Chai Wan 27 Dec 2021 - last 2021 birding day

Final birdless day, and should bird less in 2022.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S99497163

Common Tailorbird

Fork-tailed Sunbird

Verditer Flycatcher

Verditer Flycatcher

Verditer Flycatcher

Verditer Flycatcher

Verditer Flycatcher

Black-naped Monarch

Japanese Tit

White-bellied Sea Eagle

Black-throated Laughingthrush - dark morph

Black-throated Laughingthrush - dark morph

Tai Sang Wai and Hutchison Park 26 Dec 2021 - Boxing Day

Spent a morning with the Steppe Eagle and 15 mins after lunch for the Olive-backed Sunbird, zero lifer and excitement. 

Steppe Eagle

Steppe Eagle

White Wagtail

Steppe Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Steppe Eagle - taken by Smallfat's 5D4, the last time I took this species was using 400D

Olive-backed Sunbird - showed immediately when we played. Just a crappy eclipse male so we didn't stay at all.

Olive-backed Sunbird

better go home for concert

25 Dec 2021 - Christmas Day

No bird, just eat and drink. No luck for Christmas gift too.

15 Dec 2021

I was smart not to bird today. Just enjoy.

Pak Sha O and Lau Shui Heung 12 Dec 2021 - better not to bird

A Bianchi's Warbler head and seen poorly in Pak Sha O and nothing in Lau Shui Heung marked the day.

Gould's Sunbird - in HK you can get crappy eclipse male

Small Niltava - in HK you can get dull female high up

Bianchi's Warbler - in HK you can get a unphotoable bird, never IDable if no cal

Small Niltava

https://xeno-canto.org/691488

Small Niltava

https://xeno-canto.org/691489

Alstrom's Warbler

https://xeno-canto.org/691491

Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush

https://xeno-canto.org/691492

9 Dec 2021 - eat more

Let's have a good dinner before going back, when it is so hard to travel around.

Pak Sha O and Mai Po 5 Dec 2021 - finally a lifer

Went to Pak Sha O and Mai Po today, dipped the Common Reed Bunting as expected, anyway the spot is FAR from photoable. Globally common birds here are always rare.

Out of my expectation was a Northern Goshawk, finally I could find myself a lifer in 2021, but the poorest view to get in any raptor tick.

Oh forget the Hill Blue Flycatcher, another rarity in HK but common elsewhere in SE Asia.

Pak Sha O Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S98479219

Chestnut-flanked White-eye

Chestnut-flanked White-eye with pale chestnut flank

Hill Blue Flycatcher

Rufous-faced Warbler

Rufous-faced Warbler

Rufous-faced Warbler

better lunch when no birds

Northern Goshawk

Northern Goshawk

Northern Goshawk

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