Mai Po 31 Jan 2021 - 95 common species

No Common Gull, we saw 95 species but none really worth reporting except a Lesser Frigatebird in 1 km distance, what a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar bird! This is HK!

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S80172429

Nice weather but birdless

super far Falcated Duck, so just digiscoped by iPhone

similar case for Greater White-fronted Goose, shit light, no need to use the camera

Lesser Frigatebird and Black Kite - too far to ID if no comparison

a dark-billed and dark-legged Black-headed Gull - adult

Black-headed Gull - the underwing pattern is a critical clue for ID. Bonaparte's would show whiter underwing with black trailing edge, also smaller size. Both gulls should show reddish leg in adults. They can be similar in first year bird.

Greater Spotted Eagle

Oriental Stork - digiscoped

Oriental Stork

Oriental Stork - closer this time but shit light too

Great Cormorant - a1 & r1 are waiting me?

metallic cormorant resemble spectacled cormorant

Shing Mun & Chai Wan 30 Jan 2021 - HK tick....

Finally got a non-lifer HK tick after several months, a Black-throated Bushtit, in Shing Mun. Nothing else very interesting there except a responsive Hume's Leaf Warbler.

Night Bird survey in backyard is much more exciting with 6 Collared Scops Owl and 9 other non-nightbird species.

Shing Mun: https://ebird.org/checklist/S80104413

Chai Wan: https://ebird.org/checklist/S80110293

Mugimaki Flycatcher

Asian Barred Owlet - thanks to Swinhoe's White-eye mobbing

nice view of trees

Yellow-browed Warbler

Slaty-backed Forktail - still a far bird to me

Slaty-backed Forktail

Slaty-backed Forktail

Slaty-backed Forktail

female Fork-tailed Sunbird

Black-throated Bushtit - the most distant Black-throated Bushtit I have ever seen in my life.... 

but still a HK tick............ (no excitement) 

Speckled Piculet

Hume's Leaf Warbler - an interesting individual showing pale lower mandible

Hume's Leaf Warbler - cannot really tell the ID without the call

Hume's Leaf Warbler - the appearance is also similar to Yellow-browed Warbler, and showing a faint crown stripe

Hume's Leaf Warbler - very responsive to playback

Hume's Leaf Warbler

Hume's Leaf Warbler - another interesting feature... only 1.5 wing bars

Hume's Leaf Warbler - the supercilium is less contrasting (little bit !)

Hume's Leaf Warbler

Hume's Leaf Warbler - the tertials fringes rule out Two-barred Warbler complex, which the call can be similar

Hume's Leaf Warbler

Hume's Leaf Warbler

Hume's Leaf Warbler

Eastern Crowned Warbler 

a BEER Tick, but doesn't mean the bushtit is a beer-tick species

Swinhoe's White-eye

Blue Whistling Thrush

Collared Scops Owl

Rufous-tailed Robin

Asian Brown Flycatcher

male Fork-tailed Sunbird

Swinhoe's White-eye

beer after survey

Hume's Leaf Warbler 

https://www.xeno-canto.org/618492

Hume's Leaf Warbler

https://www.xeno-canto.org/618490

Hume's Leaf Warbler 

https://www.xeno-canto.org/618491

Lam Tin Park 27 Jan 2021 - common birding

Triplessness, birdlessness, laziness make us to the Lam Tin Park for common birding. Two-barred Warbler was the best of the day

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S79961695

Two-barred Warbler

Two-barred Warbler

Two-barred Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler

Red-billed Blue Magpie

Grey-backed Thrush

Greater-necklaced Laughingthrush - too close but bad light

female Black-winged Cuckooshrike

Common Tailorbird

Blue-winged Minla - very hard to photo

Fork-tailed Sunbird

Swinhoe's White-eye

Swinhoe's White-eye

Swinhoe's White-eye

Fork-tailed Sunbird

Ashy Drongo - the blackish subspecies, likely hopwoodi

Ashy Drongo - may split as Blackish Drongo

female Verditer Flycatcher

alarm call of Fork-tailed Sunbird

https://www.xeno-canto.org/617840

song of Oriental Magpie Robin

https://www.xeno-canto.org/617842