first at KT)
Spotted Redshank
Grey-headed Lapwing x9
Blue Rock Thrush
Red-throated Pipit x15

cfrankie

Very Thank !!!!wleepoin

tmichael

The Mandarin Ducks were present again today (Sunday 21st January) on the original pond for some minutes just before 9 am. They had not been on that pond earlier, and had originally been relocated by Y.L Tam on another nearby pond, where again they had not been earlier.

They seem very flighty and are clearly utilising a number of small ponds in the area.

Mike Turnbull

lrichard

The male & female Mandarin Ducks were on a pond at Kam Tin this afternoon (23 Jan) at about 3 pm. Not sure if it's the same pond as before. From Shui Mei, I followed the road towards the dog centre, took the right fork and parked  my car on a slight rise where the the road widened about 100 metres after the turn-off to a big car park area. Looking right from here, I could see two ponds. The Mandarins were at the far end of the back pond, under a large tree.

Richard