tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68881502000002842422024-03-14T04:52:38.443+08:00John's Hong Kong BirdingMainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger582125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-27829209316813501072024-02-10T15:55:00.001+08:002024-02-10T15:55:15.454+08:00Izumi City, Kyushu, Japan - a Crane spectacle<p>Japan has two well-known "Wintering Crane" spectacles - the Red-crowned Cranes in Hokkaido in the northeast of the country and the Hooded Cranes on the island of Kyushu in the southwest.</p><p>Hokkaido has more snow, but Kyushu has more cranes, - many MANY more cranes. In fact over 12,000 in recent winters.</p><p>I was reminded of this recently when thumbing through Mark Brazil's <a href="https://www.birdguides.com/reviews/books/japan-the-natural-history-of-an-asian-archipelago/" target="_blank">"JAPAN - The natural history of an Asian Archipelago"</a>. </p><p>Kagoshima is a modestly-priced three hour direct flight (HK Express UO846) from Hong Kong, and is only 80km from the cranes. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4N6b8GiCwTaI6KOmngeDEyAaQd-AeJ3bYs37JySwg945gYaiYh7IdaLtkz3_XacnaxEmIzTEdQD69aCdovNnz3LnNQiDufEQqYQuS1DvmB9yjzKI24KRVtGhMNR2J7qYUz-hc4JK1u09qIVMgQpwom9DW1nUA35yVOknGl8vxJSppfsfZd0YY05X_m4/s900/Arasaki_J_A9517-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4N6b8GiCwTaI6KOmngeDEyAaQd-AeJ3bYs37JySwg945gYaiYh7IdaLtkz3_XacnaxEmIzTEdQD69aCdovNnz3LnNQiDufEQqYQuS1DvmB9yjzKI24KRVtGhMNR2J7qYUz-hc4JK1u09qIVMgQpwom9DW1nUA35yVOknGl8vxJSppfsfZd0YY05X_m4/w640-h426/Arasaki_J_A9517-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visitor Centre at Arasaki</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-MN0ebH2Hrnh7MAsj5HfOC15-26P7VQMzHGGBlbeeNzpfQeOlat39WkEQSjjWiX9qPA2m8ART9gb6zf-lT7gwItPSWFQCqZeOPMttqDufIEuv83PV_cByGR8WZdAAfGH_BbPAvJbLtGFZdh91J-1O7VSCCBiBtdnQdt7npvR6SKUMrQykerm-PCSw_M/s900/Arasaki_J_A9533-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-MN0ebH2Hrnh7MAsj5HfOC15-26P7VQMzHGGBlbeeNzpfQeOlat39WkEQSjjWiX9qPA2m8ART9gb6zf-lT7gwItPSWFQCqZeOPMttqDufIEuv83PV_cByGR8WZdAAfGH_BbPAvJbLtGFZdh91J-1O7VSCCBiBtdnQdt7npvR6SKUMrQykerm-PCSw_M/w640-h426/Arasaki_J_A9533-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View <i>from</i> the visitor Centre</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All the roadside crane shots were taken out of the hire car window. In fact staying in the car so as not to disturb the cranes is a local rule. Temperatures dipped to below 10 deg Celsius, so staying in the vehicle wasn't a problem.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The birds are scattered across several square kilometres of fallow rice paddies, feeding among the cut stalks.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWh_Fde0fzJsEYC554gvMyxZz3St5wV4uvcyvMkOPVM-dByII_pSauZFv8OtwbTzXVWhUO4BwrrluLuWmKDwNh8KHBvJgpJQi2yoeF_icBSRZ45Cvsw70gmWa1qA5TeG9skwQ39TMGgECpZVbfh47sPeY59D_B9Yf7qo6uR_qXkHuESSJ6CpyKxtph48/s900/Arasaki_J_A9923-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWh_Fde0fzJsEYC554gvMyxZz3St5wV4uvcyvMkOPVM-dByII_pSauZFv8OtwbTzXVWhUO4BwrrluLuWmKDwNh8KHBvJgpJQi2yoeF_icBSRZ45Cvsw70gmWa1qA5TeG9skwQ39TMGgECpZVbfh47sPeY59D_B9Yf7qo6uR_qXkHuESSJ6CpyKxtph48/w640-h426/Arasaki_J_A9923-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was nice to see a few dozen <b>Common Shelduck <i>(Tadorna tadorna)...</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggh_t_tV0X2h2_eh5iq1y4sTdpsyO689rHMGmZq2sVP4eBv4LjIZznlLSdgsgY_3KR6w-_WO-deR_TS1pBJogOmPxA2ieEYs8o1maw1il9xMHexiUVJVTsKsnyD8oKa7i8mP4fp5IUzcEde0enRjVxGInkhaQoQe3hiBBaCcAeXW65_Rhhv2MrEC3ZZi8/s900/Arasaki_K_A0879-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggh_t_tV0X2h2_eh5iq1y4sTdpsyO689rHMGmZq2sVP4eBv4LjIZznlLSdgsgY_3KR6w-_WO-deR_TS1pBJogOmPxA2ieEYs8o1maw1il9xMHexiUVJVTsKsnyD8oKa7i8mP4fp5IUzcEde0enRjVxGInkhaQoQe3hiBBaCcAeXW65_Rhhv2MrEC3ZZi8/w640-h426/Arasaki_K_A0879-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And "abundant" is absolutely the word for <b>Spot-billed Duck <i>(Anas zonoryncha)</i></b> in Kyushu in winter.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPhjYXOEd14y5C8czxVswviaFRIceoGhEEE-i2ebgtZ32VmQ5byausEfu45phHyQcYetya8SPbVxf73eorezasvsq_r0CzKuwxvf6JInXoXv4mVIWfnj7Ubsvh7gwYa-vs8tweutYXXtamJbMdiQ-YLWNn55J3AcXxpr-Tzat954n-6QcWs31e9mjet8/s900/Arasaki_K_A0900-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPhjYXOEd14y5C8czxVswviaFRIceoGhEEE-i2ebgtZ32VmQ5byausEfu45phHyQcYetya8SPbVxf73eorezasvsq_r0CzKuwxvf6JInXoXv4mVIWfnj7Ubsvh7gwYa-vs8tweutYXXtamJbMdiQ-YLWNn55J3AcXxpr-Tzat954n-6QcWs31e9mjet8/w640-h426/Arasaki_K_A0900-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the crane centre volunteers kindly led us to two of the area rarer cranes, which were to the east of the Visitor Centre at Arasaki. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Sandhill Cranes <i>(Grus canadensis)</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikUTwBRseTSxApav2P9_fEjarOPKxkjzDZR0DEKkRxUS-hWQwr9TO2HUPCDz4B8dh_bGEVxibdTR2Js2F9HkgPyIuC4dfTmW5Vz7-6GndTw7i4LIb6zA-s37D0rfSbN01iGLfVW3aq6lr3n1rxAfZuCJEcUimBc6edkpsVXMSLVxtxbORfwjD-JongkT0/s900/Arasaki_K_A0131-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="900" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikUTwBRseTSxApav2P9_fEjarOPKxkjzDZR0DEKkRxUS-hWQwr9TO2HUPCDz4B8dh_bGEVxibdTR2Js2F9HkgPyIuC4dfTmW5Vz7-6GndTw7i4LIb6zA-s37D0rfSbN01iGLfVW3aq6lr3n1rxAfZuCJEcUimBc6edkpsVXMSLVxtxbORfwjD-JongkT0/w640-h428/Arasaki_K_A0131-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And a single <b>Siberian Crane <i>(Grus leucogeranus)</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CBLMqQcm-7uGggzj15uk3_uvqq4GKXU2TRQ4xNoMHvrCf4hNTwkIuY7H94nGyeKVUFWnpyG_iLyIqnF8gxQvaepCESNoA1upVd-VkZAKex4Eu7hPv0-4nke8Mvw8ZveQUygdUNIyIHzxzOUa8CNxDqgg8qEHiTzKLw2wybQdbVWN0LaBUp5dLq67x5U/s900/Arasaki_J_A9702-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CBLMqQcm-7uGggzj15uk3_uvqq4GKXU2TRQ4xNoMHvrCf4hNTwkIuY7H94nGyeKVUFWnpyG_iLyIqnF8gxQvaepCESNoA1upVd-VkZAKex4Eu7hPv0-4nke8Mvw8ZveQUygdUNIyIHzxzOUa8CNxDqgg8qEHiTzKLw2wybQdbVWN0LaBUp5dLq67x5U/w640-h426/Arasaki_J_A9702-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">Apologies for a paucity of posts in recent weeks, I had technical issues uploading images to "Blogger".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After manfully fiddling with the settings, things appear to be working again... here's a selection of what you've been missing....