9/11
Mugimaki Flycatcher (male+female)
Orange-headed Thrush
Plaintive Cuckoo
Dark-sided Flycatcher (seen by other birder)
Eastern Buzzard
Blue-and-White Flycatcher (female)
10/11
Eastern Buzzard
Orange-headed Thrush
Common Kestrel
Red-throated Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Radde’s Warbler
Hair-Crested Drongo
Blue-and-White Flycatcher female
Two Barred Warbler
Cattle Egret
11/11
White-throated Rock Thrush female
Blue-and-White Flycatcher female
Red-throated Flycatcher
Dark-sided Flycatcher
Mugimaki Flycatcher (male+female)
Dusky Warbler
Radde’s Warbler
Daurian Redstart female
Yellow-browed Bunting
Common Kestrel
Rufous-tailed Robin (seen by birder kit)
12/11
Brambling (seen by other birder)
Siberian Rubythroat (seen by other birder)
Radde's Warbler
As mention before, birders come to Homantin to admire the birds, Pls don't harm the enviroment and have self-discipline, and let the birds have the most clam and beautiful stage as you meet her, As the birds are our best friends!!!!
Happy Birding
[ Last edited by 星魚 at 14/11/2016 10:24 ] Author: zaku0328 Time: 15/11/2016 22:33
As with still many areas in Hong Kong I am not really sure where the birding spot at Ho Man Tin exactly is. Can somebody point this out please? Thanks! Author: 星魚 Time: 16/11/2016 11:26
Congrats Zaku,^^ Very Good Record of the Homantin,,,,,,
Hi badesc,
ma tau wai service reservoir playground is exactly the place, but as my experience, any green area of Homantin will have a chance,,,,owning to my limited time,,,,So Ma Tau Wai Service Reservoir is my route daily, you can pay attention to every slope,,,,!!^^
[ Last edited by 星魚 at 23/11/2016 15:23 ] Author: 星魚 Time: 9/01/2017 11:14
23/11
Mugimaki Flycatcher Male+female x8
Dusky Warbler
Red-throated Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Grey-backed Thrush
Eyebrowed Thrush x2 (seen by birder Peter Ho)
24/11
Japanese Thrush Male
Dusky Warbler
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Mugimaki Flycatcher
Red-throated Flycatcher
Rufous-tailed Robin
Bull-headed Shrike
Chestnut Bulbul
Red-flanked Bluetail male+female
25/11
Japanese Thrush
Dusky Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Mugimaki Flycatcher
Red-throated Flycatcher
Chestnut Bulbul
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Eyebrowed Thrush
Radde’s Warbler
28/11
Ashy Drongo (Hopwoodi) seen by birder Dawnleaf
Japanese Thrush Male
29/11
All recorded by birder Dawnleaf
Bull-headed Shrike (male)
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Red-throated Flycatcher
Red-flanked Bluetail (First Winter Male)
Daurian Redstart (male and female)
Asian Brown Flycatcher
30/11
Eyebrowed Thrush
Mugimaki Flycatcher adult male
Red-flanked Bluetail female
Grey-backed Thrush female
Blue Whistling Thrush
Arctic Warbler
Chestnut Bulbul
7/12
Pallas’s Leaf Wabler
Red-Breasted Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Chestnut Bulbul
Bull-headed Shrike x3
Blue Whistling Thrush
Japanese Thrush Male
5/1
Hair-crested Drongo x3
Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Daurian Redstart (female x 2, Male x 1)
Eastern Buzzard
Blue Whistling Thrush
[ Last edited by 星魚 at 10/01/2017 08:58 ] Author: ddavid Time: 9/01/2017 13:16
Hi there. Do you have any photos of the Arctic Warbler? There are no previous January records of this species in Hong Kong as far as I know. Author: 星魚 Time: 9/01/2017 20:16
Hi ddavid,
Here is the photo but bad Quality!
I just can say this individual have stayed Homantin since Autumn til now! You can still meet her everyday!;)
Thanks for the information. I was a little skeptical but I spoke to John Allcock. He amplified your recording and confirmed that it is an Arctic Warbler.
The 2014 Bird Report gives the extreme dates for Arctic Warbler as 18 August to 4 December. However, as John pointed out, the Avifauna does mention a record of Arctic Warbler at Victoria Barracks on 24-25 December 1987.
Whatever, your sighting is the first ever for January and the fact that it is a long-staying bird is of great interest.
Shows what a regularly-watched local patch can turn up!!
David Author: 星魚 Time: 10/01/2017 08:29
Hi David,
It is happy to hear that the record is comfirmed, if you want to meet the bird, You can easily find the bird there everyday!
I just waiting to hear when the bird turn the singing from Call to Song,,,,,enjoy!!^^
And he loves jump to and fro between the canopy of Chinese Banyan,
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