Tai Lam 27 Oct 2019 - simple is happy

We made another visit to Tai Lam mainly for better photos of the Brown Wood Owl, but it just showed to us at 5:45am without light, even perching well..... Anyway, no luck today.

Still, simple birding is happy enough for me. No exciting founds were made, we heard Speckled Piculet, even though it was a little bit responsive, saw a migrating Eurasian Hobby, Lesser Shortwing, Hartert's Leaf Warbler and heard a Radde's Warbler (no time to wait!), Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler, a single Verditer Flycatcher, and the best one should be the female White-throated Rock Thrush.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S60962328

The WTRT is added and now the HK 2019 Big Year is 269.

Eurasian Hobby

Yellow-browed Warbler - we saw a Hartert's Leaf Warbler in a flock of Yellow-browed Warbler but we failed to take any shots.....

female White-throated Rock Thrush - I flushed this bird and I thought this was Tiger Shrike in flight lol.... Anyway not a lifer but still my first time to see a female in HK.

Chinese Mountain Snake - really forgot this little beauty