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Mike Kilburn just call me that he is now watching a big falcon, probably a Saker from Tower hide at Mai Po.

Allen

15/3/2008
Mai Po

Thanks Mike for inform the message of Saker Falcon.

As requested by Mike, photos attached for id use. Sorry for poor quality.

And Peter has better and closer photos. Please post. Thanks.

kpokuen

Images take by PWMK.
(Thank Mike for the inforamtion)

kmike

These photos are very interesting - thank for posting Allen and Peter/Michelle.

I thinnk they show different birds.

The bird I saw was paler like Allen's pix, but also showed strong streaking on the breast.

I think Peter & Michelle's pix are of a Peregrine, as are Jacky' wonderful pix of the falcon with the Black-headed Gull. Both birds show much more of a dark hood than the bird I saw, which had a huge white supercilium with a pale coffee-coloured head. It also showed a tail that was distinctly longer than the primaries.

I was confident of my identification of a Saker this morning, but the pix posted here of at least 2 other Peregrines is making me a bit nervous!  Hoping at leat one of the very poor digipix I took this morning on other peoples' cameras will come out ok.

Hoping to go back for another look tomorrow morning.

Cheers
Mike K