Not just birds: Multi Places 4 Apr 2020

2020年4月4日星期六

Multi Places 4 Apr 2020

A fruitful day in terms of walking but not birding. Our first stop to Long Valley, which targeted the Common Swift but we saw none, only Pacific Swift was seen.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S66593352

Black-winged Stilt

Asian Koel

Then we headed to Mai Po Access Road and Tai Sang Wai, where we saw Pacific Golden Plover, Greater Sandplover, Red-necked Stint, Temminck's Stint, Red-necked Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole, and Sand Martin in the latter.

Checklist in TSW: https://ebird.org/checklist/S66595339

Oriental Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole - the short-tail and lack of white trailing edge can help separating from Collared Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole

Sand Martin

The next two stops were Lam Tsuen, we saw the Yellow-browed Bunting but dipped the Red-headed Bunting, and Pat Sin Leng, resulted two Ashy Minivet, Hainan Blue Flycatcher and Narcissus Flycatcher.

Checklist in Pat Sin Leng: https://ebird.org/checklist/S66597927

Yellow-browed Bunting

Ashy Minivet

Final stop is King's Park, no Boobook was seen, but some flycatchers include 4 Narcissus Flycatcher, a single Asian Brown Flycatcher and a Ferruginous Flycatcher.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S66600881