tmichael

I think this may be a Grey-sided Thrush, and thus a first for HK.

If so, I am officially the first person to have dipped on it having spent the last 15 minutes of light looking for it, but seeing nothing more than a Pale Thrush - beware of that one!

Btw the park is open access - it's just the big car park that only opens at 9.30am. I guess there will be morning dog walkers in there early, and may be exercisers!

Quite a lot of parking elsewhere eg along the road past the entrance to the left towards Tsiu Hang village.

You can't miss the Lantern Bug, just by the veggies and the Dragonfly pond.

Also, amazing how you can re-write history these days ;-)

Mike Turnbull

tmichael

I too had become concerned I'd got caught up in a kind of collective hysteria over this bird.

I felt the first photo really didn't look like a Pale Thrush being, rather ironically too pale, but I guess what is lacking is the contrast between grey sides and a paler belly/central area.

The other pictures did look rather more Pale Thrush like.

Mike's points about relative sizes is informative.

Is it true that Pale Thrush doesn't always show white in the tail on reasonable flight views? It seems to me you never see it in photos of standing birds certainly.

Mike Turnbull.