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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #15 on: Nov 26th, 2005, 10:16pm » |
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i saw the night heron in the river (kind of channelized) before i enter the cultivated area.
I saw one blackbird in the cultivated area.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #16 on: Nov 30th, 2005, 1:01pm » |
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30th November 2005 8am to 11.30am; overcast, humid
Chinese pond heron 3
Little egret 2
Black kite
White-breastedwaterhen
Oriental turtle dove
Spotted dove
Common koel
Greater coucal
White-throated kingfisher
Tree sparrow
Olive-backed pipit
Grey wagtail
White wagtail
Black-winged cuckoo-shrike
Red-whiskered bulbul
Chinese bulbul
Sooty-headed bulbul
Chestnut bulbul
Magpie robin
Stonechat
Daurian redstart 1M 2F
Blackbird 7
Yellow-bellied prinia
Dusky warbler
Tailorbird
Asian brown flycatcher 2
Masked laughing-thrush
Black-throated laughing-thrush
Fork-tailed sunbird
Scarlet-bcked flowerpecker
Japanese white-eye
Long-tailed shrike
Hair-crested drongo
Red-billed starling
Black-collared starling
Crested myna
White-rumped munia
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #17 on: Dec 5th, 2005, 1:36pm » |
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2 trips to Ho Chung this weekend - Saturday am and Sunday pm after a very late Saturday night moth-trapping at Ron Clibborn-Dyer's temple. I had hoped for something different with the cold front arriving but the lists above remain constant.
I had excellent views of Lesser coucal, which for some reason I find hard to find on a regular basis. A Common kingfisher was hunting up and down the stream.
Glorious walking despite the relative quiet in birding terms. My Hair-crested drongo count was up to 9 in a flock on Saturday.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #18 on: Dec 10th, 2005, 12:30pm » |
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10th Dec 05, 9.15 - 11.45am
A good bunting day. In the lower valley, Little buntings on the cultivated flower beds. At the top of the valley where there is a bridge over the stream and the trees and bushes are a little denser, Chestnut bunting (female) and Tristram's bunting. As a bonus in the same location, from the bridge I saw 2 Scaly thrushes and a Blue whistling thrush. Each of these was new for the site for me.
Crested serpent eagle passed over twice. A Stonechat was on the wires low down in the valley - this time a male.
The only other observation was that the Dusky warblers were singing in between their usual tschak-tschak call. They would pop up on to the plant sticks, sing briefly then drop down again.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #19 on: Dec 16th, 2005, 1:08pm » |
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15/12/05 16:00-18:00
018 小白鷺 Little Egret
022 池鷺 Chinese Pond Heron
080 普通鵟 Common Buzzard 1
136 磯鷸 Common Sandpiper
194 珠頸斑鳩 Spotted Dove
226 小白腰雨燕 Little Swift 30+
229 普通翠鳥 Common Kingfisher
257 灰鶺鴒 Grey Wagtail
258 白鶺鴒 White Wagtail
260 樹鷚 Olive-backed Pipit
270 紅耳鵯 Red-whiskered Bulbul
271 白頭鵯 Chinese Bulbul
273 栗背短腳鵯 Chestnut Bulbul (H)
279 棕背伯勞 Long-tailed Shrike
287 鵲鴝 Oriental Magpie Robin
292 黑喉石(即鳥) Common Stonechat
310 紅頭穗(眉鳥) Rufous-capped Babbler (H)
314 黑喉噪(眉鳥) Black-throated Laughingthrush (5+) & (2+)
315 畫眉 Hwamei (H)
345 灰頭鷦鶯 Yellow-bellied Prinia
347 長尾縫葉鶯 Common Tailorbird
354 黃眉柳鶯 Yellow-browed Warbler (H)
421 斑文鳥 Scaly-breasted Munia 25+
427 絲光椋鳥 Red-billed Starling 7
433 黑領椋鳥 Black-collared Starling
436 八哥 Crested Myna
440 髮冠卷尾 Hair-crested Drongo 3+
442 紅嘴藍鵲 Blue Magpie (H)
444 喜鵲 Common Magpie
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #20 on: Dec 16th, 2005, 8:47pm » |
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Your record of 30+ Pacific Swifts is a bit of a "stand out" in your list of birds for Ho Chung yesterday.
