Telford and Tai Lam 3 Nov 2019 - 3 weeks to go

Still 3 stressful weeks to go, so I just treasured any time I have for birding and having fun with my friends.

We visited Telford in the morning first and saw a Lesser Shortwing and a Black-browed Reed Warbler, sadly not a single Locustella before having a good lunch.

After tea, the next destination is Tai Lam, mainly for better photos of Brown Wood Owl, which came at 17:25 and the lighting was not really good for photos. Anyway, before the owl, we did see two bird waves in a single spot, species such as Speckled Piculet, Black-winged Cuckooshrike, White-bellied Erpornis, a Japanese Paradise Flycatcher, full of Phylloscopus include Yellow-browed, Pallas's, Eastern Crowned, Arctic, Sulphur-breasted and Hartert's Leaf Warbler goodsoni, Verditer Flycatcher and a well seen male Fire-breasted Flowerpecker.

HK 2019 Big Year is 271, not really sure I can get to 300 this year lol.....

Checklist of Telford: https://ebird.org/checklist/S61135543
Checklist of Tai Lam: https://ebird.org/checklist/S61138518

Lesser Shortwing

Lesser Shortwing - front view with the tiny white brow and throat. This maybe another split after the White-browed Shortwing complex, especially the male of subspecies carolinae in HK is not blue at all.

Lesser Shortwing - nice branch! Thank you Canon!

nice lunch

male Verditer Flycatcher

Hartert's Leaf Warbler

another Hartert's Leaf Warbler

Grey-chinned Minivet

Yellow-cheeked Tit

Speckled Piculet

Rufous-capped Babbler

Sulphur-breasted Warbler

Sulphut-breasted Warbler - again quite difficult to get a decent shot

Eastern Crowned Warbler

Japanese Paradise Flycatcher

Brown Wood Owl

Brown Wood Owl - they are getting more and more commoner in HK

Brown Wood Owl - not a good photo but watching big owl in close range is always exciting

Brown Wood Owl - testing my ISO limit.....

Brown Wood Owl

Brown Wood Owl