Details about the Wild Card Day will be announced onto the forum on Friday (5/11) afternoon.
We are taking note on the birds of different birding sites. Please feel free to give suggestions by repling this thread.
Thank you so much!!
百搭日將會到蒲台島觀鳥,詳情如下 We will go to Po Toi Island on Wild Card Day, details as follow:
7/11/10 Po Toi Island outing 蒲台島觀鳥活動
Activity information
Date: 7/11/2010 Sunday
Time: 08:00 - 16:00 (Ferry from Po Toi to Stanley Blake Pier start at 15:00 and 16:30; ferry from Po Toi to Aberdeen start at 18:00, participants can decide which ferry to take.)
Gathering Time & Place: 07:45 Aberdeen Ferry Pier, Aberdeen Promenade
Ferry will leave Aberdeen at 8:15am and there is only one ferry going to Po Toi from Aberdeen. To ensure you can have a place on the ferry, please be punctual! If you cannot reach Aberdeen before 8:00am, please call the activity leader 9457 3196 to reserve a place for you.
Free of Charge for all members. HK$30 for non-member. But ALL participants have to pay their own ferry fee ($40 round trip)
Target Species: Migratory birds
The Activiites Enquiry Hotline / for contacting outing leaders on the event date only: 9457 3196.
Disclaimer
The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society shall have no responsibility, financial or otherwise, for expenditure or other liabilities arising from the activities.
So it is only a day for outing activity which the destination to be determined just before the actual date. I understand now.
I was thinking of some sort of special activity.... Author: HFCheung Time: 7/11/2010 18:52
About 25 join the Po Toi Outing today.
We were rewarded with a Northern Boobook (Brown Hawk Owl). Other bird include Eurasian Siskin and Mugimaki Flycatcher. Mountain Tailorbird was heard. 33 species were ticked. Here is the bird list.
HKBWS outing to Po Toi, 7 Nov 2010, Sunny period, 23 deg., wind east to northeast force 3 to 4
Sp. No. 中文名稱 Common Name Tick
67 小白鷺 Little Egret tick
83 黑鳶 Black Kite tick
85 白腹海鵰 White-bellied Sea Eagle tick
90 鳳頭鷹 Crested Goshawk 1
92 日本松雀鷹 Japanese Sparrowhawk 2
96 普通鵟 Eastern Buzzard tick
215 山斑鳩 Oriental Turtle Dove tick
217 珠頸斑鳩 Spotted Dove tick
225 褐翅鴉鵑 Greater Coucal tick
245 鷹鴞 Northern Boobook 1
260 普通翠鳥 Common Kingfisher tick
289 髮冠卷尾 Hair-crested Drongo tick
301 大嘴烏鴉 Large-billed Crow tick
310 紅耳鵯 Red-whiskered Bulbul tick
311 白頭鵯 Chinese Bulbul tick
318 家燕 Barn Swallow tick
327 金頭縫葉鶯 Mountain Tailorbird tick
334 黃腰柳鶯 Pallas's Leaf Warbler tick
335 黃眉柳鶯 Yellow-browed Warbler tick
364 棕扇尾鶯 Zitting Cisticola tick
367 純色鷦鶯 Plain Prinia tick
368 長尾縫葉鶯 Common Tailorbird tick
374 黑臉噪鶥 Masked Laughingthrush tick
386 暗綠繡眼鳥 Japanese White-eye tick
388 八哥 Crested Myna tick
399 紫嘯鶇 Blue Whistling Thrush tick
420 鵲鴝 Oriental Magpie Robin tick
423 北紅尾鴝 Daurian Redstart tick
429 藍磯鶇 Blue Rock Thrush tick
441 鴝姬鶲 Mugimaki Flycatcher 1
463 白腰文鳥 White-rumped Munia tick
470 白鶺鴒 White Wagtail tick
482 黃雀 Eurasian Siskin 3+
HF Cheung
[ Last edited by HFCheung at 8/11/2010 16:56 ] Author: wgeoff Time: 8/11/2010 06:41
The first autumn record of Brown Hawk Owl on Po Toi Author: cywong Time: 10/11/2010 23:43
Thanks to Dr. Cheung for leading this outing and spotting the Brown Hawk Owl. The Brown Hawk Owl stayed at the same spot for many hours and bird photograhers could take as many photos for it as they like!