subbuteo

I flushed a crake out of a shallow ditch beside the path in the lower area of Pak Tin Kong. The centre of the map here is where I flushed it from.    I've been back down several times with no luck to look for it but there is so much vegetation and very little open water to stake out.

I had just flushed a White-breasted Waterhen and about ten metres on flushed a much smaller crake.  I mainly saw it in flight- my overall impression was of a overall brown crake, heavily streaked back- lots of white flecks on the back- flecked/streaked rather than barred.  It lifted from the drain and dropped into vegetation about five metres away so I didn't get long to look at it.  The best fit I could find was Baillon's Crake.  

I'm off the next couple of days so will continue to look for it.

Dylan

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subbuteo

I have a feeling Lam Tsuen is rather under watched this Spring.  I'm just back from a the UK and I think Mike is still away.  Just been out for a late morning walk and there is a Dollarbird at Lung A Pai.

Dylan

subbuteo

Thanks to jet-lag, I can report a Hodgson's Hawk Cuckoo calling at 2am.  Really looking forward to work tomorrow.

Dylan

subbuteo

A male Hainan Blue Flycatcher was singing in the woods behind Tin Liu Ha this evening.

Dylan

kpokuen

May 10 morning

Brown shrike
White-browed laughingthrush

Hainan blue flycatcher 1m 1f


Dollarbird


Crested serpent eagle


Crested goshawk

subbuteo

Great photos.  

There was a Hodgson's Hawk Cuckoo calling from the woods behind Lung A Pai from 5.45pm- still calling at 6.15 pm.

Dylan

kmike

I heard that Hodgson' Hawk Cuckoo Dylan!

Also a Brown Shrike and a Black Drongo seen near my veggie patch this afternoon.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

This evening at about 19:50 I heard a Lesser Cuckoo calling 4 or 5 times over the main car park in Ping Long Village.

The call on Xeno Canto of a bird recorded in Taiwan is just right:

http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds/uploaded/SFPCKSRWSJ/LesserCuckoo004434.mp3

I went out to look for the bird but was not successful, but this is a South China breeder so its possible it may stay in the area.

Cheers
Mike K