Mai Po 30 May 2020 - heavy rain

So heavy rain that we only saw the Cotton Pygmy Goose in flight without any photo.

no cuckoo but rain

breakfast

and watch car instead

Chai Wan 28 May 2020 - night bird survey

Turned quiet and only Collared Scops Owl left.

I should buy a flashlight to make things easy..

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S69750854

Swinhoe's White-eye

Swinhoe's White-eye

micky

Collared Scops Owl 

Collared Scops Owl 

Collared Scops Owl 

Japanese Tit

Collared Scops Owl - another nest

Collared Scops Owl 

Boar

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

hot night... no beer so some stout (?!)

Mai Po 24 May 2020 - more cuckoo

A cuckoo day even no good photos, all cuckoo were seen and I finally can upgrade my ticking grade of Lesser Cuckoo. For the others include Greater Coucal, Asian Koel, Plaintive, Large Hawk and Indian Cuckoo.

Some chicks of Black-winged Stilt were seen, Greater Painted Snipe were seen and heard, together with lots of Great Knot and 4 Nordmann's Greenshank.

The Glossy Ibis was still there but the best should be a cute Collared Scops Owl.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S69546877

BigEar2020 is 193.

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo - the commonest cuckoo today

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Eurasian Collared Dove

Greater Painted Snipe

Glossy Ibis

Grey-cheeked Starling

Plaintive Cuckoo

Lesser Cuckoo - some spots can be seen in outer primaries

Lesser Cuckoo - the barring are thicker and cleaner than Indian, also smaller bill to me

Lesser Cuckoo - sometimes can be difficult to ID unless a singing bird in flight like this

Lesser Cuckoo

Collared Scops Owl - too close

Large Hawk Cuckoo - like an Accipiter!

Lesser Cuckoo - no distinctive black terminal band in tail as in Indian. Also, iris of Indian is little bit darker.

Lesser Cuckoo - this bird also lacks the clean white shaft of outer primary of some Indian showing

Indian and Lesser 1

Indian and Lesser 2

Greater Coucal

healthy coke...

and healthy beer

Masked Laughingthrush mobbing a long snake

https://www.xeno-canto.org/561587

Masked Laughingthrush

https://www.xeno-canto.org/561585

Mai Po 23 May 2020 - only Common Cuckoo

Only Common Cuckoo was seen today but not our target - Lesser Cuckoo, which was only heard briefly...

Biggest surprise should be Sun Parakeet.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S69491019

Common Cuckoo -  feeding

Common Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo - again, this is only a Common Cukoo

Sun Parakeet

Common Cuckoo

https://www.xeno-canto.org/561004

Eurasian Collared Dove

https://www.xeno-canto.org/561006