Subject: 28-2-2015 Long Valley [Print This Page] Author: kmatthew Time: 28/02/2015 23:13 Subject: 28-2-2015 Long Valley
Not a bad selection of species, though evidently much quieter then before.
Great Cormorant
Grey Heron
Chinese Pond Heron
Night Heron
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Little Egret
Teal
Garganey
Black Kite
Common Buzzard
Kestrel x2 Japanese Sparrowhawk x2 (one male and one of the escaped bird)
White-breasted Waterhen
Common Moorhen Eastern Water Rail
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Avocet
Black-winged Stilit
Common Snipe x1 Greater Painted Snipe x5+
Wood Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Spotted Dove
Koel
Greater Coucal
Pied Kingfisher x1
White-breasted Kingfisher
Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
House Swift
Tree Sparrow
Richard's Pipit
Olive-backed Pipit
Yellow Wagtail x1 Citrine Wagtail x1
White Wagtail (2 ocularis)
Scarlet Minivet heard (opposite tofu factory, a new one for me at Long Valley)
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Chinese Bulbul
Red-vented Bulbul
Magpie Robin
Siberian Stonechat Bluethroat x1
Daurian Redstart x2
Blackbird
Zitting Cisticola
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Plain Prinia
Yellow-browed Warbler
Common Tailorbird Red-throated Flycatcher x1
Masked Laughingthrush
Cinerous Tit
Japanese White-eye
Long-tailed Shrike Bull-headed Shrike x1
... and with some nice shots especially the Garganey couple too.
Well done, Matthew! Author: kmatthew Time: 1/03/2015 21:32
Thank you Fai Gor and KK, we were lucky! But an interesting thing to observe the come and go of the birds, we had over 30 Common Snipes a few weeks back and just one yesterday, while we had a lot of Red-throated Pipits and Yellow Wagtails a few weeks back, we got very few now~
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