</div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjWaKiX66BoQzDsx59tJUu_fb1IPsH7V_bxJmF2q8L81IFMvT1WLiCMRotTh4oCkOZUevx2QRZcEB7i6XWNGCXmkXfxu7fXFek-qYk8e5QSa8bIeTrl-A5T0ksW3_1OdhyL8GOTF-nos0uKwNxCezWpxohNVh1zYHcm3d2G8r-1T00J9f9thBstHZZqI/s900/Watercock_231030_J_A5810-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="900" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjWaKiX66BoQzDsx59tJUu_fb1IPsH7V_bxJmF2q8L81IFMvT1WLiCMRotTh4oCkOZUevx2QRZcEB7i6XWNGCXmkXfxu7fXFek-qYk8e5QSa8bIeTrl-A5T0ksW3_1OdhyL8GOTF-nos0uKwNxCezWpxohNVh1zYHcm3d2G8r-1T00J9f9thBstHZZqI/w640-h429/Watercock_231030_J_A5810-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Really ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The hottest mid-autumn festival ever - they say, but there's no HK Observatory announcement yet. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The mudskippers at Mai Po are vying with crabs for space on Mai Po's mudflats....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuehco9RQbDz2ATBLAtplNDfCqdfDPu7njeRe2WfSDZ2MvaDkS7sJTPOqrPqpJL-cRN0VjA9hX8fgi7n2Oql0GmLZITKmtuhaWu53hcoPMBObBufBwpgaKkyM5ueNugabYhadjXv7fm48AiCvj7MZumxpSZQg332oxddHqKVUvJRDybuh_jxawEAUSEz8/s900/231002_J_A4624-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuehco9RQbDz2ATBLAtplNDfCqdfDPu7njeRe2WfSDZ2MvaDkS7sJTPOqrPqpJL-cRN0VjA9hX8fgi7n2Oql0GmLZITKmtuhaWu53hcoPMBObBufBwpgaKkyM5ueNugabYhadjXv7fm48AiCvj7MZumxpSZQg332oxddHqKVUvJRDybuh_jxawEAUSEz8/w640-h426/231002_J_A4624-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>and there are a few birds around</p><p><b>Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike</b><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJRzqlzzxFfhlj_BY5W0Iv0YjyB04lhx49g9pRHGdYl7QidCVzli_2gqcds6NE6oe-HuKJR28DnlpouclBwfz_vdXmQS_G0Y8bbRFloTtb25HFPPdsVVvY-Sz-npFQccFOldegF2swMkf7WGdYZ3DL4Bk-oxeRWd90Lv9--gbgjNknhc4dsNPwmOV8/s900/PoToi_J_A4026-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJRzqlzzxFfhlj_BY5W0Iv0YjyB04lhx49g9pRHGdYl7QidCVzli_2gqcds6NE6oe-HuKJR28DnlpouclBwfz_vdXmQS_G0Y8bbRFloTtb25HFPPdsVVvY-Sz-npFQccFOldegF2swMkf7WGdYZ3DL4Bk-oxeRWd90Lv9--gbgjNknhc4dsNPwmOV8/w640-h426/PoToi_J_A4026-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brown-eared Bulbul - <i>(Microcelis amaurotis) <br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table>On Saturday, 22nd April we got the ferry to Po Toi Island, in the hope of seeing a "Hong Kong second record" Brown-eared Bulbul that had been reported a few days earlier.<p></p><p>It appeared briefly, but briefly was enough. This species winters in east China, and this one has got a bit further south than most of the others.</p><p>Around on the hills of Po Toi, were a good few typical Po Toi migrant species....<br /> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMvz7Y-JL500pKCLxHJZsSOzLHKAv59HA8UzHQy0qruQ0PF1t7y-9iwaFbkxZfPH4Q-6z6UV-JO6l0TGXlFB3EIr04Zg34vlLqhVHrgwpaL1KxyJFSanhJ3roDs0SoV7Yu-O8a8MsKgGGKEtzjOQ5qhXic885YMe5pfwtf3S4THincgTap7Za9KQX/s900/PoToi_J_A4042-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMvz7Y-JL500pKCLxHJZsSOzLHKAv59HA8UzHQy0qruQ0PF1t7y-9iwaFbkxZfPH4Q-6z6UV-JO6l0TGXlFB3EIr04Zg34vlLqhVHrgwpaL1KxyJFSanhJ3roDs0SoV7Yu-O8a8MsKgGGKEtzjOQ5qhXic885YMe5pfwtf3S4THincgTap7Za9KQX/w400-h266/PoToi_J_A4042-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brambling -<i> (Fringilla montefringilla)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLkeJTN35ZzhEKOrNQ-Synmn96e-Hr-Oew49O78FNxuQj3o5ghfL3hYcchtKuMwSMxT-NIvYPo7K-lWXYcJx8enc-BHilc0JFM6yFQ7w-Z2gbj1ciyZG1pFv8pcOSluH1mQSBFnnyGaqKOH-Qox2RpY87qfX2i3DB671czSPz-TcE9dQ9AQbUuGEv/s900/PoToi_23_0149-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLkeJTN35ZzhEKOrNQ-Synmn96e-Hr-Oew49O78FNxuQj3o5ghfL3hYcchtKuMwSMxT-NIvYPo7K-lWXYcJx8enc-BHilc0JFM6yFQ7w-Z2gbj1ciyZG1pFv8pcOSluH1mQSBFnnyGaqKOH-Qox2RpY87qfX2i3DB671czSPz-TcE9dQ9AQbUuGEv/w400-h266/PoToi_23_0149-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dollarbird - <i>(Eurystomus orientalis)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVfw5u7rZbFrBNWPZiSUAeNS4MiAIsxIO6ZsBrR0ho_CKhWc14JhyLopINPU-4C56CrWoRTH5cQwCD8ETVznKLdjTO_WnIgHautJzFZLdi669cJiTnMixjKE_nDfrFF6oQqNPEat_OKrZwySJ1jsyzbqJ-BrViuKEbEJGRCbIZq9OgFY3DCATE5OoT/s900/PoToi_23_0117-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVfw5u7rZbFrBNWPZiSUAeNS4MiAIsxIO6ZsBrR0ho_CKhWc14JhyLopINPU-4C56CrWoRTH5cQwCD8ETVznKLdjTO_WnIgHautJzFZLdi669cJiTnMixjKE_nDfrFF6oQqNPEat_OKrZwySJ1jsyzbqJ-BrViuKEbEJGRCbIZq9OgFY3DCATE5OoT/w400-h266/PoToi_23_0117-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swinhoe's Minivet - <i>(Pericrocotus cantonensis)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A boat trip to southern HK Waters followed on April 23rd. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Boat Trips can be a bit of a lottery, but it turned out to be a good day. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Brown Booby was a "HK Tick" for us, a complete surprise...</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhJU18cWwOgPipgBfmoT5A8-gz3fEpgTlMjU_Oc7p1B4rFbGDlCtA6KpZg1XXg-zFjk1fX9WJGKKn0qhCiwckhgLhrkRXp0JmgVwyllUaI74Qqe6HkVePJsQQ_ZdBGgUJEW59lwMNpB8zvVPJtLm-qqkbpugwklFiEakgAwu58mjE8wdYxIcU1SL6/s900/boat_bBooby_23_0712-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhJU18cWwOgPipgBfmoT5A8-gz3fEpgTlMjU_Oc7p1B4rFbGDlCtA6KpZg1XXg-zFjk1fX9WJGKKn0qhCiwckhgLhrkRXp0JmgVwyllUaI74Qqe6HkVePJsQQ_ZdBGgUJEW59lwMNpB8zvVPJtLm-qqkbpugwklFiEakgAwu58mjE8wdYxIcU1SL6/w640-h426/boat_bBooby_23_0712-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brown Booby - <i>(Sula leucogaster)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1jcOBnkw03okyhn8MtLMbKZiTl7kTEt6g9fzOmLsGTRWuq5fohLBYexNvAQarGXr4qvW6pfBYo5spYkHvfqwzweOkYL6kwjMkBCU7vZ51qZb__3KUg23aqYfAvWqYiOS-ixxNCLVg9DDRmyyOQJ5WVvl8pgVAMRCvYlWF9vw2ACEr8NeKsWRKa69/s900/boat_aleutian_23_0809-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1jcOBnkw03okyhn8MtLMbKZiTl7kTEt6g9fzOmLsGTRWuq5fohLBYexNvAQarGXr4qvW6pfBYo5spYkHvfqwzweOkYL6kwjMkBCU7vZ51qZb__3KUg23aqYfAvWqYiOS-ixxNCLVg9DDRmyyOQJ5WVvl8pgVAMRCvYlWF9vw2ACEr8NeKsWRKa69/w640-h426/boat_aleutian_23_0809-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aleutian Tern - <i>(Onychoprion aleuticus)<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnjryG2QUfLodenxUtF8RNeqNsXNNtjwws_NegS94pv9Yn9-DeaCH_GtzunVRTCDS3J9g5tfqNZqSs5WrZBHPgwlebG893KhE_hUd6KcxkC3TG6fMBe4OCVAl8ekr5HHwb1Zz1b0co0zjiJvFvP39ZIT_AQwhuyDSsy-1b9eCDx01DCM_oeY77gUWG/s900/boat_GCTerns_J_A4463-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnjryG2QUfLodenxUtF8RNeqNsXNNtjwws_NegS94pv9Yn9-DeaCH_GtzunVRTCDS3J9g5tfqNZqSs5WrZBHPgwlebG893KhE_hUd6KcxkC3TG6fMBe4OCVAl8ekr5HHwb1Zz1b0co0zjiJvFvP39ZIT_AQwhuyDSsy-1b9eCDx01DCM_oeY77gUWG/w640-h426/boat_GCTerns_J_A4463-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Crested Tern - <i>(Thalasseus