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(Message started by: kwan on Mar 13^th, 2003, 10:46am)

Title: Bull-headed Shrike 牛頭伯勞
Post by kwan on Mar 13^th, 2003, 10:46am

277 Bull-headed Shrike 牛頭伯勞
Wun Yiu 碗窯
08/3/2003
http://www.photounme.com/photo11/1143/m44688.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/kwan/kwanbhshrike01.jpg
A bull headed shrike was regularly seen at Wun Yiu last couple of weeks, this image was taken on 8 March.

It always perch on lamp post adjacent to the construction site.

Title: Re: bull headed shrike
Post by Mike Kilburn on Mar 14^th, 2003, 9:58am

Hi TH

Please could you report such sightings to the Chinese and English birdlines on the day you find them and each day you see them.

It means we can all enjoy them.

Is it still there? If so which area of Wun Yiu should we look?

Thanks

Mike

Title: Re: Bull-headed Shrike 牛頭伯勞
Post by TH_Kwan on Mar 15^th, 2003, 12:45am

Dear Mike,

I am afraid you might have mixed up "kwan" with "TH Kwan" ;D I am also very eager to find the Bull-head Shrke myself in WunYiu this week. Hope that this little creature is still hanging around that region. However, I do agree with your opinion concerning the use of birdline to report rare sightings. Actually I was one of those lucky guys who could see the Siberian Crane in December 2002. I was on vacation leave during that day. (It was a weekday!) I first read about the discovery of the Crane from newspaper, then I gathered more information from the BBS but it was the message from the birdline stating that the Crane was still there at 8am that motivated me to drive to MaiPo as soon as possible. Fortunately, I arrived there 15 minutes before the Crane flew back to Shenzhen! :P
Birdline has always been a very useful medium to me. Let's all try to contribute more to and benefit more from the birdline in future.
Cheers. :)

TH
(TH Kwan, dad of Matthew Kwan)

Title: Re: Bull-headed Shrike ????
Post by Mike Kilburn on Mar 17^th, 2003, 10:16am

Apologies for the mix up TH.
a regretful case of mistaken identity

Mike