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San Tin fishponds and Main Drainage Channel

San Tin fishponds and Main Drainage Channel

A good day for migrants at the eastern edge of San Tin fishponds and along the Main Drainage Channel. there are several partly drained and/or partly vegetated fishponds that were very attractive for waders and passerines:
Eurasian Teal
Kestrel

Avocet 60
Black-winged Stilt 5
Wood Sandpiper 59
Marsh Sandpiper 5
Green Sandpiper1
Common Sandpiper 5
Common Snipe 2
Long-toed Stint 1
Temminck's Stint 31
Red-necked Stint 3
Grey-headed Lapwing 1
LRP 30
Kentish Plover 3

Whiskered Tern 21

Red Turtle Dove 7
Bull-headed Shrike 1
Black Drongo 8

White-shouldered Starling 12
Daurian Starling 1

Pale Martin 2
Barn Swallow 12

Daurian Redstart 1 m
Siberian Rubythroat 1m

Yellow Wagtail - 4 (macronyx)
Ocularis White Wagtail - 2
Red-throated Pipit 6
Buff-bellied Pipit 1
Richard's Pipit 2

Dusky Warbler 31
Black-browed Reed Warbler 11
Oriental Reed Warbler 5

Asian Brown Flycatcher 3
Taiga Flycatcher 1

Chestnut-eared Bunting 3
Yellow-breasted Bunting 1
Black-faced Bunting 1

Cheers
Mike

[ Last edited by kmike at 22/10/2017 21:53 ]
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee

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apologies - typo - now corrected
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee

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Another day with good numbers of migrants at San Tin fishponds:
Japanese Sparrowhawk
Common Teal - 6

Black-winged Stilt 16
Avocet 2
Grey-headed Lapwing 1
Fantail Snipe 1
Temminck's Stint 1

Green Sandpiper 2
Common Greenshank - 2
Wood Sandpiper 5
Common Sandpiper 6
LRP 12

Stejneger's Stonechat 15
Siberian Rubythroat 2
Taiga Flycatcher 1

Red Turtle Dove 5
Oriental Turtle Dove 3

Northern Skylark 3

Dusky Warbler 85 (minimum)
YBW 3
Black-browed Reed Warbler 6
Oriental Reed Warbler 12
Zitting Cisticola 5

Chestnut-eared Bunting 4
Little Bunting 1
Black-faced Bunting 1

White-cheeked Starling 2 (also 8 last Sunday)
White-shouldered Starling 8
Red-billed Starling 12

Cheers
Mike
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee

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More migrants today at San Tin:
Eastern Buzzard 3
Eurasian Kestrel 1
Peregrine 1

Tufted Duck 1
Common Teal 6

Japanese Quail 1
Coot 1

BW Stilt 12
Greenshank 1
Marsh Sandpiper 1
Wood Sandpiper 12
Green Sandpiper 2
Common Sandpiper 2
Fantail Snipe 2
LRP 12
Temminck's Stint 1

Plaintive Cuckoo
Red Turtle Dove 5
Oriental Turtle Dove 2

Northern Skylark 3

Yellow Wagtail 6
Olive-backed Pipit 2
Richard's Pipit 3
Red-troated Pipit 2

Bull-headed Shrike 1 female

Siberian Rubythroat 1

Oriental Reed Warbler 6
Black-browed Reed Warbler 5
Dusky Warbler 60
YBW 1

Yellow-breasted Bunting 1
Little Bunting 1
Chestnut-eared Bunting 1

Silky Starling 12 (2 dyed yellow)
White-cheeked Starling 2

Cheers
Mike

[ Last edited by kmike at 30/10/2017 19:30 ]
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee

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