kmike

Lunchtime today the following birds were at the roundabout next to the taxi stand to the north of terminal 2 between

Oriental Turtle Dove - 1 juvenile
Black-naped Oriole - 1
Wryneck - 1
Richard's Pipit - 1
Olive-back Pipit - 2
Brown Shrike - 1
Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Grey-backed Thrush - 1
Dusky Warbler - 5
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Thanks Dylan

Other migrants seen here since 20th October include:

Blue Rock Thrush
Siberian Rubythroat
probable Blyth's Reed Warbler
Daurian Redstart
Chinese Blackbird
White-throated Kingfisher

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Some good birds on a wet and windy lunchtime:

Common Sandpiper 3 (on the golf course)
Wryneck 1
Orange-headed Ground Thrush 1
Blue Rock Thrush 1  male philippensis
Chinese Starling  1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Today at the magic roundabout:

Blue Rock Thrush  1m philippines

Narcissus Flycatcher 1m
female elisae-owstoni-narcissina flycatcher sp.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

1:15 - 2:25pm

Chinese Pond Heron 7

Daurian Redstart 1f
Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 2 mf (possibly another male)
Narcissus Flycatcher

Chinese Starling
White-cheeked Starling

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Autumn has come to the Magic Roundabout.

On Wednesday a female Yellow-rumped Flycatcher appeared briefly
On Thursday an Asian Paradise Flycatcher showed well

Cheers
Mike

kmike

The Asian Paradise Flycatcher was there again today

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Me too Mr Tai!

kmike

More good birds at lunchtime today:

Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 3
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 1 (new for Magic Roundabout)

Cheers
Mike

kmike

And even more migrants today:

Barn Swallow - 2
Black-winged Cuckooshrike - 1
Brown Shrike - 1

Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 2
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - 1

White-shouldered Starling - 2

Cheers
Mike

kmike

I missed a couple of days posting . . .but there were birds also on Tuesday and Wednesday:

11 September

Snipe sp. - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 1
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1

12 September

Asian Brown Flycatcher - 2
Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 2
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher - 1
Arctic Warbler - 1
Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1
Brown Shrike - 1

13 September

Blue Rock Thrush (f)  -  HKIA Tower - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Another good week  . . .

2 Oct
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2
Chinese Pond Heron - 6

Richard's Pipit - 4
Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Large locustella sp. - 1
Oriental Reed Warbler - 1
Pale-legged / Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 2

Black Drongo - 1
Chinese Starling - 12

3 October
Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Large locustella sp. - 1
Dusky Warbler - 2
Stejneger's Stonechat - 1


4 October

Wryneck - 1
Richard's Pipit - 1
Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Oriental Reed Warbler - 1
Eastern Crowned Warbler - 2
Arctic Warbler - 3
Dusky Warbler - 1
Greenish Warbler - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 2
Brown Shrike - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

7 October

Chinese Pond Heron 1
Black Kite 1
Red Turtle Dove 1
Richard's Pipit 4
Pale Martin 3
Stejneger's Stonechat 1
Oriental Reed Warbler 1
Arctic Warbler 2
Asian Brown Flycatcher 4
Black Drongo 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

16 October

Chinese Pond Heron -1Eurasian Kestrel - 2

lugens White Wagtail - 1 male
Richard's Pipit - 8

Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Blue Rock Thrush - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher -1

Spotted Munia - 5

Cheers
Mike K

kmike

A few more good birds at the Magic Roundabout in the last couple of weeks:

Peregrine - 1 (24 Oct)
Japanese Quail - 1 (29 Oct)

Leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail - 1 (long-staying bird)
Daurian Redstart - 1

Lanceolated Warbler - 1 (28 Oct)
Zitting Cisticola - 1 (28 Oct)

Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 1 (24 Oct)
Grey-headed Flycatcher - 1 (24 Oct)

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A few more good records for the airport's Magic Roundabout this month:

5 Nov
Hair-crested Drongo
Manchurian Bush Warbler  
Arctic Warbler
Dusky Warbler x 2
Yellow-browed Warblers x 3
Asian Brown Flycatcher. .

