lrichard

Birds seen from the old boardwalk hide on the falling tide this afternoon:

Heuglin's Gulls & associates 455
Glaucous Gull 1/w still there
Slaty-backed Gull 3-4
Kamtchatka Gull 1/w
Black-tailed Gull 1 only
Saunders's Gull 33

Curlew Sandpiper 300+ (influx)
Kentish PLover 750
Dunlin 30+
Broad-billed Sand 13
Red-necked Stint 10

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk falling tide 20 March 2012

Caspian Tern 4
Gull-billed Tern 1

Slaty-backed Gull 1/w
Black-tailed Gull 6 (all 1/y)

Curlew Sandpiper 620 +
Red-necked Stint 65

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 21 March 2012 (tide much higher than predicted)

About 30 species of shorebirds present including

Curlew Sandpiper 2080 (influx)
Spoon-billed Sandpiper 1
Broad-billed Sandpiper 16
Red-necked Stint 66
Great Knot 20
Red Knot 1
Nordmann's Greenshank 3
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Ruff 1

Also:

Great Crested grebe 68
Caspian Tern 4
Gull-billed Tern 1
Slaty-backed Gull 1/w

lrichard

I forgot to mention for 21 March 2012:

Pacific Golden Plover 153
Sanderling 1

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 22 March 2012

Spoon-billed Sandiper (not seen by me, but photo'd by John & Jemi Holmes)
Pacific Golden Plover 570
Black-tailed Godwit 354
Nordmann's Greenshank 1

Glaucous Gull again

lrichard

Birds in front of the Mai Po boardwalk today (27 March 2012):

Caspian Tern 82 (influx)

Glaucous Gull still
Black-tailed Gull 6
Saunders's Gull 3


Also an Oriental Plover was seen on the scrape today (though not by me)

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 30 March 2012

Kentish P{lover 4
Great Knot c 80 (fly-by flock)
Red-necked Stint 110
Temminck's Stint 12
Broad=billed Sandpiper 8
Black-tailed Godwit 70 (all summer-plumaged except for 4)
Bar-tailed Godwit 5 (all winter-plumaged)
Long-billed Dowitcher 1 (coming into summer plumage)

Slaty-backed Gull 1
Heuglin's Gull 78
Mongolian Gull 3
Black-tailed Gull 8
Saunders's Gull 5
Caspian Tern 64
Gull-billed Tern 22 (all black-capped except 1)

lrichard

Additions to Annika's list for 5 April:

Great Crested Grebe 24
Swinhoe's Egret 1 typical ad bp and 1 strange-looking bird (beginnings of shaggy crest; bill yellow at base, blackish at tip) - Kinni got photos, I think
Kentish Plovere 11
Eastern Curlew 5
Nordmann's Greenshank 24 (Tung's count)
Asian Dowitcher 2
Red Knot 1 bp ssp rogersi
Temminck's Stint 4
Saunders's Gull 3
Caspian Tern 76
Gull-billed Tern 108

lrichard

... better on the outgoing tide ...

Spoon-billed Sandpiper 2

lrichard

Seen from the old boardwalk hide, 18 April 2012

Spoon-billed Sandpiper 2 (found by John & Jemi) 1 coming into summer plumage, 1 still in winter plumage
Little Stint 2 summer-plumaged
Red-necked Stints - not counted but 100s
Asian Dowitcher 7

Saunders's Gull still one 1st-year

lrichard

Another very wet morning at Mai Po, 20 April 2012

Great Crested Grebe 1 on scrape
Asian Dowitcher 20 (exact count) boardwalk
Black-headed Gull 120 (all first-years) boardwalk
Gull-billed Tern 310 boardwalk