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Title: Chebaling Post by Koel_Ko on Apr 6th, 2004, 3:40pm We visited Chebaling for just a brief 3 days (3/4/04-5/4/04) but was enraptured with the sight of the primary forests and a habitat not found in Hong Kong, the forested ravines with a pebbled river running in between. Spring migration was not strong there but we picked up a few residents, sharing below. :D http://pic9.picturetrail.com/VOL264/2073128/4021043/50269142.jpg Plumbeous Redstart female 4/4/04 http://pic9.picturetrail.com/VOL264/2073128/4021043/50269121.jpg Crested Kingfisher male 4/4/04 Red-headed Trogons and a White-eared Heron were noted also in the trip. They gave an air of mystery about the reserve that but those who have visited could apprehend. |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by Captain on Apr 6th, 2004, 4:19pm White-eared Night Heron?? Pls give more description - a flying bird over the main stream? Did they make any calls? Did they carry any sticks or fish? Every sighting of this endangered spp is important. Thanks, Captain |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by Koel_Ko on Apr 8th, 2004, 10:21am Dear Captain, The Night Heron, so the guide says, is a common sight at a section of valley in Chebaling provided one knows the time and location to find them. I did not see the Night Heron but 2 of our 'team' members did. They described it as a dark shadow of a bird the size of a hawk flying over the valley after making a call 'good good', deep and loud. The wingbeats and flight stance, they held, was distinctive. We tried to find it the next evening but was only awarded with a call which the guide held also was the night heron's: a deep, eerie, pounding 'hoop'. Later the guide added that the heron has an array of different calls, some emitted when perched, some in flight etc. As the guide told us many Hong Kong birders have visited chebaling and seen the heron there. The sightings invariably are around 7 o'clock at night or around 8 in the morning, when the heron might be found returning to the daytime roost. Hope the above helps. 8) |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by William Wong on Apr 8th, 2004, 10:30pm Have you seen the 'Black Browed Barbet also. A 'Black Browed Barbet' was seen during our visit to Chebaling in last year X'mas holiday. Which type of birds you have seen during your visit? |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by Falcon on Apr 9th, 2004, 1:09pm 我地今次聽到好多...不過都係睇唔到... :-[...今次睇到: Little Grebe x2 Chinese Pond Heron 1 White-eared Night Heron x1H/S Striated Heron x2 Crested Serpent Eagle x1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk x1 Barn Swallow Red-rumped Swallow Grey Wagtail White Wagtail Collard Finchbill Red-whiskered Bubul Chinese Bubul Mountain Bubul Chestnut Bubul Long-tailed Shrike Brown Dipper Plumbeous Redstart Slaty-backed Forktail White-crowned Forktail Sibarian Stonechat Blue Whistling Thrush Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Rufous-capped Babbler Greater Necklaced Laughing Thrush Grey-cheeked Fulvetta Striated Yuhina Yellow-bellied Prinia Plain Prinia Black-throuted Tit Great Tit Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Fork-tailed Sunbird Japanese White-eye Chinese Bamboo Partridge H/S Silver Pheasant White-breasted Waterhen Oriental Turtle Dove Chestnut-winged Cuckoo H Large Hawk Cuckoo H Greater Cuocal Oriental Scops Owl H Collared Owlet H Asian Barred Owlet H Grey Nightjar?? H Little Swift Red-headed Trogon S/H Crested Kingfisher Blyth's Kingfisher x1 Common Kingfisher Great Barbet H Black-browed Barbet H Grey-headed Woodpecker Bay Woodpecker H White-rumped Munia Hair-crested Drongo Blue Magpie Grey Treepie Magpie 只係可惜見唔到White-eared Night Heron... :-[ |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by William Wong on Apr 10th, 2004, 11:19pm With reference to your records and our records of December 2003, no Flycatcher of any kind was seen and also very poor in record of Bunting. We has seen a Tristram's Bunting in the paddy filed of Chebaling only. |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by Koel_Ko on Apr 12th, 2004, 8:47pm We surmise that chebaling lies just aside of the normal migration route of the bulk of passerines we enjoy seeing so much in hong kong. The environment there looks more than suitable to the migrants. :) |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by Uncle_Tall on Apr 12th, 2004, 9:21pm When I go through the checklist published in the Hong Kong Bird Report 1995 and from Richard Lewthwaite for visits from 1995 to 99, I noticed that the number of species and the collective number of flycatchers and buntings in Spring for Che Ba Ling was not that much: For your reference: Hainan Blue flycatcher 1 Blue and white 2 Asian Brown 4 Red throated 1 Mugimaki 1 Yellow -rumped 1 Black-faced bunting 10 yellow-browed 1 little bunting 42 Chestnut bunting 20 yellow-breasted 8 (all from our visit on 2-4, May 1999) There are much more flycatchers (both in species and in numbers) recorded at Ba Bao Shan in spring. I hope somebody is continously collecting these sort of data. |
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Title: Re: Chebaling Post by TH_Kwan on Apr 12th, 2004, 11:10pm Just want to share with you another photo of the Crested Kingfisher. This picture revealed the characteristic brown patch near the chin. It is a pity that a few White eared night herons 海南虎斑鳽 were shot down in the past few years for the sake of displaying them as preserved specimens! This seems a bit too much for such a critically endangered species. http://community.webshots.com/s/image11/1/19/47/133511947KCRZWq_ph.jpg http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/th_kwan/thkwan_003.jpg |
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