bergii)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglT6VdttxedxCioiZtQvkchE73QfgJRHFqJt-QsMnQlmnIh6aUmyvXeC1YIhTIGwgwp2Zbs1ohGWbvv0bangyemaTl70bPtTluMPgd1R7BzZGTL0fqelfyOVmVztgMxVZPMeiYgFqCH3ErZSQNenYC6sAZRXagyfDOIEr788FihnzSpODOE8dI5brD/s900/boat_J_A4188-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglT6VdttxedxCioiZtQvkchE73QfgJRHFqJt-QsMnQlmnIh6aUmyvXeC1YIhTIGwgwp2Zbs1ohGWbvv0bangyemaTl70bPtTluMPgd1R7BzZGTL0fqelfyOVmVztgMxVZPMeiYgFqCH3ErZSQNenYC6sAZRXagyfDOIEr788FihnzSpODOE8dI5brD/w640-h426/boat_J_A4188-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black-tailed Gull - <i>(Larus crassirostris)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Axryo1tV4oKNcNU1m9GY4xv4E-Hs3Ey-4aioAIPRNG6xrVFIUho1IgbBXLqlmoZ-66r49cbGGz-GpLonhXL9_X-IGlKiuuML0Rj7pEma3N5T8-QWEfLevyEKq30J95vTeW4abNrQG302bc1IU4R9QfMlVFGjdumpyapQ0ZaA_APTp1TjShALkE1s/s900/boat_phals_J_A4369-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Axryo1tV4oKNcNU1m9GY4xv4E-Hs3Ey-4aioAIPRNG6xrVFIUho1IgbBXLqlmoZ-66r49cbGGz-GpLonhXL9_X-IGlKiuuML0Rj7pEma3N5T8-QWEfLevyEKq30J95vTeW4abNrQG302bc1IU4R9QfMlVFGjdumpyapQ0ZaA_APTp1TjShALkE1s/w640-h426/boat_phals_J_A4369-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>(Phalaropus lobatus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufMOimyi3jMXNgBQbBgVCANVWIlyuD0k4VJnIagzmBoBENEfpYu9frMZse_CMpB8dQFSLd9qcJqbrSOuNh5Fy_DbQp6sI-BRXam0udHOlg6-6K6yPChKqfU1lnrFaPggTdaYHKzwaHI1mSRNR0lXLK9o8aPxfDIWoYIqX4QzBSceXRwJFfeX0m5rD/s900/boat_phals_J_A4380-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufMOimyi3jMXNgBQbBgVCANVWIlyuD0k4VJnIagzmBoBENEfpYu9frMZse_CMpB8dQFSLd9qcJqbrSOuNh5Fy_DbQp6sI-BRXam0udHOlg6-6K6yPChKqfU1lnrFaPggTdaYHKzwaHI1mSRNR0lXLK9o8aPxfDIWoYIqX4QzBSceXRwJFfeX0m5rD/w640-h426/boat_phals_J_A4380-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>(Phalaropus lobatus) </i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Sadly, plenty of rubbish in the water. But the phalarope seem attracted to flotsam in the waves.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwGd8qmHqExcqT4yT3VSzhyQpTPZjV8-VQav4C1U0VE14mggNzIZRe09WVE_0QGfqDiZgZektGafoviBC-zpND1OYxKjrNjHTQDGz3EroqhxDyDfeKqh8IZ2KtMF_RzOqqrPYHhLY17kXnelVcmX0odOqTVbC1rk1mKQNWFbGwcNYnuyttoJ-yfym/s900/boat_shears_23_0478-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwGd8qmHqExcqT4yT3VSzhyQpTPZjV8-VQav4C1U0VE14mggNzIZRe09WVE_0QGfqDiZgZektGafoviBC-zpND1OYxKjrNjHTQDGz3EroqhxDyDfeKqh8IZ2KtMF_RzOqqrPYHhLY17kXnelVcmX0odOqTVbC1rk1mKQNWFbGwcNYnuyttoJ-yfym/w640-h426/boat_shears_23_0478-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short-tailed Shearwaters - <i>(Ardenna tenuirostris)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZQYWr66G46ZCPdZAfr6SnDh7XBXMR3Xlf58Ohm3tSPR-dHJuUk1cmwVf71tVuaZ_gNg8ebLZfwBxb6ALYojAwldu6Uyg_NHHH_8IDWvu-bmxtoZziRqOrDu6ykvcyuFl5Q5U-EN3BQ0GWVh5reSm0rxNeIUnXHrrU2iqrpXbcMBIzzxaT12O36fH/s900/boat_shears_J_A4291-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="900" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZQYWr66G46ZCPdZAfr6SnDh7XBXMR3Xlf58Ohm3tSPR-dHJuUk1cmwVf71tVuaZ_gNg8ebLZfwBxb6ALYojAwldu6Uyg_NHHH_8IDWvu-bmxtoZziRqOrDu6ykvcyuFl5Q5U-EN3BQ0GWVh5reSm0rxNeIUnXHrrU2iqrpXbcMBIzzxaT12O36fH/w640-h428/boat_shears_J_A4291-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short-tailed Shearwaters - <i>(Ardenna tenuirostris)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>On another boat trip on May 10th 2023, we found that the Red-necked Phalarope were in more advanced breeding plumage than the ones we had seen three weeks earlier.<div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9IKgV-mj_K2kIDYMf_s2maxOykOc09q4W9B4PWZbgot9iUp5nbIhgBex1Z4uIeWYUyfL1rGtDk6JsVvoXa4UfPYOIRmPbC59CQ5jp-rjOYJCidAlKy6T17bjBCJz_s38N8kPVZnIdjF3amlBOvnoNRIaGCU-LnUKJUy4ykbOhomtLbdSmps_RB-9/s900/230510_boat_23_1338-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9IKgV-mj_K2kIDYMf_s2maxOykOc09q4W9B4PWZbgot9iUp5nbIhgBex1Z4uIeWYUyfL1rGtDk6JsVvoXa4UfPYOIRmPbC59CQ5jp-rjOYJCidAlKy6T17bjBCJz_s38N8kPVZnIdjF3amlBOvnoNRIaGCU-LnUKJUy4ykbOhomtLbdSmps_RB-9/w640-h426/230510_boat_23_1338-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>(Phalaropus lobatus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5acH2j1q9cXC-DA6kxcsc1XezUi6698SVookQCPl1wp2jmNI6WsaLa5EZAYL-OcXVRbBTLB7IIsHNOiUwUizwbNpScB-98ByXomE-wU7raSmvoYU9eItPB2Ko2mXX2isuau2CjfwY-4FbP2WbPdZJexy4BGnDz_oOHf-6lXBRMolQcY98wE553RZy/s900/230510_boat_J_A5920-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5acH2j1q9cXC-DA6kxcsc1XezUi6698SVookQCPl1wp2jmNI6WsaLa5EZAYL-OcXVRbBTLB7IIsHNOiUwUizwbNpScB-98ByXomE-wU7raSmvoYU9eItPB2Ko2mXX2isuau2CjfwY-4FbP2WbPdZJexy4BGnDz_oOHf-6lXBRMolQcY98wE553RZy/w640-h426/230510_boat_J_A5920-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>(Phalaropus lobatus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And, today, off to Sai Kung for the second time for another rarity, Japanese Waxwing.....hanging around near some fruiting trees - but not the tree this barbet claimed possession of.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpcKvyBxpWZAdQt6eSNomj5VXoM8PJcKHt9-Emc3_odJW0HaVmekdiNgs_RjSCjEm9pFlUdF-Vdf3RoBaCze0AeVcTYssjakKT7AXgJbOdN-c5uNWKhivnXeEgJyFiF1bxXbAbf9isGCiARpYb4uFcMFogQ9F8xdzyQa3VRpIyGBfNqZOLuBX37lE/s900/230511_TsiuHang_J_A6106-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="900" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpcKvyBxpWZAdQt6eSNomj5VXoM8PJcKHt9-Emc3_odJW0HaVmekdiNgs_RjSCjEm9pFlUdF-Vdf3RoBaCze0AeVcTYssjakKT7AXgJbOdN-c5uNWKhivnXeEgJyFiF1bxXbAbf9isGCiARpYb4uFcMFogQ9F8xdzyQa3VRpIyGBfNqZOLuBX37lE/w640-h428/230511_TsiuHang_J_A6106-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Barbet -<i> (Megalaima virens)</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Vagrant or escape ? Only time - or the HK Birdwatching Society Records Committee - will tell !</b></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOdt1xcyL-UMqKh2ay46qbQuH1X2WwW9RoQ8VEF_xwdQDppkaVQ3SToBlz-t3Is8vgRaGrgxFWjr-0LvC4iEQgw86guMTLOY0tujX-5FzD99OOE80EGCpIRtOigeb6fDosx5PsL0MFfV_rI0RGG7FFdnPKtHSf4afoyrhnKFhM2mlljtUP7pZYufS/s900/230511_TsiuHang_J_A6035-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="900" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOdt1xcyL-UMqKh2ay46qbQuH1X2WwW9RoQ8VEF_xwdQDppkaVQ3SToBlz-t3Is8vgRaGrgxFWjr-0LvC4iEQgw86guMTLOY0tujX-5FzD99OOE80EGCpIRtOigeb6fDosx5PsL0MFfV_rI0RGG7FFdnPKtHSf4afoyrhnKFhM2mlljtUP7pZYufS/w640-h428/230511_TsiuHang_J_A6035-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Japanese Waxwing -<i> (Bombycilla japonica)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25746+6V Po Toi, Hong Kong22.1556093 114.262180822.028443252127904 114.1248516984375 22.282775347872093 114.3995099015625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-647667119666532772023-05-04T19:55:00.004+08:002023-05-04T20:29:57.664+08:00Spring Waders at Mai Po - end April - early May 2023<p>The precarious existence of waders is demonstrated in real-time by their numbers seeming to be down in Hong Kong compared to previous years.