Chai Wan 29 Apr 2021 - night bird survey

What an exciting HK birddom, only Collared Scops Owl and unseenable Malayan Night Heron at night.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S86640718

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Swinhoe's White-eye

Swinhoe's White-eye

Collared Scops Owl

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Collared Scops Owl - chick

Collared Scops Owl

beer time

Malayan Night Heron

https://www.xeno-canto.org/643775

Tsim Bei Tsui, Long Valley and Lam Tsuen 25 Apr 2021 - birdless is normal

Went three places a day, remember, no bird or no photoable bird is very normal in HK.

Tsim Bei Tsui, just unphotoable and poorly seen Styan's Grasshopper Warbler.

Lam Tsuen: lifeless, not a shutter.

Long Valley: distant Plaintive Cuckoo and close but dull Red-necked Phalarope.

blurred Styan's Grasshopper Warbler

crappy Styan's Grasshopper Warbler

blocked Styan's Grasshopper Warbler

Plaintive Cuckoo

Plaintive Cuckoo

Plaintive Cuckoo

Plaintive Cuckoo

Plaintive Cuckoo

Plaintive Cuckoo

Red-necked Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

Black-winged Stilt

Chinese Pond Heron

damn crab

Horseshoe Crab before dead

Large Hawk Cuckoo

Chai Wan 18 Apr 2021 - no need to bird

Just wander around carpark in backyard and a smart choice not to go anywhere else to bird in HK. Rest more and save money.

Still a checklist (without migrants): https://ebird.org/checklist/S85784280

Common Tailorbird

Blue Whistling Thrush - chick

Blue Whistling Thrush

Blue Whistling Thrush

Blue Whistling Thrush

Blue Whistling Thrush

Blue Whistling Thrush

Blue Whistling Thrush

a weak recording of Blue Whistling Thrush

https://www.xeno-canto.org/640377

San Tin 11 Apr 2021 - birdless morning

A very quick visit to San Tin in morning, saw the Rosy Starling poorly, and we left the spot at 8:30. Better back to home for movie in birdless HK.

Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S85281716

White-shouldered Starling

Rosy Starling

Rosy Starling and White-shouldered Starling

Rosy Starling

Kowloon Peak, Mai Po, Lam Tsuen and Ho Man Tin - last lifeless holiday

Always no Chinese Grassbird for me in Kowloon Peak, only unphotoable Brown Bush Warbler (Welcome to HK).

Mai Po, nothing; Lam Tsuen, nothing.

Ho Man Tin, only unphotoable Hainan Blue Flycatcher and Besra. Get used to the birdless experience in HK.

Kowloon Peak checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S84900782

Ho Man Tin checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S84900776

no checklist for the other two places coz extremely lifeless.

Besra

Besra

Besra

Besra

Brown Bush Warbler

https://www.xeno-canto.org/636620

no bird but still alcohol left

KFBG and Mai Po 2 Apr 2021 - long holiday

Went KFBG and Mai Po (mainly because of the new bikes) at the first day of long holiday, expectedly banana only a crappy unphotoable doubted Ryukyu Flycatcher??? and two distant Oriental Plover (my farthest ever seen).

PS: in fact.. is this really a Ryukyu Flycatcher? not similar to anything we saw in Japan before

KFBG: https://ebird.org/checklist/S84580545

Ryukyu Flycatcher ? or maybe just a narcissina - not a nice-plumaged individual and never photoable

Indochinese Yuhina

Speckled Piculet

Speckled Piculet

Speckled Piculet

Speckled Piculet

Speckled Piculet

Red-billed Leiothrix

Red-billed Leiothrix

Red-billed Leiothrix

Hume's Warbler - identical to Yellow-browed Warbler if no call

Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Oriental Plover - this is Mai Po, useless even you have scope

Oriental Plover - this is HK, always ugly plumage

Oriental Plover

Large Hawk Cuckoo

Black Kite

Hume's Warbler 

https://www.xeno-canto.org/636602

Hume's Warbler

https://www.xeno-canto.org/636601

Red-billed Leiothrix

https://www.xeno-canto.org/636605

Red-billed Leiothrix

https://www.xeno-canto.org/636604