Tai Po Kau and Kowloon Walled City Park 22 Dec 2019 - White-spectacled Warbler finally!!!!

We finally got our reward after 33 visits for the White-spectacled Warbler - a distant bird was found outside the wave when I was playing the Collared Owlet call!

Besides, we also heard a real Collared Owlet, still the Plain Flowerpecker, Two-barred Warbler, and a weird looking Brown Shrike. Not much else even we bumped a big wave, anyway, still a remarkable day in Tai Po Kau.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S62519376

We then headed to Kowloon Walled City Park, for the Chestnut-tailed Starling which we saw two there. This is a species we all saw in Kowloon Park long time ago so we aimed to get some better record, and its status is rather uncertain in HK. Also, an Asian Azure-winged Magpie was also seen there, quite an unexpected species outside New Territories.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S62520343

And my 2019 HK Big Year is finally 300.

a nice breakfast

White-spectacled Warbler - FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

White-spectacled Warbler - showing the undertail

White-spectacled Warbler - I found this spectacled warbler first and wonder if this would be other species... until I saw the broken eyering!!!!!

White-spectacled Warbler - probably a green-crowned morph

Chestnut Bulbul

Yellow-cheeked Tit

Yellow-cheeked Tit

Huet's Fulvetta

Huet's Fulvetta

Mountain Bulbul

Chestnut Bulbul

Chestnut-tailed Starling

Chestnut-tailed Starling - remember our days in Kowloon Park

Chestnut-tailed Starling

Chestnut-tailed Starling

Chestnut-tailed Starling - taking off

Chestnut-tailed Starling

Chestnut-tailed Starling

Oriental Magpie Robin

Asian Azure-winged Magpie by iPhone

nice dessert

and sushi dinner!