6 Nov
Crested Goshawk
Japanese Quail
Common Sandpipers x 2
Oriental Turtle Dove
Yellow Wagtail
leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail.
Daurian Redstart,
Lanceolated Warbler

8 Nov
Daurian Redstart
YBWs x 2  
Dusky warbler x 3,
Arctic Warbler
Lanceolated Warbler
Asian Brown Flycatcher

12 Nov
leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Yellow-browed Warbler
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Silky Starlings x 2
White-shouldered Starlings x4  

15 Nov
Wryneck
Daurian Redstart x2
Rufous-tailed Robin
YBW x 8
Dusky Warbler x2
Asian Brown Flycatcher x2  
Mugimaki Flycatcher

19 Nov
Wryneck
Oriental Turtle Dove x2ocularis White Wagtail
Olive-backed Pipit  x 5
Grey Bushchat
Daurian Redstart x 4
Grey-backed ThrushLanceolated Warbler
Pallas's Leaf Warbler  
Dusky Warbler x4
YBW  x4
Asian Brown Flycatcher.
Chinese Starling x 8

21 Nov
Mountain Tailorbird
Siberian Rubythroat
Daurian Redstart x 3
Grey-backed thrush x 2
Chinese Blackbird x 2
Wryneck

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Yesterday a Little Curlew was found (by Geoff Carey) at the Nine Eagles Golf Course at Chek Lap Kok and seen again this morning.

This bird can be seen well from the left hand side of the verandah in front of the golf course. Please be reminded not to trespass onto the course itself.

Cheers
Mike K

kmike

The bird was still present at lunchtime, but had moved to the opposite side of the course and could be seen from the far end of the walkway that starts in the back left corner of terminal 2 (next to the lost property office).

As far as I can tell this is the first midwinter record for HK and possibly the first between the end of October and April.

Nice shot John!

Cheers
Mike

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kmike

The Little Curlew was again present at lunchtime today.

It was again close to the clubhouse. It would best be looked for from the right hand corner of the verandah for anyone going today.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

. . .and again.
this time at the far end from the clubhouse.

Also present on the Magic Roundabout:

White's Thrush
Japanese Thrush 2
Grey-backed Thrush 4
Blue Rock Thrush

Wryneck

Cheers
Mike

kmike

More reward for being at work during Christmas week  . . . an unseasonal Grey-faced Buzzard flew over the Roundabout at lunchtime and was then hurried on its way by a couple of Large-billed Crows.

There were also 3 Little Ringed Plovers on the golf course.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

More winter birds at the Magic Roundabout on 30 and 31 Dec

Eurasian Kestrel

Common Sandpiper

Wryneck

leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Daurian Redstart

White's Thrush
Chinese Blackbird
Grey-backed Thrush (at least 4)
Japanese Thrush -2
Blue Rock Thrush (pandoo and philippensis races)

Pallas's Leaf Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Greenish Warbler

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A quieter start to the year until yesterday when 80 Heuglin's Gulls were in the Rambler Channel to the north of the airport.
There were still two present today at lunchtime today.

Of the 35 spp recorded so far in January the highlights were:

Little Ringed Plover - 2
Common Sandpiper

Wryneck

Leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Olive-backed Pipit - up to 7

Blue Rock Thrush
White's Thrush
Japanese Thrush
Grey-backed Thrush - up to 4
Chinese Blackbird

White-cheeked Starling

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A good day today on the grassy patches to the south of the terminal buildings:
Grey-headed Lapwing - 2
Swintail Snipe - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
medium wader sp 1

Barn Swallow - 2
Olive-backed Pipit - 4
Richard's Pipit 4

Stejneger's Stonechat - 1
Chinese Blackbird - 1
Grey-backed Thrush - 1 (main roundabout)

Yellow-browed Warbler - 2

Silky Starling - 30

Cheers
Mike

kmike

N Roundabout HKIA
31 Mar

Black-crowned Night Heron 3
Swintail Snipe - 2

Yellow Wagtail - 1
Red-throated Pipit - 2
Richard's Pipit - 2
OBP - 9

Blue Rock Thrush (philippensis) - 1

Silky Starling - 30
White-shouldered Starling - 5

1 April

Black-crowned Night Heron - 3

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1
Dusky Warbler - 1

Narcissus Flycatcher - 1
Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 1

Common Magpie - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

3 April
Oriental Pratincole - 2
Little Ringed Plover - 1
Common Sandpiper - 2

Barn Swallow - 8
Leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail - 1
Ocularis White Wagtail - 1

Blue Rock Thrush philippensis - 1

YBW - 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

a few migrants so far this week on the Magic Roundabout:

Tuesday 8th April
philippensis Blue Rock Thrush - 1
Pale-legged / Sakhalin Leaf Warbler - 1 (h)
Narcissus Flycatcher - 1m
Asian Brown Flycatcher - 1
OBP -2

Wednesday 9th April
Black-crowned night Heron - 7
Brown-headed Thrush - 1f (first for Chek Lap Kok)
Blue-and-white Flycatcher - 1m
Dusky Warbler - 1

