San Tin and Mai Po 16 Nov 2019 - no shrike day

We visited San Tin first to find some news species, but eventually we dipped many things which Graham and Mike saw, like Eurasian Jay and Himalayan Swiftlet, while for us, we saw Greater Spotted Eagle, Black-winged Kite, Little Bunting and the best of the day -  a Rustic Bunting found by Wallace.

Checklist of San Tin: https://ebird.org/checklist/S61483597

Whiskered Tern

Richard's Pipit - note the strong bill

Little Bunting

Great Crested Grebe

Great Crested Grebe and Tufted Duck and Little Grebe

Black-winged Kite in flight

Common Snipe - note the longish bill and bold streaks on scapulars

Rustic Bunting - note the reddish flank

Good Lunch

Cold Beer

After lunch, we headed to Mai Po, mainly for the Chinese Grey shrike again but we dipped, still we saw the Black-winged Kite, same female Ferruginous Duck, 2 Eastern Spotbill Duck, 4 Yellow-fronted Canary and a White’s Thrush (which was firstly identified as wryneck and very responsive to wryneck playback lol........💀💀).

Checklist of Mai Po: https://ebird.org/checklist/S61483313

And my 2019 HK Big Year is 282.

Temminck's Stint

Ferruginous Duck

Ferruginous Duck - brownish red head, black iris and white vent are key ID features

Ferruginous Duck - more white vent, always find for white vent in Aythya in HK

Black-winged Kite

Black-winged Kite

Long-tailed Shrike dark morph

Nice sunset