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCFjJm3G9xgmoDD9J1Yy0Zu7V6T6n5PzeT4ZQ0ycR4d8XhauNAvx1FbrwRwmPPXj9-yHDh0f_Nyi6cyURw73krIKD31Vgf5Btv959a9lKJmq06MeJ6L2oKt1lgEJchSO2iQLloEJFIgZOL0Qek95JRX9wx_v1wtqutvo-EdeG-lp2ZGN0HkPeTM3t/s900/230504_CRedshank_J_A5503-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCFjJm3G9xgmoDD9J1Yy0Zu7V6T6n5PzeT4ZQ0ycR4d8XhauNAvx1FbrwRwmPPXj9-yHDh0f_Nyi6cyURw73krIKD31Vgf5Btv959a9lKJmq06MeJ6L2oKt1lgEJchSO2iQLloEJFIgZOL0Qek95JRX9wx_v1wtqutvo-EdeG-lp2ZGN0HkPeTM3t/w640-h426/230504_CRedshank_J_A5503-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Redshank - <i>Tringa totanus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSztHntzqcuHQUqP6fsgBmTaB9aprcXkFuT1da1iCOdM88XWJYp3YW4rKF7xn-TD1CWK-LBAtS6kLSM22YrPQE5pi-G7FaL0CmBxuDyVqMUsbRc2sgy767tDxKxLKPNisY2g1xfvOowXkGSUMQeI5zlI_XQCpF5_KX1Zg_Eq7QXgTnn9kKkBU86w2H/s900/230502_Tereks_J_A5055-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSztHntzqcuHQUqP6fsgBmTaB9aprcXkFuT1da1iCOdM88XWJYp3YW4rKF7xn-TD1CWK-LBAtS6kLSM22YrPQE5pi-G7FaL0CmBxuDyVqMUsbRc2sgy767tDxKxLKPNisY2g1xfvOowXkGSUMQeI5zlI_XQCpF5_KX1Zg_Eq7QXgTnn9kKkBU86w2H/w640-h426/230502_Tereks_J_A5055-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terek Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Red-necked Stints</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpLlNLp6sTnPpyGqp9YIUuMhjiyl6teL64WkYtHw8CijYF-WY6yMfifJvwXwX4pbOwRM4OQRmYleZQ4a1b1I8JnZl-IdVlBiJuRZP8UHjs7ujcBftr2VV3-myETvCdLOXTqzNxecopCgC5NeE92zjEXupJe4OZhHDnfshJFec3-D4_-0us03z_vYCU/s900/230502_GBTernCurlSP_J_A5-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpLlNLp6sTnPpyGqp9YIUuMhjiyl6teL64WkYtHw8CijYF-WY6yMfifJvwXwX4pbOwRM4OQRmYleZQ4a1b1I8JnZl-IdVlBiJuRZP8UHjs7ujcBftr2VV3-myETvCdLOXTqzNxecopCgC5NeE92zjEXupJe4OZhHDnfshJFec3-D4_-0us03z_vYCU/w640-h426/230502_GBTernCurlSP_J_A5-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gull-billed Tern and (mostly) Curlew Sandpipers</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRE-qtZ5XXtrynQP8NzVaw7ZF3SOPq0BPq0zg6UKUKz6z-ndobw53Q9LlWL_68vpARlK5k8By5JvsQ8ym9OYYzl8Gr-GX1CXlGeaR_MemN9uFBvkYhbR-lqs9IhHk8c04tefNEH88KJGTdOUR_WiToC0OWMm_R8cFMRQmyPLBUvFanrgDg7i-oFWo/s900/230501_RedKnot_J_A4935-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRE-qtZ5XXtrynQP8NzVaw7ZF3SOPq0BPq0zg6UKUKz6z-ndobw53Q9LlWL_68vpARlK5k8By5JvsQ8ym9OYYzl8Gr-GX1CXlGeaR_MemN9uFBvkYhbR-lqs9IhHk8c04tefNEH88KJGTdOUR_WiToC0OWMm_R8cFMRQmyPLBUvFanrgDg7i-oFWo/w640-h426/230501_RedKnot_J_A4935-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Knot <i>(Calidris canutus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7X-ruq2E2jZD9UmP44Do6RAKVgUEM8afjBaLSBAR-TFsEY_8DniuWQmTl_zKNk_tJBuXQoWtipM67AWH09afa2OgMC73yiR2Ml2a9Kg7DIC2D4YC3XPmS3FSpNStNRUb1_1Z1ZnMi2k-AsS7jom5lAXGhlpgczWL_6Q0GHVVxPYzpfcaqfL5jkuE8/s900/230501_Broad-billed_J_A4-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7X-ruq2E2jZD9UmP44Do6RAKVgUEM8afjBaLSBAR-TFsEY_8DniuWQmTl_zKNk_tJBuXQoWtipM67AWH09afa2OgMC73yiR2Ml2a9Kg7DIC2D4YC3XPmS3FSpNStNRUb1_1Z1ZnMi2k-AsS7jom5lAXGhlpgczWL_6Q0GHVVxPYzpfcaqfL5jkuE8/w640-h426/230501_Broad-billed_J_A4-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Broad-billed Sandpiper <i>(Calidris falcinellus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnB_9-oyxp4OZXWVU_HKUxWIqrpIVwdsEV3ojmcVHfoUiOcKLh4ngFksFNwnEUFjfEfkcR-5lP2ZoBUQRKQFQhagQ71pOGLvbkSps96tU3-MfsmjBntCBm-h-vvTGX1tVGWunt8TVygvx1rC5-AAu-XDYMUMenzjvzCEb9EpCPp6owYm33ffVcqGQ2/s900/230428_waders_J_A4590-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnB_9-oyxp4OZXWVU_HKUxWIqrpIVwdsEV3ojmcVHfoUiOcKLh4ngFksFNwnEUFjfEfkcR-5lP2ZoBUQRKQFQhagQ71pOGLvbkSps96tU3-MfsmjBntCBm-h-vvTGX1tVGWunt8TVygvx1rC5-AAu-XDYMUMenzjvzCEb9EpCPp6owYm33ffVcqGQ2/w640-h426/230428_waders_J_A4590-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Stint<i> (Calidris ruficollis)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjV1yVPFD4_HTYFWSZVJJyuCy2wrPxAhNqvqwot4wIFlVhDac9VE3RkV1gX0IngUxL_FQ304zrK3yVqDE4UY_5kCdzxz02o0YoeT_PtReT1g5CRc6ImF7o3F3R32DdRcQtTL_GpUofYS2fdpKRd02wCXegshQeRf9_kSa7horeQGoO07JU6XAX0jX/s900/230428_waders_J_A4580-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjV1yVPFD4_HTYFWSZVJJyuCy2wrPxAhNqvqwot4wIFlVhDac9VE3RkV1gX0IngUxL_FQ304zrK3yVqDE4UY_5kCdzxz02o0YoeT_PtReT1g5CRc6ImF7o3F3R32DdRcQtTL_GpUofYS2fdpKRd02wCXegshQeRf9_kSa7horeQGoO07JU6XAX0jX/w640-h426/230428_waders_J_A4580-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruddy Turnstone<i> (Arenaria interpres)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlXhIIXTrKBTEAXEhz91-MsmCShaBA0GGJyqb2Aog96xgh6XRTKGz8oChs4Hifw_4lp5BhbbvWsGOMUng4-G9GbbV-Lf9k14WCd6_35Ci6w9Sq4zvlTU7rQvJntsE1snArKNLCD0sYbPG9yH7kGqDY7sOrq5wOZPScPX0ZIZw9tahgf2WM-tgPK-zL/s900/230428_waders_J_A4570-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlXhIIXTrKBTEAXEhz91-MsmCShaBA0GGJyqb2Aog96xgh6XRTKGz8oChs4Hifw_4lp5BhbbvWsGOMUng4-G9GbbV-Lf9k14WCd6_35Ci6w9Sq4zvlTU7rQvJntsE1snArKNLCD0sYbPG9yH7kGqDY7sOrq5wOZPScPX0ZIZw9tahgf2WM-tgPK-zL/w640-h426/230428_waders_J_A4570-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Curlew Sandpiper <i>(Calidris ferruginea)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3RpsK7kmH5EhekGNYzJnmBdq6qEq1XBN4UoG4NXD1U6EbFsCjDVRryOS2L0eg2ct-JsGuwdmTpm_XggOMjvnAieSpcBQcdGJls0VDeGluh_Rn8MqifcNOxRgEQp21B7zpb1Zj3thO-ssg1TWs1zwPwIfHnXynTzzGrlvnMdmLVJEo0v28yvdwBRG2/s900/230428_waders_J_A4561-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3RpsK7kmH5EhekGNYzJnmBdq6qEq1XBN4UoG4NXD1U6EbFsCjDVRryOS2L0eg2ct-JsGuwdmTpm_XggOMjvnAieSpcBQcdGJls0VDeGluh_Rn8MqifcNOxRgEQp21B7zpb1Zj3thO-ssg1TWs1zwPwIfHnXynTzzGrlvnMdmLVJEo0v28yvdwBRG2/w640-h426/230428_waders_J_A4561-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mongolian Sand Plover <i>(Charadrius mongolus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmUB-OWgUZONSC4pphJxQsiFItgL0Ux8q33i9t8R1KlpxxtWvYHBDo_oIV1zeR_3wg2jLKBXRqkITIYTwlZD9Eok7acT8UGM5RfyWVFE1jEryZEgTVVsdB040aywkswS5J-IfHXnuPZ68bVIQsP5Nxl9dE4wd1J3O-1TLsB5S9Dpj4dHroezZqN0i/s900/230428_waders_J_A4533-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmUB-OWgUZONSC4pphJxQsiFItgL0Ux8q33i9t8R1KlpxxtWvYHBDo_oIV1zeR_3wg2jLKBXRqkITIYTwlZD9Eok7acT8UGM5RfyWVFE1jEryZEgTVVsdB040aywkswS5J-IfHXnuPZ68bVIQsP5Nxl9dE4wd1J3O-1TLsB5S9Dpj4dHroezZqN0i/w640-h426/230428_waders_J_A4533-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greater Sand Plover <i>(Charadrius leschenaultii)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopjcvePkywoMDvCEYCC3vqKtBuFmf0JLGOQxnf4WVy-v2pJOSx2QN-LUYzkWQ7VWHRP_kSMbhUKC8qAxgccwWkA0aGHVcmHIBv6JxN12GT7RdRwo3M6fSwTLLUbEuo9hRJdBh0MuBQhMkPaEMkQRUCQO6lNGeySRxcUkNNqBKVaRCVvVHNFRDco3A/s900/230419_Dowitcher_J_A3801-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopjcvePkywoMDvCEYCC3vqKtBuFmf0JLGOQxnf4WVy-v2pJOSx2QN-LUYzkWQ7VWHRP_kSMbhUKC8qAxgccwWkA0aGHVcmHIBv6JxN12GT7RdRwo3M6fSwTLLUbEuo9hRJdBh0MuBQhMkPaEMkQRUCQO6lNGeySRxcUkNNqBKVaRCVvVHNFRDco3A/w640-h426/230419_Dowitcher_J_A3801-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asian Dowitcher <i>(Limnodromus semipalmatus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Still, it's an annual pleasure to view the waders in passage from the boardwalk hides at Mai Po.