I just wonder if it isn't more likely that they were Little Swifts as a feature of colder winter days in this area (I live about a kilometre from Ho Chung, at Hing Keng Shek) is flocks of that species feeding quite low over the wooded hillsides - in fact they were doing that here yesterday (15/12). Pacific Swift is very much a "Sai Kung bird" but seems to be a summer visitor, and is absent in winter.
Just a thought!
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #21 on: Dec 16th, 2005, 9:03pm » |
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Oh yes, they were actually Little Swifts - I picked the wrong name on the excel list. Sorry! 
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #22 on: Dec 17th, 2005, 11:49am » |
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17th December 05
I didn't go into the lower valley today but went right up to the top and birded the trail up there. I missed a couple of thrushes that disappeared too quickly for me but saw Grey-headed Flycatcher, Scarlet minivet (1F), Hwamei x2 and maybe a dozen Chestnut bulbuls. Between 9.15 and 10.45 there was a lot of activity but really hard to get on to the birds. I find the further I go along this trail the less I see and the first half mile or so, up the climb ad left past the house is the best birding.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #23 on: Dec 17th, 2005, 9:20pm » |
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I'd agree with you on that Andrew, although (a) I did encounter one of HK's first Pygmy Wren Babblers further in, (b) I believe that's where Daniel Philippe had Small Niltava in the late 90's (!) and (c) it seems to be the stronghold for the local population of Grey-cheeked Fulvettas.
Generally the stretch up to the house (ie the one that seems to be being reconverted in possibly Islamic style) and then left as far as the stream does indeed seem to be the best - having had two Rufous-faced Warblers (93 and 04), Chinese Blue Flycatcher (93) , Bianchi's Warbler and pretty much all the regular migrants and winter visitors you'd expect.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #24 on: Dec 17th, 2005, 10:59pm » |
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The woods up above the house, both left and right from the junction, are good for thrushes, and if you take the path that leads up towards the graveyard on the slopes of Fei Ngo Shan, the big views are good for Bonelli's Eagle, while above on Fei Ngo Shan you can find Large Grass Warbler and Upland Pipit. I aslo had 4 Bright-capped Cisticola on Buffalo Hill a little further over towards Ma On Shan in Feb this year.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #25 on: Dec 18th, 2005, 10:20am » |
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Good to know - thanks Mike(s). Pleased to see Ho Chung is getting some attention. When I first went there a couple of months ago with Martin Williams he wasn't sure anyone was covering the area but clearly thats not the case.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #26 on: Dec 18th, 2005, 10:32pm » |
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Best bird in woods today was Blyth's Leaf Warbler (non-goodsoni type). I also actually saw Rufous-capped Babbler for the first time today further back along the Catchwater.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #27 on: Dec 20th, 2005, 6:48pm » |
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A record shot from this morning's walk at Ho Chung.
Little bunting numbers are picking up. I also went to the Clearwater Bay CP in the afternoon and at one stage had Black kite, Common buzzard and White-bellied sea-eagle in my sight at the same time!
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #28 on: Dec 22nd, 2005, 9:27pm » |
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A late morning walk produced more Little buntings today and also the Lemon-breasted canary reported by BH. Do cage birds get released for the winter solstice?
A common kingfisher was on the stream and a Common buzzard overhead. Male and female Daurian redstarts on the cultivated areas. A few Little swifts around (also overhead my house late afternoon). I haven't been up to the woods for a few days but may go Friday.
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Re: Ho Chung 蠔涌 2005 Winter 冬
« Reply #29 on: Dec 23rd, 2005, 8:16pm » |
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23rd December 2005
Best birds all flycatchers today
Verditer flycatcher - this has been around for at least a week but I only got a really good look at it today
Asian brown flycatcher
possible Red-throated flycatcher (see photo for ID in BBS section) - this bird has also been around for a few weeks but I couldn't get decent views or photos until today.
Daurian redstart (male and female)
A Blackbird was caught under the netting over the flowers. I presume the birds get out eventually by trial and error. There was a Chinese pond heron flapping like mad last weekend and that did find a way out.
Andrew
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