Cheers
Mike

kmike

22 April

Cattle Egret 2
Oriental Pratincole
Pacific Swift 4


24 April 2014
more passage after ten sunny days with very little.

Chinese Pond Heron 2
Pacific Golden Plover
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike
Richard's Pipit
Yellow Wagtail 4
Brown Shrike

Asian Brown Flycatcher
Chestnut Bunting (m)

Cheers
Mike

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kmike

28 April
House Swift
Red Turtle Dove
Grey Wagtail
Richard's Pipit 2


29 April

Little Curlew (golf course @ c. 2:00pm)
Grey Wagtail
leucopsis x alboides White Wagtail
Richard's Pipit 2

Cheers
Mike

kmike

30 April

11 x Brown Shrike 3 x Arctic Warbler
1 x Dusky Warbler
1 x Y Wagtail

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Congratulations Rosefinch!

2 May

The Little Curlew was seen again on the golf course at least up to 1:45 from the walkway out of the northeast corner of terminal 2
27 Brown Shrikes
4 Yellow Wagtail (simillima)
Arctic Warbler 2

Cheers
Mike K

kmike

Summer is officially over - the first Yellow-rumped Flycatcher of the autumn was at the Magic Roundabout at lunchtime today. Last year my first was on 21 Aug - 14 days later.  This is the second-earliest record, following two at Mai Po on 2nd August last autumn.

Cheers,
Mike K

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kmike

A Pacific Golden Plover, two Little Ringed Plovers and three Barn Swallows were on the airport golf course at lunchtime today.
Cheers
Mike K

kmike

A Brown Shrike was at the Magic Roundabout at lunchtime today. It was chased off by a Long-tailed Shrike. A Barn Swallow was the only other migrant.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Drongo Cuckoo is definitely one I look out for at this time of year Mr Tai.

Today - and pretty unexpected - a beautiful white-headed Black-winged Stilt was on the golf course at lunchtime.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

An Asian Paradise Flycatcher and nine Yellow Wagtails were at the Magic Roundabout at lunchtime today.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

After a few quiet days  . . .


Yellow Wagtail - 4

Asian Brown Flycatcher
Dark-sided Flycatcher (my first at this site)
Grey-streaked Flycatcher
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler


Cheers
Mike

kmike

Another good lunchtime at the Roundabout:

Pechora Pipit

Arctic Warbler - 2
Pale-legged / Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
Zitting Cisticola

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Dark-sided Flycatcher

Cheers
Mike

kmike

Another good day on the Roundabout

Black-naped Oriole
Black-winged Cuckooshrike
Brown Shrike
Grey Wagtail x 3
Pechora Pipit

Arctic Warbler x 2
Pale-legged /Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
Drak-sided Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher x 2

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A quieter week than the previous, but a few new migrants appeared on Monday and Tuesday:

Cattle Egret 11
Red Turtle Dove 2
Richard's Pipit 3
Yellow Wagtail 2

Yellow-browed Warbler
Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler

Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
Asian Brown Flycatcher

Brown Shrike (there seem to be very few records this autumn)

Cheers
Mike

kmike

22 species include some good records for Chek Lap Kok:

Grey Heron - 2
Great Egret - 9
Little Egret - 7

Greater Coucal - 1
Black Drongo - 1
Hair-crested Drongo - 1

Richard's Pipit - 5

Stejneger's Stonechat - 1m

Dusky Warbler - 2 first of the autumn
Oriental Reed Warbler - 1

Asian Brown Flycatcher - at least 2 and probably 3


Cheers
Mike K

kmike

A few more for the roundabout:
Grey Heron 5
Great Egret 7
Cattle Egret 2

Wryneck
Brown Shrike
Richard's Pipit 8
Red-throated Pipit 2

Stejneger's Stonechat 2

Arctic Warbler
Dusky Warbler

Asian Brown Flycatcher 4

Cheers
Mike K

kmike

Two more good days;

14 Oct

Lugens White Wagtail
Red-throated Pipit 7
Richard's Pipit - 12

Wryneck
Brown Shrike
Hair-crested Drongo

Blue Rock Thrush
Taiga Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher

Arctic Warbler
Dusky Warbler x2

15 Oct
Great Egret x3
Little Egret
Chinese Pond heron
Black Kite 4

Moorhen

Red Turtle Dove
Hair-crested Drongo
Wryneck
Red-throated Pipit 6
Richard's Pipit 10

Daurian Redstart m
Greenish Warbler 2
Arctic Warbler 2
Dusky warbler 6
YBW
Asian Brown Fly 3