<p></p><p>Something never to be taken for granted !</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2F2VH+JX Mai Po, Hong Kong22.4940617 114.029926722.367149398012494 113.8925975984375 22.620974001987506 114.1672558015625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-80716507586481676452023-04-16T20:18:00.040+08:002023-04-17T13:04:54.551+08:00Mid-April at the Mai Po Boardwalk hides<p> Most of the usual suspects have been on view.....</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiNMhRd9BMCzr6w4RE1OUOpcXwuXb49wEM0EFo1_dov2qCGyWVOswlsCRbU1xuoTvNZCN_3Pms3tsJGHeqeX3k4dAOHKURcuXtT-sI3_HYibPn6LvhLr73sI_Xtpjju_VVhISGWB52hBtVcJIaUV9gx4Hx_XIdmuNpZ2g3GDuPQ3W-c2au85TzMfK/s900/230414_bwalk_J_A2777-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiNMhRd9BMCzr6w4RE1OUOpcXwuXb49wEM0EFo1_dov2qCGyWVOswlsCRbU1xuoTvNZCN_3Pms3tsJGHeqeX3k4dAOHKURcuXtT-sI3_HYibPn6LvhLr73sI_Xtpjju_VVhISGWB52hBtVcJIaUV9gx4Hx_XIdmuNpZ2g3GDuPQ3W-c2au85TzMfK/w640-h426/230414_bwalk_J_A2777-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Stint <i>(Calidris ruficollis)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeyjdASN8k1AlyHtL-auV_U3-f7eDy42pH_bbS25f3U22YTQPu2WZB28NJtNIdVC4qaCqM7Zk3OfCUyUNV2oyhZVuPhoB5U4YP9Z-gypX5X5me8guTEL2bVGG87eJ_k-l86bXGc1vzrVRAhXRyqBnjp2xJOkSohR2b6l2kJqjLstfCDFiLgy3ilnU/s900/230415_bwalk_J_A2963-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeyjdASN8k1AlyHtL-auV_U3-f7eDy42pH_bbS25f3U22YTQPu2WZB28NJtNIdVC4qaCqM7Zk3OfCUyUNV2oyhZVuPhoB5U4YP9Z-gypX5X5me8guTEL2bVGG87eJ_k-l86bXGc1vzrVRAhXRyqBnjp2xJOkSohR2b6l2kJqjLstfCDFiLgy3ilnU/w640-h426/230415_bwalk_J_A2963-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Redshank<i> - (Tringa totanus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDF_dVAfDtXfDliWPOuducKBnr74QVBefU69ADfo_Tu3IQDGJxEm80jsD65AtCqHGOIlAiSV1QQkK5961eZmUZ68QcnNKxcWqs53puX10sOKsvvjHBhzOXZ28C6VfvJfMYr5CmG1b-cf9r-IQrNzD8G6EgSMqBFIVBF_WBzj2cpuGWwqIogM7lpYT/s900/230415_bwalk_J_A3059-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDF_dVAfDtXfDliWPOuducKBnr74QVBefU69ADfo_Tu3IQDGJxEm80jsD65AtCqHGOIlAiSV1QQkK5961eZmUZ68QcnNKxcWqs53puX10sOKsvvjHBhzOXZ28C6VfvJfMYr5CmG1b-cf9r-IQrNzD8G6EgSMqBFIVBF_WBzj2cpuGWwqIogM7lpYT/w640-h426/230415_bwalk_J_A3059-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mongolian Sand Plover - <i>(Charadrius mongolus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixzVOolsxGvtpecDlqLKq-Tl2ZmBuk3EpVrffPGe-lC2L-aQwGfCRerYGKGevKKaArgg1rrzW_ILTReQ8h88Rtb7KF8-n5wgwgq8ejGN8vxnoa7feTKUhmNBXRfV83lBbwWTep8yt5zVNaqFSc4qPY0tFbpjajhSH4vD6ERxy_V0GY5ozvQLO7CACV/s900/230415_bwalk_J_A3141-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixzVOolsxGvtpecDlqLKq-Tl2ZmBuk3EpVrffPGe-lC2L-aQwGfCRerYGKGevKKaArgg1rrzW_ILTReQ8h88Rtb7KF8-n5wgwgq8ejGN8vxnoa7feTKUhmNBXRfV83lBbwWTep8yt5zVNaqFSc4qPY0tFbpjajhSH4vD6ERxy_V0GY5ozvQLO7CACV/w640-h426/230415_bwalk_J_A3141-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Knot - <i>(Calidris tenuirostris)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-BYJg9lE07xFkS7xd2T5qyvvWj4EeBmlowRUsj8Swf3jXTXf4ykZtNW8mxT2mV_P4TWJJ8aSQgLvSt0uqbrU7aJl7YlbfjwMD5M-vL3CwyQltzYw6RA0FzC_Qra1OqFlMiGxsbGu4pRMiNuHacTlFaJ9TrVStGyW-rZfG11Gw7xhRkSXyRPcHiJw/s900/230415_bwalk_J_A3144-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-BYJg9lE07xFkS7xd2T5qyvvWj4EeBmlowRUsj8Swf3jXTXf4ykZtNW8mxT2mV_P4TWJJ8aSQgLvSt0uqbrU7aJl7YlbfjwMD5M-vL3CwyQltzYw6RA0FzC_Qra1OqFlMiGxsbGu4pRMiNuHacTlFaJ9TrVStGyW-rZfG11Gw7xhRkSXyRPcHiJw/w640-h426/230415_bwalk_J_A3144-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Curlew Sandpiper - <i>(Calidris ferruginea)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUTbWLrfmT45AkhI1_DfEFOzdyM-DjGG-o5p7UQLO62AZ1EzuXMfJY1v6AXc4ZlpqVFHw-7PT5_c1Drq2_1--1jy70giagYi5EisLxoHtrxs5TF8KQsMnH1poBw9E6f7sI9Pxr9j_siRAKAVGdxAKufMSj35cAvqOtT1UhnTqgaeUWJ8txmVTxOf9/s900/230415_bwalk_J_A3156-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUTbWLrfmT45AkhI1_DfEFOzdyM-DjGG-o5p7UQLO62AZ1EzuXMfJY1v6AXc4ZlpqVFHw-7PT5_c1Drq2_1--1jy70giagYi5EisLxoHtrxs5TF8KQsMnH1poBw9E6f7sI9Pxr9j_siRAKAVGdxAKufMSj35cAvqOtT1UhnTqgaeUWJ8txmVTxOf9/w640-h426/230415_bwalk_J_A3156-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese Pond Heron - <i>(Ardeola bacchus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjso3G4DaaVoVNZEQuRlRueOESMOcxmoDQvP2cOOt9v3zMZyCy1rJXRIi60flfqCReCaDwnAP-1X_mt_zkXNfAWHRpJdnVgwsdgVMuOt5o2P5mEH10MkEOYsde79YwrtWiX0hrsc9GgrzqzB0wX4dJ6Za7kS4xlfAtgSTNGellXQLDOCN9KyrFEAsWH/s900/230416__J_A3272-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjso3G4DaaVoVNZEQuRlRueOESMOcxmoDQvP2cOOt9v3zMZyCy1rJXRIi60flfqCReCaDwnAP-1X_mt_zkXNfAWHRpJdnVgwsdgVMuOt5o2P5mEH10MkEOYsde79YwrtWiX0hrsc9GgrzqzB0wX4dJ6Za7kS4xlfAtgSTNGellXQLDOCN9KyrFEAsWH/w640-h426/230416__J_A3272-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terek Sandpiper - <i>(Xenus cinereus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Plus a couple of surprise "fly-bys" on Friday 14th April</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WPo_QayjB7rH-GZ12AsXddNdNhNmwXmeczo2r3eLqCvc6yWQHQIcQaXPmWV-gbKrsXSCQg-CBdjvOfvv9W6heV-PG4ADQ3Guby-HvwzM41_MLpjI6FLsHF-5qZ3l2Z1Ep-EnjGlebH0P7VJCy_aiWboKzCjOMAOeTot9W3sBzeBk8IVKiHJD5O3k/s900/230414_bwalk_J_A2787-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WPo_QayjB7rH-GZ12AsXddNdNhNmwXmeczo2r3eLqCvc6yWQHQIcQaXPmWV-gbKrsXSCQg-CBdjvOfvv9W6heV-PG4ADQ3Guby-HvwzM41_MLpjI6FLsHF-5qZ3l2Z1Ep-EnjGlebH0P7VJCy_aiWboKzCjOMAOeTot9W3sBzeBk8IVKiHJD5O3k/w640-h426/230414_bwalk_J_A2787-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black-legged Kittiwake</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwT7R3RjIx6K70FzvrvUeYxgZfZVLE83Z9UuiJO8xjUJMsrmXv0Xq5nnfvqHFFiL31dMLG7bNG05O4qPNlF8K1vk4iAXWywrbWCA7rfz8Z2L7fdrVnF3AjI3HxdYY18F0pxH6WqeRdiL0JOJzHDYQ2C9s2MPDFqvMs-k3wiCPK2_U3dekZc-8trSgZ/s900/230414_bwalk_J_A2802-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="900" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwT7R3RjIx6K70FzvrvUeYxgZfZVLE83Z9UuiJO8xjUJMsrmXv0Xq5nnfvqHFFiL31dMLG7bNG05O4qPNlF8K1vk4iAXWywrbWCA7rfz8Z2L7fdrVnF3AjI3HxdYY18F0pxH6WqeRdiL0JOJzHDYQ2C9s2MPDFqvMs-k3wiCPK2_U3dekZc-8trSgZ/w640-h428/230414_bwalk_J_A2802-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesser Frigatebird - <i>(Fregata ariel)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvZWCrvVYbTmCSFFCNBkg2U-jhDv0tJSzsOzKlR_vAHZZsC7y_zxy14ANCp0GvRSfTavEzltjQzHK4s3rnPsEfdUkuJDWBiep1oi_QnunD8kRoqWBXV3fEJO7RbbeGwvDwTaNaP9nHZEgXy2MAjdeMsgeyphP2yimuV48bN50QoEu5agQF6S1H3BN/s800/230414_bwalk_J_A2808-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvZWCrvVYbTmCSFFCNBkg2U-jhDv0tJSzsOzKlR_vAHZZsC7y_zxy14ANCp0GvRSfTavEzltjQzHK4s3rnPsEfdUkuJDWBiep1oi_QnunD8kRoqWBXV3fEJO7RbbeGwvDwTaNaP9nHZEgXy2MAjdeMsgeyphP2yimuV48bN50QoEu5agQF6S1H3BN/w480-h640/230414_bwalk_J_A2808-01.