handrew

At 5.45pm today 2 flocks of egrets flew SSE over Sai Kung - the flocks were approx 200 birds followed a minute later by another ~150. Thy were distant but looked large and were flying vigorously and I would venture they were Great egrets but I am open to contradiction. As they flew past the town and out of sight of our home in Chuk Yeung Road they showed no sign of slowing or reducing height.

Andrew

handrew

Er........ no!

handrew

We get a few Egrets around here. Great, Little and Cattle all occur and in Spring we had a large presumed dispersal flock of Littles with a few Cattle egret thrown in - they stayed for about a month and then moved on. There were half a dozen at Kei Ling Ha Lo Wai this morning along with a nice phyllosc in the mangroves associating with Tailorbirds - probably an Arctic I would hazard. But I haven't seen a flock this size before, here.

[ Last edited by handrew at 2/10/2010 07:07 ]

handrew

Thanks Geoff. Very interesting.