wgeoff

Hi Mike
Interesting record away from Deep Bay.

There haven't been any summer records (i.e. June or July) in Hong Kong that I can find since 2002 when one or two were recorded in the Waterbird Counts for Deep Bay in those months.
Since 2002, the last HK spring record in each year has been in May, usually early in May, and the first autumn record in August, the earliest being 5 August 2013 and the average being 17 August.

So this would be an early autumn record.

[ Last edited by wgeoff at 18/08/2014 07:16 ]

wgeoff

Mike, is your dog available for hire?

You and others may be interested in this Excel File, which lists the average date several autumn migrants have first been seen over the 20 year period 1994 to 2013 and compares with this year (so far)

http://www.geoffwelch46.com/ELA94-14.xlsx

[ Last edited by wgeoff at 27/08/2014 09:01 ]