Cheers
Mike K

kmike

20 Oct

Black Drongos 1
Eurasian Woodcock
Red Turtle Dove
Wryneck

Red-throated Pipit 2
Richard's Pipit 4

Arctic Warbler 2
Dusky Warbler 2
Plain Prinia 2
Asian Brown Flycatcher 4   
Greenish Warbler

21 Oct

Hoopoe
Wryneck
White-breasted Kingfisher
House Swift 2
Richard's Pipit 6
Red-throated Pipit

Black Drongo 2
Asian Brown Flycatcher


23 Oct


Japanese Sparrowhawk

ocularis White Wagtail
Richard's Pipit

Daurian Redstart (m)
Black-browed Reed Warbler
Plain Prinia
Dusky Warbler 2
Asian Brown Flycatcher

Black Drongo 2
Hair-crested Drongo

White-shouldered Starling  4
Black-faced Bunting 2

Cheers
Mike

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kmike

More good birds at lunchtime today Koel:
Siberian Rubythroat (m)

Oriental Reed Warbler
Black-browed Reed Warbler
Lanceolated Warbler  2
Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Greenish Warbler
Dusky Warbler 2

Black-naped Monarch (another patch tick)

Black Drongo 2

Koel you can find a map of my route on my Birdforum thread here:

http://www.birdforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=436246&d=1365342486

All the birds are seen on this route, plus along the southern edge of the golf course.

Cheers
Mike

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kmike

After a bit of a gap  . . .
Narcissus Flycatcher - 1 male
White-shouldered Starling - 30

Last week I had a total of 38 Oriental Pratincoles and other good birds have included a Great Crested Grebe, Buff-bellied Pipit, an overwintering Wryneck, Northern Lapwing, Verditer and a range of the commoner thrushes.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

A very good early autumn period at the Magic Roundabout over the last 2 weeks:

Grey-headed Lapwing      1 on 17 Aug
Black-winged Stilt       1 on 1 Sept
Pacific Golden Plover    2 on 28
Little Ringed Plover        3 on 28 Aug, 6 on 31 Aug
Common Sandpiper         1 on 14 Aug, 2 on 1 Sept

Common Kingfisher        1 on 14 Aug, 1 on 31 Aug
Wh.-breasted Kingfisher  1 on 28, 31Aug, @ sept
House Swift             22 on 14 Aug (patch high count)

Hoopoe:                 26 Aug: One picked up injured. Sent to KFBG for Rehab (video here). Anyone heard the rasping call it gives on 10 seconds before? Also 1 on 31 Aug and 1 Sept

Stejneger's Stonechat    1 on 31 Aug
Arctic Warbler           2 on 26 Aug
Asian Brown Flycatcher   1 on 31 Aug

Richard's Pipit          1 on 28 Aug
Yellow Wagtail sp.       1 on 18 Aug
  taivana                2 on 28 7 on 31 Aug, 1 on 1 Sept
  tschutchensis   1 on 1 Sept
leucopsis x alboides W Wag 1 on 20 Aug

Daurian Starling         1m on 28 Aug (first record for HKIA) , 5 on 31 Aug, 1m on 1 Sept (total 7 birds)
Wh.-sh'ldered Starling   2 on 28 Aug

Pin-tailed Whydah        1 on 1 Sept (an escape, but the first record for HKIA)


Cheers
Mike

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kmike

Hi Louis

The waders are on the turf and in the drained are of the ponds.

Please not this site is not open to the public. It can still be viewed from the walkway that leads from the northeast corner of Terminal 2 towards the Marriott Hotel and Asiaworld Expo.

Cheers
Mike

kmike

More good migrants again at the Roundabout:

Black-crowned Night Heron 5
Grey Heron 1
Chinese Pond heron 2
Cattle Egret 1

Swintail Snipe 1
Green Sandpiper 1
Long-toed Stint 1
Little Ringed Plover 12
Common Sandpiper 3

Red Turtle Dove
Common Kingfisher

Eastern Yellow Wagtail 12
Richard's Pipit 1

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher 3
Eastern Crowned Warbler 1
Zitting Cisticola 2

Yellow-breasted Bunting 1

kmike

10 September 2015
Intermediate Egret (first for Chek Lap Kok) 1
Great Egret 1
Grey Heron 1
Black-crowned Night Heron 1


Long-toed Stint (juv) 1
LRP 6
Common Sandpiper 1

Common Kingfisher 1
White-throated Kingfisher 1
Red Turtle Dove 3

Eastern Yellow Wagtail 12

Zitting Cisticola 3
Oriental Reed Warbler 1

Asian Brown Flycatcher 1

Cheers
Mike