Ronaldo

Additions to the list for today:
on the island
Asian Brown Flycatcher x1
Blue-and-white flycatcher x1 male (very nice but very shy, just briefly seen in early morning)
Hainan Blue Flycatcher x1 female (not seen by me, but Allen has some nice pics)
Chestnut-flanked White-eye x2 (seen by Meiling)
Red Turtle Dove x1
For Geoff's counting: the Ashy Minivets were certainly more than 10, and split in two groups (probably 15+), Pacific Swifts at least 2, and Narcissus Flycatchers 3, Blue Rock Thrush x2, Siberian Rubythroat x1 (female seen briefly), Yellow-browed Warbler x3, Brown Shrike x1 (heard briefly)

at sea
over 300 phalaropes in morning, 15 at lunch time in south peninsula, at least 25 on the way back
aside from the terns, which should include at least one common tern (reddish bill, not black trail to secondaries on my pictures), a group of 10 cattle egrets was going from HK island towards Po Toi in the afternoon. We also had a glimpse at three brownish looking birds, flushed by the boat, which flew just over it while we had just left Po Toi. May be small skuas, without visible tail? possibly juveniles or moulding birds.

Ronaldo

9 April
Boat to Po Toi at 8.15
about 100 Phalaropes, essentially between Aberdeen and Stanley and near the Po Toi shores
Lesser Frigatebird from the boat just before arriving at destination

morning visit to South Peninsula (very quiet at sea from 9.30 to 11.00)
Grey Wagtail
Possible rubythroat flushed
about 50 phalaropes in small groups
a group of 20 golden plovers
seen by others far at sea (with scope) 3 skuas (inc. one long tailed, one arctic and a non-determined)
3 rock thrushes and 1 whistling thrush

other areas
1 Japanese Paradise Flycatcher (male)
3 Narcissus Flycatchers (all males) seen +1(?) reported in bamboos near helipad (may be the same as the one seen at the river)
1 Hainan Blue female
2 Black-naped Monarch (females) reported by other birdwatchers

Japanese Thrush, Rufous-tailed Robin, Mandchurian Bush Warbler still around
Yellow-browed warblers (6+)

1 Brown Hawk-Owl flushed while going to the dam was seen by other birdwatchers
1 Grey Nightjar
4 Pacific Swifts
2 Ashy Minivets

Afternoon spent in the south peninsula, with just a few phalaropes (Brendan will report more than that). and back with 4.30 ferry, about 45 phalaropes and one unidentified skua.

Ronaldo

Also one Eurasian Curlew (and a few Barn Swallows) :-)

Ronaldo

Quote:

Original posted by brendank at 21/04/2012 21:29
Actually in the photo that one looked like a Whimbrel.

Not quite sure...
Here is my picture. Seems too bulky for whimbrel.