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesser Frigatebird - <i>(Fregata ariel)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just shows again that this is a month when anything can turn up.......</div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-2796559171762420442023-04-12T09:30:00.001+08:002023-04-12T09:30:17.946+08:00A "Twitch" for a Scoter in Deep Bay, Hong Kong - 9th April 2023<p> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy2vJNYBPjfsz-G6SeGaJXTcoFQ65MJ2o1aWANotdAIAtD59QHdVA02mYKxjJ8MLNiHrJ7HaHE04c2KsKjw-F9eG9RsI3QgbE_6g1ZKs6qFhphf7Q-6BD-Z1UcSoFetZrL5VvrODBfbh4WuUXrJDwh9roQ-7AGl5EZ4rK2o5Hiq5fb-n80qwxjX5EB/s900/230409_scoter_J_A2478-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy2vJNYBPjfsz-G6SeGaJXTcoFQ65MJ2o1aWANotdAIAtD59QHdVA02mYKxjJ8MLNiHrJ7HaHE04c2KsKjw-F9eG9RsI3QgbE_6g1ZKs6qFhphf7Q-6BD-Z1UcSoFetZrL5VvrODBfbh4WuUXrJDwh9roQ-7AGl5EZ4rK2o5Hiq5fb-n80qwxjX5EB/w640-h426/230409_scoter_J_A2478-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Velvet/Stejnegers/White-winged Scoter</b> in flight, Deep Bay, HK 9th April 2023<br /><br /><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every month for the last thirty-or-so years a Waterfowl Count has been done in and around Mai Po Nature Reserve and Deep Bay, northwest Hong Kong. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because Deep Bay is a Ramsar Site, the Agriculture,Fisheries and Conservation Department has been tasked with monitoring bird numbers through the seasons. The Waterfowl Count is co-ordinated by the <a href="http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/" target="_blank">Hong Kong Birdwatching Society</a> and involves twenty or so counters who are assigned their own areas of responsibility - all the counting is done within a two-hour “window” and results tallied later.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All this concentrated attention - as well as providing a comprehensive numbers database - has turned up some rarities over the years and on last Sunday, April 9th, another rarity was sighted by Tom LI, who was counting birds from the pier at Tsim Bei Tsui.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A WhatsApp message appeared with a photo identified by Tom as a Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca). I arrived at Tsim Bei Tsui car park - overlooking Deep Bay - to find a dozen-or-so birders there already.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Velvet Scoter is the western cousin of Stejnegers Scoter (M stejnegeri), - on range, far more likely than Velvet, wintering in inshore waters around Japan and the Russian Far East.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There was some spirited debate about the birds identity, but backed up by some fine record photos by Tom himself, Peter Wong and others, eventually the consensus was that Velvet Scoter, the less likely species, was, in fact, the bird on view in Deep Bay.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are two 1980s records of White-winged-type scoters in Deep Bay, and these have been accepted all along as "Stejnegers" Scoter. Now Velvet Scoter, if verified by the Records Committee, will be a HK “First”.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My shot, taken from Sha Kiu, is above. I confess I didn't contribute to the ID debate with this one !</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">********************************************************************************************************</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Elsewhere in Deep Bay, some views from the Mai Po boardwalk hides.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some wintering birds are leaving us now....</span></p>
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</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVLoXjpkUgbffnQ2r7XHXAyImkbsuo_nxwaklDCPcC2yD6P3VD7ShcHZEnTrc6tlLpg7wO6vNJ4zpAZxoRQ1iZcxpo9knQdaqBjaq_BDwE4lTsfuBijhtZANBQ78jZuQjLycwkg6NWTuTM7kar6Qudkoa5HF2H-DrKZRSBE7HL9xvUp-cSxyB9kFd/s900/230404_J_A2036-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVLoXjpkUgbffnQ2r7XHXAyImkbsuo_nxwaklDCPcC2yD6P3VD7ShcHZEnTrc6tlLpg7wO6vNJ4zpAZxoRQ1iZcxpo9knQdaqBjaq_BDwE4lTsfuBijhtZANBQ78jZuQjLycwkg6NWTuTM7kar6Qudkoa5HF2H-DrKZRSBE7HL9xvUp-cSxyB9kFd/w640-h426/230404_J_A2036-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pallas's Gull <i>(Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmmk1Ss-Mj9rbX-kl20HJEdrsP5TNAvRjFD2wMbEHEfn_Thi7OJAu2xxLyoMHTdTJcDwGJ4urRNG476Hz8wfLjEzdvr9QOj6vxurCaPiJNEPRi_QwIRXKZkyvlVuLHf4cluC_C-5qXAviSxaJT1LfNl9jWB57In14RiyMAiCMaFgwyLLN6ASumxUC/s900/230404_Slaty_B_J_A2346-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmmk1Ss-Mj9rbX-kl20HJEdrsP5TNAvRjFD2wMbEHEfn_Thi7OJAu2xxLyoMHTdTJcDwGJ4urRNG476Hz8wfLjEzdvr9QOj6vxurCaPiJNEPRi_QwIRXKZkyvlVuLHf4cluC_C-5qXAviSxaJT1LfNl9jWB57In14RiyMAiCMaFgwyLLN6ASumxUC/w640-h426/230404_Slaty_B_J_A2346-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(centre right) Slaty-backed Gull <i>(Larus schistisagus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwyzk2Yccu-_m94bmNHuuZ4dtU1m_tJPAvAfWG-HPf_pUKL4gX2QYAIYFrZ3x7Qy8q98z6QMJRKcCdRh9UD3hjcrEnwPDvNTI081w-4dsqFObOywzgD-fEq6cXUw_QeMd5AqzrbieQg9N4bjlJjYLM5BK7NG5MrRGsgntfRuuJ3jBXUMRbe-JM9d8u/s900/230404_Saunders_J_A2271-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwyzk2Yccu-_m94bmNHuuZ4dtU1m_tJPAvAfWG-HPf_pUKL4gX2QYAIYFrZ3x7Qy8q98z6QMJRKcCdRh9UD3hjcrEnwPDvNTI081w-4dsqFObOywzgD-fEq6cXUw_QeMd5AqzrbieQg9N4bjlJjYLM5BK7NG5MrRGsgntfRuuJ3jBXUMRbe-JM9d8u/w640-h426/230404_Saunders_J_A2271-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">last <b>Saunders Gull</b> <i><b>(Chroicocephalus saundersi) </b></i>of the year ? - boardwalk April 