2020年4月26日 星期日

Long Valley and Tsing Tam 25 Apr 2020 - black day as always

Visited Long Valley before seeing the Brown Fish Owl chick in Tsing Tam, resulted nothing special. Little Curlew was still there but no good photos allowed, 40 Chinese Sparrowhawk and 2 Yellow-breasted Bunting were the remaining highlights. Oops.. I nearly forgot the Chestnut Munia.

In Tsing Tam, seeing the Brown Fish Owl chick is an easy task, but no good photo opportunities of the two adults, typical luck for me.

I really need tripsssss.....

BigEar2020 is 176 now.

Checklist of LV: https://ebird.org/checklist/S67762442
Checklist of Tsing Tam: https://ebird.org/checklist/S67778650

where is the Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Alexandrine Parakeet

Chestnut Munia

Chestnut Munia

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Yellow-bellied Prinia - or split as Chinese Prinia

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Chinese Sparrowhawk

no good birds so need better lunch

and better beer, I love Japanese beer the most

Brown Fish Owl - chick

Brown Fish Owl - chick

Large Hawk Cuckoo

Brown Fish Owl - adult

Brown Fish Owl - adult

frog, not care which species

Sake

2020年4月19日 星期日

Long Valley, Tai Lam and Mai Po 19 Apr 2020 - where is my luck?

Visited two places in the morning, where we saw Little Curlew and Brown-cheeked Rail in Long Valley, and both Chinese Barbet and Brown Wood Owl in Tai Lam. No Hodgson’s Hawk Cuckoo today after charging our speakers.

After a nice lunch, went to Mai Po for the Glossy Ibis year tick. Not many other special species and my bike was broken.. unluckily..... Thanks to Jon’s and staff of WWF’s help, this bike still allowed me to travel to the end of the access road.

Checklist in LV: https://ebird.org/checklist/S67439284
Checklist in TL: https://ebird.org/checklist/S67442723
Checklsit in MP: https://ebird.org/checklist/S67448331

Little Curlew - the pale lore and thin bill is distinctive 

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew - feeding

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew - less contrasting crown pattern than Whimbrel complex

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Curlew

Chinese Pond Heron

Brown Wood Owl

nest of Grey-chinned Minivet

Lesser Shortwing 

lunch

Egret's egg

Asian Dowitcher

W..T...F...

Glossy Ibis

Glossy Ibis by phone

Grey-headed Lapwing