lrichard

Seen today (20 Aug 2012) on the scrape and the nearby pond with planted rice:

Oriental Stork 1
Black-faced Spoonbill 2
Sand Plovers 102 (vast majority Greater, a small number Lesser, some indeterminate)
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 6
Red-necked Stint 2
Eurasian Curlew 80
Eastern Curlew 1
Whimbrel 59
Black-tailed Godwit 172 (nearly all the larger form)
Asian Dowitcher 1
Osprey 1

lrichard

Seen on the Mai Po scrape on 30 Aug 2012:

Blacktailed Godwit 293
Great Knot 7
Red Knot 1
Asian Dowitcher 1
Greater Painted Snipe 3
Marsh Sandpiper 12

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Mai Po boardwalk, 31 Aug 2012

Eastern Curlew 1
Great Knot 3 juvs
Asian Dowitcher 1
Black-tailed Godwit 346
Greater Sand Plover 113
Lesser Sand Plover 1
Kentish Plover 1
Red-necked Stint 4
Broad-billed Sandpiper 1
Terek Sandpiper 13
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 6

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 5 Sep 2012:

Saunders's Gull 1 (earliest autumn record by nearly 7 weeks!) John Holmes got photos
Nordmann's Greenshank 1
Grey-headed Lapwing 1
Garganey 3
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 6 still
Broad-billed Sandpiper 14
Great Knot 40
Black-faced Spoonbill 2

lrichard

Mai Po, 14 Sep 2012

Still two Black-faced Spoonbills, the Oriental Stork and the early Saunders's Gull.

First sightings this autumn for me:

Pied Avocet 1
Bar-tailed Godwit 3
Kentish Plover c 12
Lesser Sand Plover 1
Whiskered Tern 2

lrichard

Mai Po Pond 16/17, 28 Sep 2012

Black-faced Spoonbill 2
Garganey 205 (also flock of c 150 small duck put up by a kite at the back of Pond 21)
Teal c 20
Shoveler 20 (exact count)
Pintail 3
Asian Dowitcher 1
Eastern Curlew 1 (looks like the long-staying juvenile starting to fade in colour a bit)

Quiet from the boardwalk:

Saunders's Gull ad/w again
Osprey 2

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 5 Oct 2012

A good collection of birds in front of the new hide on the rising tide, including:

Black-faced Spoonbill 4
Kentish Plover 450 +
Nordmann's Greenshank 1
Terek Sandpiper 11
Grey-tailed Tattler 1
Sanderling 1
Dunlin 12
Curlew Sandpiper 6
Broad-billed Sandpiper 5
Saunders's Gull ad/w still

lrichard

Lots of waterbirds on the Mai Po scrape & also in front of the boardwalk today (12 Oct 2012).

Unfortunately, two illegal mudskipper collectors flushed the feeding flocks in Deep Bay. There were about 40 mudskipper collectors/mainland fishermen on the Mai Po side of Deep Bay at about 1 pm. HK marine police Zodiacs were passing behind them from time to time, but apparently not even attempting to intercept them.

Birds counted in front of the boardwalk:

Dunlin 50
Kentish Plover 465
Pacific Golden Plover 51
Greater Sand Plover 27
Terek Sandpiper 12
Saunders's Gull the adult again

and on Pond 16/17:

Black-tailed Godwit 476
Ruddy Turnstone 1

There was also a Blue Magpie hanging around

lrichard

19 Oct 2012

Mai Po boardwalk:

Black-faced Spoonbill 18
Pied Avocet 103
Black-tailed Godwit 558
Nordmann's Greenshank 1st/w
Saunders's Gull ad/w still

Pond 16/17:

Grey-headed Lapwing 4
Whimbrel 1 (only)
Whiskered Tern 1 juv

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 20 Oct 2012

Oriental Stork 1
Terek Sandpiper 15 (including the leg-flagged bird with a missing foot)
Greater Sand Plover 30 (counted by John Allcock)
Lesser Sand Plover min 3
Temminck's Stint 1
Gull-billed Tern 1
Saunders's Gull 1 still