4th</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHLo2IlFBjJPLHH3pvk6Wg7q1xj_5PtYQWN8F5r10z-YT8j0Nhrx9KfnfrctyhvSFM1Vh3xwrrlLT4zG0ha2M6X7tVrg-xrj0IkTakJbbUvqwQFb8vW1wJ3CrQzIzvzlo2g8AMNFXS5b97PjsH4K4svBjo0Mca7uZB1maDuxxFbxRbpLvNQClH-kb/s900/230402_J_A1885-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHLo2IlFBjJPLHH3pvk6Wg7q1xj_5PtYQWN8F5r10z-YT8j0Nhrx9KfnfrctyhvSFM1Vh3xwrrlLT4zG0ha2M6X7tVrg-xrj0IkTakJbbUvqwQFb8vW1wJ3CrQzIzvzlo2g8AMNFXS5b97PjsH4K4svBjo0Mca7uZB1maDuxxFbxRbpLvNQClH-kb/w640-h426/230402_J_A1885-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Wagtail <i>(Motacilla alba <b>ocularis</b>)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9KCgXJwJMW6heyl7Oyp4SdYlNWn7oUesrLhKOlhvFS3VSOmXYgy28np7r2A8Htzolk18mhekaJ5jmN7XADzshsWuWhWE64a1KoRdFJ8A32F-NpRLZOwShRTb-tcdu2vbMCG_IhZJO5UowL3ll2LS9FjwH4HIdp2RqRObvUK316M5bxy2H--mATO3E/s900/230402_J_A1953-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9KCgXJwJMW6heyl7Oyp4SdYlNWn7oUesrLhKOlhvFS3VSOmXYgy28np7r2A8Htzolk18mhekaJ5jmN7XADzshsWuWhWE64a1KoRdFJ8A32F-NpRLZOwShRTb-tcdu2vbMCG_IhZJO5UowL3ll2LS9FjwH4HIdp2RqRObvUK316M5bxy2H--mATO3E/w640-h426/230402_J_A1953-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stejnegers Stonechat <i>(Saxicola stejnegeri)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyq-qJfbAZJHzcLGDsdQNoMTnfGYdpFcphEVbgxvNNFLP7IUUtMadl96puF9NLNRa2_Wcbit6px-xe9sXT-nO-g7iqEBTM90U3ixRSHQ7GQb6yeJSMK0qrH8KDcZEokX1-aHwRJlMoYqsKGPGj5YL2cqYYtyjh3Am-TAFKUb2E9dXG1J3zk2Ia83rx/s900/230404_J_A1980-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyq-qJfbAZJHzcLGDsdQNoMTnfGYdpFcphEVbgxvNNFLP7IUUtMadl96puF9NLNRa2_Wcbit6px-xe9sXT-nO-g7iqEBTM90U3ixRSHQ7GQb6yeJSMK0qrH8KDcZEokX1-aHwRJlMoYqsKGPGj5YL2cqYYtyjh3Am-TAFKUb2E9dXG1J3zk2Ia83rx/w640-h426/230404_J_A1980-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eastern Marsh Harrier <i>(Circus spilonotus)</i> with wader prey</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECzHlE14CJE_xM7VDe92av58OO78yRdwO8n8DFW5xZ7JufWZ_M8KCcOzubkgujaUjsLGRRs7LYb1noVh6Yru5zpZKIQQth6VLdPq86AYcRIhnaRMp1B9BWnguWBZsQ4rJqEg00yNpWTy_nbL78cuyhruAPoaOukd7UZuVePFOV5hblh2ZoCt_xvmi/s900/230402_J_A1869-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECzHlE14CJE_xM7VDe92av58OO78yRdwO8n8DFW5xZ7JufWZ_M8KCcOzubkgujaUjsLGRRs7LYb1noVh6Yru5zpZKIQQth6VLdPq86AYcRIhnaRMp1B9BWnguWBZsQ4rJqEg00yNpWTy_nbL78cuyhruAPoaOukd7UZuVePFOV5hblh2ZoCt_xvmi/w640-h426/230402_J_A1869-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-throated Pipit <i>(Anthus cervinus)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the last couple of weeks, nearly all the Great Cormorants have headed north, as have nearly all the gulls and duck.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With a few migrants around now, my pick of the waders so far is this <b>Oriental Plover <i>(Charadrius veredus)</i></b> on Pond 17A of Mai Po Nature Reserve</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Apart from the incomparable <b>Chinese White Dolphins <i>(Sousa chinensis)</i>... </b></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizVsxQD__cUfZ6coHDV78DjLHqBrxkZ4rsDWYJG5KNmEzMUVVPASgLt0NslO5tGBxbWbluK3aHQ-PedYWZqV9Z8EHCbppeC2EhQVii49MYfZVULISv4RTitMLRVwBqZaTNCF2mBL3Jhaxi2jJ-zCz_5ipLdFReXGcqqnzodO2cJZNSc0zsub4aZquc/s900/230219-dolphin03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizVsxQD__cUfZ6coHDV78DjLHqBrxkZ4rsDWYJG5KNmEzMUVVPASgLt0NslO5tGBxbWbluK3aHQ-PedYWZqV9Z8EHCbppeC2EhQVii49MYfZVULISv4RTitMLRVwBqZaTNCF2mBL3Jhaxi2jJ-zCz_5ipLdFReXGcqqnzodO2cJZNSc0zsub4aZquc/w640-h426/230219-dolphin03.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcCkXyzAGO0Q9fhBTAow-LzF7wv20UzEEHfs8CQluL-Qb5eYDt3Ay8x4OxReOQQNX-W3s4_dNlTcOhIYW067QfITK4O8_ZcT0cHeSDBzxDFIiDWlA3qGS_tUh_Uqy9hQIwYV77k1O5dfwEBIgg_WY1VexUcI3t4aJ6l0RUgmBfq_XDf6ErK_QNM0c/s900/230219-dolphin02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgbG53Zeb4n5Nz7PqgQsoklHdtJLQxqjFwW2wtffYYynPyYl_LSJIWy3DQ9JaEHOxl8e5blPSepze7kdbO555QvGASN0kWN4LVwoKuvob6KmNt7mz-Vh8Nc69RUEE2yMvchCDPL8QVMYnsGAS1aWesv7dgB_I1jCSDgh3IwiHVRrvbyIA9qhkoTBL/w640-h426/230220_MPbw_-gulls2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Heuglins" Gull - <i>Larus fuscus heuglini</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ6T-KbvkR7G_aPA79ewiAhZcthXjGZDBPIXR8zQKjlaaQ_ScSb70RvtEv4JVkAddBrJMT34JZBLZinRZTpcFaQIJ96T13gN3ZrrzT-XbbMxh0Pc218DfzPB8q90X15NCkfVjmWrfV2MrHNCvsyjJMCfyvGwotHdzODjBZZhebqCpwGm8i3E3aabPl/s900/230220_MPbw_-gulls4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ6T-KbvkR7G_aPA79ewiAhZcthXjGZDBPIXR8zQKjlaaQ_ScSb70RvtEv4JVkAddBrJMT34JZBLZinRZTpcFaQIJ96T13gN3ZrrzT-XbbMxh0Pc218DfzPB8q90X15NCkfVjmWrfV2MrHNCvsyjJMCfyvGwotHdzODjBZZhebqCpwGm8i3E3aabPl/w640-h426/230220_MPbw_-gulls4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Heuglins" Gull - <i>Larus fuscus heuglini</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0icJW7IfTSVjCfBE5E4iR7tVCMtvvSO7CEEVBFIb7FY2BGkSS18i4bRsBm3ab4D95wiXGwpz8C9k5bMRbFGohM1_9e1LAgvP3DOZgmA6ymrJiBHjda4aFwNOHcWDyiug8xP-WU8fWb_OnWhVpo1rgl__p7inGZJrW8MDVAxkiLXUCBnBbbZW8tBK/s900/230220_MPbw_-gulls5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0icJW7IfTSVjCfBE5E4iR7tVCMtvvSO7CEEVBFIb7FY2BGkSS18i4bRsBm3ab4D95wiXGwpz8C9k5bMRbFGohM1_9e1LAgvP3DOZgmA6ymrJiBHjda4aFwNOHcWDyiug8xP-WU8fWb_OnWhVpo1rgl__p7inGZJrW8MDVAxkiLXUCBnBbbZW8tBK/w640-h426/230220_MPbw_-gulls5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink legs on a LWHGull ? - points to <i>Larus vegae mongolicus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RUbCzGlDuRv3GBeu7K4J_H3TbMaSVll6OTie8Vlu3dud8CqXB-DGbcj8oFZSEyrAaATgnm_5sMmPZuBMAzvM4GzSnjFSZE0U6xKdfOHWTetzcr_-zXQRVRHyFi2JnR1AQF7ASlvYft-KCTd4JayzXzsS3kMVFQtWJG5O2bv3Jon_ocWcZB7E-B6s/s900/230220_MPbw_-gulls7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RUbCzGlDuRv3GBeu7K4J_H3TbMaSVll6OTie8Vlu3dud8CqXB-DGbcj8oFZSEyrAaATgnm_5sMmPZuBMAzvM4GzSnjFSZE0U6xKdfOHWTetzcr_-zXQRVRHyFi2JnR1AQF7ASlvYft-KCTd4JayzXzsS3kMVFQtWJG5O2bv3Jon_ocWcZB7E-B6s/w640-h426/230220_MPbw_-gulls7.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larus vegae mongolicus - 2cy, I think</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVjP2fkOdSA4nXxSOgpIumg3v-H28G8SZ3hvivVa-MZauyn5U1lnGps8seLwUnItg4XvjziKHHLAAU8frtk8Ir3fNgp49TCAhqfU6A902WvaBsvKFJQB8RLO_Dsqn-xRo8oipAcesjrOZPYW-mfgYzD2nmpJsze26Pfce9rowfE1jDrSFvmDJFB3Cr/s900/230220_MPbw_-gulls8.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVjP2fkOdSA4nXxSOgpIumg3v-H28G8SZ3hvivVa-MZauyn5U1lnGps8seLwUnItg4XvjziKHHLAAU8frtk8Ir3fNgp49TCAhqfU6A902WvaBsvKFJQB8RLO_Dsqn-xRo8oipAcesjrOZPYW-mfgYzD2nmpJsze26Pfce9rowfE1jDrSFvmDJFB3Cr/w640-h426/230220_MPbw_-gulls8.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pallas's Gull, greeted by a "mongolicus"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;">Don't get me started on the shifting sands of Gull Taxonomy.