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1/6/2009
3-4 Painted Snipe Juvenile were seen in one of the managed Shallow Water Habitat.
Glad to know that Painted Snipe is breeding successfully in Long Valley this year!

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I've seen a Green Sandpiper on 17th July. (Sorry for not posting on the forum)
It's glad to know that so many Wood Sandpipers are starting their migration.
Mike, were they resting in fields or just passing through LV?
The scene of 300 munias is really amazing! And we were busying harvesting the rice these weeks.
Thank you so much for your report!

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Thanks Mike,
I guess they would roost there too. Hope we got a fruitful autumn migration this year.
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John,
The photos are great!!!
The munias were enjoying the big meal.

There are several flocks of munias in LV recently (we have several paddy rice field over LV). And this year we got the highest number of munias.

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Thanks David for your information. This encouraged us to increase the rice planting in Long Valley.
2 rounds of rice will be planted from Spring to Autumn. But the yield of the 2nd round, i.e. summer to autumn is not as good as the 1st round.
Bunting is one of the target species for rice planting. However, no or just a few buntings were recorded so far. We hope that more buntings will come and hopefully, the Crested Bunting!!!

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Yes, there is a map showing all the farmlands in Long Valley. You can go to the HKBWS website and there is a section introducing bird watching sites in Hong Kong. Choose New Territories and then Long Valley and you can see the map. However, there are over 300 farmlands and paths are complicated, it is difficult to walk to specific fields even if you have the map on hand.

Direction is easier to locate yourself. The direction where you can see a large yellow construction (the slaughterhouse) and the east rail travel along is North. And the direction where you go to Long Valley from Ho Sheung Heung is west/north west. Yin Kong locates in the southern part of Long Valley.

Hope these directions useful for you.

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7 Aug Hot, sunny and smoggy
2 Grey-headed Lapwing
1 Greater Painted Snipe (male)
Wood Sandpipers
Green Sandpipers
Black-winged Stilts

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Today weather is still hot. Not much birds were seen in LV this morning.

1 Swintain Snipe plus 1 unknown snipe sp.
18 Black-winged Stilt on our managed field.
~50 Wood Sandpipers