brendank

11 September 2011 - pm

1 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (a very unsatisfying 1 second view)
1 Oriental Reed Warbler
1 Plaintive Cuckoo (juvenile)
1 Yellow Bittern
1 Crested Serpent Eagle
4 Greater Painted Snipe
2 Common Snipe
15 Pintail/Swinhoe's Snipe
3 Chinese Starling

brendank

15 Sep 2011

A day of difficult to see birds and view photos...

1 small crake (I believe it was a Baillon's Crake by its small size and reddish-toned back; ran across the trail near the lily ponds at dusk)
1 Pheasant-tailed Jacana (seen for a second near the north end)
1 Whimbrel (looking slightly out of place--dont remember seeing one here before)
2 Common Greenshank
2 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (seen only briefly in flight when flushed)
3 Red-billed Starlings

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15/09/2011 23:11

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brendank

25 Sep 2011 - PM

1 Small Crake (flushed from the short grass into tall grass, the most likely seems to be immature Baillon's Crake)
1 Pechora's Pipit (seen when I went to look for the crake with John Allcock)
1 Manchurian Reed Warbler?? (see ID section)
2 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
1 Northern Hobby

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25/09/2011 19:18

brendank

Can I ask where the Daurian Starlings are?

brendank

Haha, good to hear about the Watercock!!  I saw it in flight and I got one bad shot but I was starting to doubt myself. I will post my photo later.

I can add that there are now two Manchurian Reed Warblers around a pond at the north end.  These two Manchurian Reed Warblers are around a pond at the north end.  It is a pond which is mainly mud but there are some lillypads in the center.  The pond is next to a old greenhouse (which now doesn't have any glass left).

A Pechora Pipit was seen also perching on a wire and a Schrenk's and Yellow Bittern and at least 3 Pallas's Grasshopper Warblers were flushed from the tall green grass.

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brendank

Here is the only photo of the Watercock that I could get. It flew out in front of me and into the rice and I couldn't find it again.  I think some of the photographers may have got a better photo.

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26/09/2011 21:37

brendank

The two Manchurian Reed Warblers were observed today again in the spot described earlier. There were also 2 Pechora Pipits and Red-collared Dove present today.

The pond which I described previously as mostly mud with lillypads in the center is now filled with water due to the typhoon.

brendank

7 October 2011 - am

1 juv. Slaty-breasted Rail (nice long, close look)
1 Northern Hobby
1 Besra (perching on telephone wires--normally dont see them do that)
4 Pacific Golden Plover
2 Pechora Pipit
4 Black-browed Reed Warbler
2 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
1 Plaintive Cuckoo
1 Brown Shrike

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7/10/2011 22:52

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7/10/2011 22:52

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brendank

The Little Bunting is an extremely early date according to the Avifauna.

brendank

I have the impression that many migrants have been early this year. Japanese Paradise and Yellow-rumped Flycatchers in August. Yellow-browed Bunting in September. It seemed some of the commoner birds such as Stonechats and Dusky Warblers seemed to arrive early to me too.

brendank

11 Oct 2011 - am

2 Besra
1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
1 Eurasian Hobby
3 Red-collared Dove
2 Spotted Redshank

A Bamboo Viper was found dead on one of the trails.

brendank

The thread is here for some reason:

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/redi ... o=lastpost#lastpost

brendank

18 Oct 2011 - am

3 Crested Honey Buzzard (in a flock heading south)
4 Spotted Redshank
4 Painted Snipe
1 Slaty-breasted Rail (likely same bird that was seen last week)
2 Yellow Bittern
1 Eurasian Skylark
4 Oriental Reed Warbler
4 Black-browed Reed Warbler
3 Plaintive Cuckoo
1 Yellow-breasted Bunting

brendank

20 October 2011

I heard second hand that a Greater White-fronted Goose was seen at Long Valley and flew off but I don't know more than that.

1 Japanese Sparrowhawk
1 Common Buzzard
1 Yellow Bittern
1 Eurasian Hoopoe
1 Red-collared Dove
1 Brown Shrike
3 Yellow-breasted Bunting
2 Little Bunting
4 Black-browed Reed Warbler

brendank

That looks more like a Greater White-fronted Goose to me. The mantle doesn't have the pale "barring" I would expect on a Greylag. The grinning patch suggests a Greylag but the upper parts look so brown more like a White-fronted. Possible hybrid?

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brendank

Pictures are quite good--clearly Greylag.

brendank

27 Oct 2011

1 Amur Falcon
4 Eastern Buzzard
1 Grey-headed Lapwing
1 Red-collared Dove
4 Spotted Redshank
1 Pechora Pipit
1 Eurasian Skylark
1 Black-browed Reed Warbler
1 Oriental Reed Warbler
12 Yellow-breasted Bunting
3 Chestnut-eared Bunting
1 Little Bunting

brendank

2 November 2011 - am

1 Amur Falcon -- perched at close range near the rice fields
1 Eastern Marsh Harrier--my first time seeing it at LV
1 Common Kestrel
8 Spotted Redshank
14 Chinese Blackbird
1 Eurasian Skylark
10 Yellow-breasted Bunting
2 Russet Sparrow
3 Black-browed Reed Warbler

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brendank

10 Nov 2011

1 Pechora Pipit (will it winter here?)
1 Black-headed Bunting
4 Yellow-breasted Bunting
3 Eurasian Skylark
2 Black-browed Reed Warbler
1 Oriental Reed Warbler
20 Chinese Blackbird

brendank

14 Nov 2011 - am

1 Amur Falcon (late)
3 Eurasian Skylark
5 Chestnut-eared Bunting
2 Black-browed Reed Warbler
1 Brown Shrike

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14/11/2011 21:55

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brendank

21 Nov 2011

1 Japanese Quail
1 Japanese Sparrowhawk
1 Eurasian Hoopoe
2 Chestnut-eared Bunting
16 Yellow-breasted Bunting
1 Little Bunting
1 Black-browed Reed Warbler
1 Eurasian Skylark