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.
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
Hume's Leaf Warbler
Hume's Leaf Warbler
