tmichael

Hong Kong's bird of the decade? One of Japanese Murrelet or White-tailed Tropicbird certainly - probably the former?

Would have been the pterodroma petrel at Mai Po on 17 March 2001, if only we'd managed to nail the id.

Don't listen to any claims for White-billed Diver.

I thought Geoff's Ortolan was a pretty amazing record too - up there with Grey-necked Bunting (17 March 1990, also at Mai Po, by staggering coincidence - the luck of the Irish, I guess!)

Mike Turnbull

tmichael

In fact let's all hope the best is yet to come - Crested Shelduck off the Boardwalk?? - but this impromptu review of the "noughties" to date shows there have been a lot of pretty amazing records in these years.

Black Scoter was, I would have thought, one of the more forgettable ones; that's how I try to treat it anyway!

Mike Turnbull