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Today morning ~8:15am, interestingly, I saw a pied kingfisher was chased by 2-3 red-billed blue magpies and the kingfisher then flew toward the direction of Victoria Harbour.

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A smart Asian Brown Flycatcher is back!=]

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7-9-2010
11:00

Eastern Crowned Warbler
Asian Brown Flycatcher

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Original posted by brendank at 15/09/2010 10:31
15 Sep 2010--Po Shan Road

Best bird was a Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler.  Also there are at least 2 and maybe 3 Besra in the area.  Kept seeing a Besra everywhere I went.

The good birds from thi ...

A forest wagtail, arctic warbler and pale-legged leaf/sakhalin leaf warbler were still there today afternoon in the end of Po Shan Rd.

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Original posted by brendank at 15/09/2010 23:40
Good to know the Forest Wagtail is still around.  Guess it was hiding from me today morning.

As limited by my schedule, I could only go there after 11:00am. In the afternoon, there are not much birds could be found (by me only?). Would you mind telling me the time that you usually went to there? I wonder if the time was very important for birding at that site, thank you very much=]

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Original posted by brendank at 16/09/2010 20:53
I suspect Po Shan Road is a bit of a migrant trap.  Birds heading south stop when they hit the vast concrete jungle of Sai Wan/Sheng Wan/Central.  Furthermore, this location is much better in the fall ...

Thank you very much! Hope more species of bird could be seen later!

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This is common to hear flowerpecker's call in the morning near the University Road. But I don't know if it/they are Scarlet-backed or Buff-bellied flowerpecker.

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Nice to meet you again. Brendank.
the bird that I forgot its name was Asian Stubtail Warbler.
There were 2-3 Asian Stubtail Warbler today.
And a olive-backed pipit.

After you left, there is a olive-backed pipit and the suspected two-barred greenish warbler was there again. But I missed the Mugimaki......

May be I took some better photos of the warbler after you left, I may post it later.


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After P.S. Rd. I also went to Pik Shan Path today.
There were Rufous-tailed robin and Asian Subtail warbler again and a Japanese bush thrush
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some birds of today:







strange warblers:









In Pik Shan Path:

I think the "Blackbird" should be japanese bush thrush...
after seeing the photo




I would upload the warbler ID in another post. Thank you so much, and thanks Brendank=]

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Thanks koel and brendank.
In fact the first bird in my photos is the one that I saw with brendank, and the last two photos are the bird that I found later. They might be two different birds actually.
Structually, I also think that they are two different birds but share d some similarity.

There are some more photos in another post:
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/viewthread.php?tid=12579
All are appreciated to comment and welcome to discuss=]
the bird1 is the first bird in the about post, and the bird 2 is the last two bird in my reply.
( I hope I have not mix up the photos.....)

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On 12-11-2010, there was a thrush spp. which was not a violet-whistleing and a common blackbird.
I suspected it was a grey-backed thrush, but I was not sure.
The ground must be more surprise =]

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19-11-2010
Just an observation.
A white-bellied sea eagle glided over the HKU main campus today.
It glided with a low altitude and expelled by 5-10 black kites from their colony(probably)...poor WBSE...
But I have never seen a WBSE flying so close like that in HK island.

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May be this is hard to do so...but try your best!!

In fact, I have never seen WBSE flying over/across LFS. But seems peter have seen it flying across The Peak (right?).

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First time to see a chestnut bulbul in HKU near the main building. It probably comes from LFS.

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Brendank, in the last year, I found 3 chestnut bulbuls around the LFS education center. I wonder if they were residents or migrants.
But it is a bit surprise that it flew so low even to the HKU campus.
In fact, I was attracted by its calling first, and than I tried to find it and seen it finally.

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Nice Chestnut Bunting!
I saw 3 common buzzards gliding over HKU campus. They flew together with very high speed.