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Birds seen at Mai Po NR today (5 Sep 2010) by Mike Kilburn & Richard Lewthwaite included these:

Shoveler 1 boardwalk (first since the spring?)
Osprey 1 near Pond 20
Black-tailed Godwit 250+ Mai Po scrape (unusually high number for early September)
Asian Dowitcher 9 boardwalk
Temminck's Stint 1 boardwalk (quite an early date)
Oriental Turtle Dove 3-5 including at least one juvenile

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Birds seen in front of the Mai Po boardwalk on 19 Sep 2010 by Mike Kilburn & me included:

Shoveler 9
Garganey 47
Osprey 1
Eastern Marsh Harrier 1
Kentish Plover 2
Pacific Gloden Plover 4
possible American Golden Plover 1 (hopefully more to follow on this bird)
Black-tailed Godwit 335
Bar-tailed Godwit 14
Asaian Dowitcher 1
Whimbrel 52
Grey-tailed Tattler 1
Red-necked Stint 25
Little Stint 1
Broad-billed Sandpiper 15
Sanderling 1
Dunlin 2
Curlew Sandpiper 4
Black-headed Gull 1
Gull-billed Tern 1 imm

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Seen on the reserve and in front of the boardwalk during high tide period on 23 Oct

Great Crested Grebe 1 still on Pond 20
Greater Scaup 3 b/w (early autumn record)
Northern Shoveler c 1000 b/w
Tufted Duck 4 b/w
Greater Spotted Eagle 1 imm
Whimbrel 41 on roof of Cathay/HKBWS hide
Dunlin 3 on Pond 21
poss Vega Gull 2nd winter b/w