Mai Po - Weds 26 & Fri 28 Mar 08
These two days have produced some good birds at Mai Po, with a good variety of gulls, and waders :
Temminck's Stint - 8
Red-necked Stint - 30
Spoon-billed Sandpiper - 1 (not seen by me)
Sanderling - 1
Curlew Sandpiper - 20
Dunlin - 10
Great Knot - 20
Red Knot - 1
Broad-billed Sandpiper - 1
Terek Sandpiper - 4
Nordmann's Greenshank - 1
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Redshank - 1
Spotted Redshank - 30
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Little Ringed Plover
Greater Sandplover - 5
Kentish Plover
Grey Plover
Grey-headed Lapwing - 1
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1
Common Snipe
Eurasian Curlew
Eastern Curlew - 1
Whimbrel - 1
Avocet
Black-winged Stilt
Oriental Pratincole - 2
(also Greater Painted Snipe and "Swintail" Snipe were at Long Valley)
Gulls:
Black-headed Gull
Saunders' Gull - 1
Kamchatka Gull - 1
Black-tailed Gull - 2
Heuglin's Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Vega Gull - 1
Slaty-backed Gull - 2
There were also 4 Falcated Duck (3 females and 1 male) from the new hide
Cheers
Mike K
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee