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Topic: Long Valley Outing Report 塱原觀鳥活動報告 04/10/2003 (Read 601 times) |
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Mike Kilburn
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Long Valley Outing Report 塱原觀鳥活動報告 04/10/2003
« on: Oct 5th, 2003, 9:30am » |
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A well-attended outing to Long Valley was rather quiet. The highlights were a pair of Painted Snipe and at least 20 migrant Black Drongos.
Other birds of interest included:
1 Garganey (female)
1 Kestrel
1 Green Sandpiper
60+ Wood Sandpiper
6 Black-winged Stilt
30+ Little Ringed Plover
c.5 Swintal Snipe
c.5 Fantail Snipe
2 White-throated Kingfisher
2 Common Kingfisher
1 Red Turtle Dove
40 + Yellow Wagtail
1 Grey Wagtail
10+ White Wagtail
8 Stonechat
1 Dusky Warbler
2 Oriental Reed Warbler
8 Chinese Starling
50+ Black-necked Starling
10 Crested Mynah
2 Collared Crow
Many thanks to all those who came and contirbuted to a very enjoyable outing.
Mike
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Re: Society Outing to Long Valley
« Reply #1 on: Oct 5th, 2003, 3:48pm » |
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Thanks Mike and others for the effort and assistance during the outing!
Here are some photographs I taken during the outing:
Little ringed plover
White wagtail
Rufous-backed shrike
Siberian stonechat
Kestrel
Black drongo
Collared crow
Yellow wagtail
Common sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Garganey
Black-winged stilt
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Mike Kilburn
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Re: Society Outing to Long Valley
« Reply #2 on: Oct 6th, 2003, 9:39am » |
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Hi Lynx
A great set of pix to represent the birds we saw that day!
However I will point out that your picture of Wood Sandpiper is a actually a Green Sandpiper.
Why?
a)The colour of the back and wings is a plain green with no streaks or spots.
b) The breast band is gery-green and also plain with no streaks or spots.
c) If you compare with the Common Sandpiper above you will see that the white of the breast extends up towards the back of Common Sand, but not on Green Sand.
d) This picture heavily emphasises the white supercilium in front of the eye which Green Sandpiper can show, but which may suggest Wood Sandpiper. This is a good example of the need to check more than one feature before making an identity.
Cheers
Mike
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Re: Society Outing to Long Valley
« Reply #4 on: Oct 7th, 2003, 9:57am » |
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I would also like to take a little space to thank everyone during this trip. It has been really eye opening! 
Griffin.
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Apache Lau+Joanna Lam
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Re: Society Outing to Long Valley
« Reply #5 on: Oct 7th, 2003, 11:23am » |
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Dear all
Additional for Long Valley
1) Silky Starling 1 (spotted from starting point next to the toilet, we were far behind the group, this bird was just very closed to the main group).
2) Fantail Warbler 1 (around the highland track to Lotus pond).
3) 4 pairs of Painted Snipe (around 1815 they all came out feeding).
Apache + Joanna
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