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2F2WH+34 Mai Po, Hong Kong22.4951916 114.02778622.431751050919686 113.95912144921876 22.55863214908031 114.09645055078126tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-26621523414714134052023-02-03T19:24:00.000+08:002023-02-03T19:24:01.528+08:00Oriental Storks at Mai Po<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxirfvZnfOVrH-JFlZh9PIeZgr5oE-8Vf3N6Jj-8HfGKimN8XvyHYSP4GskJkmWerY8o9l-Mjr5LhSeEMjbRnZwX4LGpyDQu--Fu5jpwcIK0RzmDLVYcNtLBt1U8zG9jgIknj4Qhlf8-pTgFknouARlWq9trNa80VBk1XQHtJ1LkFyTTVLF504Wx-x/s900/230120_J_A7891-01.jpg" style="display: block; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAHWqDo0HFUwRwu6SfEFQpOu5d2AkEpYgq_SnMVJkFjIUheBbgekOPTSp-nOBMarmuk8GFmJ7sq3VNDzWTKA124EPfOtismgAkPfropvJautQO7El_JcFjiUlQnSxWZY5grz4ANE5zTM8blBOHFWAzkQU1i5D1cM738Nq6JgjpkJJVZzr60YWJiM6/s900/BStork_221221_J_A6775-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAHWqDo0HFUwRwu6SfEFQpOu5d2AkEpYgq_SnMVJkFjIUheBbgekOPTSp-nOBMarmuk8GFmJ7sq3VNDzWTKA124EPfOtismgAkPfropvJautQO7El_JcFjiUlQnSxWZY5grz4ANE5zTM8blBOHFWAzkQU1i5D1cM738Nq6JgjpkJJVZzr60YWJiM6/w640-h426/BStork_221221_J_A6775-01.jpg" title="Black Stork - Ciconia nigra" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black Stork - <span style="font-style: italic;">Ciconia nigra</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mid-December - a <b>Black Stork</b> was the birding surprise of our winter so far, using a tree near a busy Sheung Shui junction as an overnight roost. But only for two nights that we know of.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A short walk from home, there was (were ?) a variety of winter visitors, active on the colder mornings.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyrh8nR674r5pvNGJIsT3cS20CWhgKw9igBylMLt-62viLhGnDoPDGhNCKYJHhEaYmhZLKryw8Vj2eSzWrhnZFyl6LMxLv3056yc6eRzPVYyzd2q9JQJ2EcPwOrL01y0irVBxdgOgJTg31BhvObm1w_6jE-DHXOT5xDDHdYAMV7h6NaKE8x2p3wcql/s900/RosefinchHangTauJW_22.12.30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyrh8nR674r5pvNGJIsT3cS20CWhgKw9igBylMLt-62viLhGnDoPDGhNCKYJHhEaYmhZLKryw8Vj2eSzWrhnZFyl6LMxLv3056yc6eRzPVYyzd2q9JQJ2EcPwOrL01y0irVBxdgOgJTg31BhvObm1w_6jE-DHXOT5xDDHdYAMV7h6NaKE8x2p3wcql/w640-h426/RosefinchHangTauJW_22.12.30.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Rosefinch - <i>Carpodacus erythrinus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_bIxFn1XF1zoVjP-lUW4FHWMMKuLJbX8SHIaFadqB2xkr4TimOnuUNrl8WJVBfViAWlfh5ERFNd0YJA220HLYsvhT8lf98dURRVpZDR1C-2dmsw8hx_dC0EijUuLUMJ6sTFZwGBOcnsfU6PQfkVZTcoMxGdHLclZRg_TxWGAryiWDHFRtbd9L8iq/s900/YBWarblerHangTauJW_22.12.30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_bIxFn1XF1zoVjP-lUW4FHWMMKuLJbX8SHIaFadqB2xkr4TimOnuUNrl8WJVBfViAWlfh5ERFNd0YJA220HLYsvhT8lf98dURRVpZDR1C-2dmsw8hx_dC0EijUuLUMJ6sTFZwGBOcnsfU6PQfkVZTcoMxGdHLclZRg_TxWGAryiWDHFRtbd9L8iq/w640-h426/YBWarblerHangTauJW_22.12.30.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow-browed Warbler - <i>Phylloscopus inornatus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOYW5ax1c8SOXvMi-UODVu1CkNWadIXdKDVc_Q8LMvq4vSMOCdSAPrOnJOnbp5Bl9mngZobEq8eqmiuW5A-3G4wdeu0ueSYhTxlgUxfvaIXnCSBXyknj4rdiuuOYKEaqNJQzSIwQK11HDilgOisXafoDJUv5XqMKMETNSPM-_ZQgiyvWknrg0ZuIw/s900/Pallas's_221228_W_L0479-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOYW5ax1c8SOXvMi-UODVu1CkNWadIXdKDVc_Q8LMvq4vSMOCdSAPrOnJOnbp5Bl9mngZobEq8eqmiuW5A-3G4wdeu0ueSYhTxlgUxfvaIXnCSBXyknj4rdiuuOYKEaqNJQzSIwQK11HDilgOisXafoDJUv5XqMKMETNSPM-_ZQgiyvWknrg0ZuIw/w640-h426/Pallas's_221228_W_L0479-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pallas's Warbler - <i>Phylloscopus proregulus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5_RqU3qGAoIHcWos1WPpTKDULbySsdvf0U36GFsMyrdpKSx1dCywxVojYKux7MN4rjZICpX4-RldyqgI9fl7LUwQmlor8-Fr5RrjyNDxbvZWOSang6bsfX_n-ZAkj0diHA0ZOzjmeQ2DMGS2UFMAS-lUA2xTOyZ9QjgVLDcuaz8Bcq32ms0_sO9K/s900/DuskyHangTauJW_22.12.30_-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5_RqU3qGAoIHcWos1WPpTKDULbySsdvf0U36GFsMyrdpKSx1dCywxVojYKux7MN4rjZICpX4-RldyqgI9fl7LUwQmlor8-Fr5RrjyNDxbvZWOSang6bsfX_n-ZAkj0diHA0ZOzjmeQ2DMGS2UFMAS-lUA2xTOyZ9QjgVLDcuaz8Bcq32ms0_sO9K/w640-h426/DuskyHangTauJW_22.12.30_-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dusky Warbler - <span style="font-style: italic;">Phylloscopus fuscatus</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Further afield, the woodland of Pat Sin Leng Country Park had some very seasonal offerings, too</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyYs4anyoYLmk6fZ6yGsLbXLWplna0Ce8pmWeGZnTZHb1TOpV6lUKCSQxHuIB23fn8Rhasn1OfjPqiM4HPu27GQ0MYvj4t5IrJIykUf7KIobwoJRm_VK9kkBCGLOz9b8Y43PzTCqJSD3zdcpxIV18W4qoMraGvSKnIMT4aMaRcBPxk__W4xR4bvo-/s900/RTRobin_221219_J_A6567-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyYs4anyoYLmk6fZ6yGsLbXLWplna0Ce8pmWeGZnTZHb1TOpV6lUKCSQxHuIB23fn8Rhasn1OfjPqiM4HPu27GQ0MYvj4t5IrJIykUf7KIobwoJRm_VK9kkBCGLOz9b8Y43PzTCqJSD3zdcpxIV18W4qoMraGvSKnIMT4aMaRcBPxk__W4xR4bvo-/w640-h426/RTRobin_221219_J_A6567-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rufous-tailed Robin -<i> Larvivora sibilans</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjaAlDDuavukDYeYMYxUBF5IHDDxqTDpdKNZ2Hm6G55T2st25Vn7g14aBlrfpSaNZLL85-laOri0A3HxMk4jTc1FCqy4cvPkLumRcNp0wXxAbf2LtSLQVuF9hIAXND7_F-kTsfSaTBk2FnE8QFWeSeliECE907W2J4I_l_75AxujxMtIA9YqfxLkW/s900/LSH_221219_J_A6676-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjaAlDDuavukDYeYMYxUBF5IHDDxqTDpdKNZ2Hm6G55T2st25Vn7g14aBlrfpSaNZLL85-laOri0A3HxMk4jTc1FCqy4cvPkLumRcNp0wXxAbf2LtSLQVuF9hIAXND7_F-kTsfSaTBk2FnE8QFWeSeliECE907W2J4I_l_75AxujxMtIA9YqfxLkW/w640-h426/LSH_221219_J_A6676-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rufous-faced Warbler - <i>Abroscopus albogularis</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSU88Bfbz4D6iU8iTq85ESil9HXac3bWOI2bOHZzzTQvv8e0vcdQeqzBZhU0zv6TEo17aM8CQfl1wjq6ETQtJSzsL5St8Zjx-g4VRhUW35J6lBSOxnlQRBidFmLLofUefl25bzqJXDe-4z6FxrzPn8o2aMelIyOBq8i4DEhXKjBBYjgYWyeGNHx9E4/s900/LSH_221219_J_A6590-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSU88Bfbz4D6iU8iTq85ESil9HXac3bWOI2bOHZzzTQvv8e0vcdQeqzBZhU0zv6TEo17aM8CQfl1wjq6ETQtJSzsL5St8Zjx-g4VRhUW35J6lBSOxnlQRBidFmLLofUefl25bzqJXDe-4z6FxrzPn8o2aMelIyOBq8i4DEhXKjBBYjgYWyeGNHx9E4/w640-h426/LSH_221219_J_A6590-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rufous-faced Warbler - <i>Abroscopus albogularis</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfL8tCFU7whN1EE7H5y67asR_H6OaGQFlhSj40yncdMPTmKKX9BX04sOd06cvKHAQQIdEsAk3LMBJDKcbHliDf31xwhv2K1NUzZKR-IBPifl4Dc-6nLjGLikfcjtOh7Hane6zthAt8zH_qC_AH4HtgYttkkH3D6F13sxSvcfYmSQxdV0tdSDYqznzV/s900/LSH_221219_J_A6761-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfL8tCFU7whN1EE7H5y67asR_H6OaGQFlhSj40yncdMPTmKKX9BX04sOd06cvKHAQQIdEsAk3LMBJDKcbHliDf31xwhv2K1NUzZKR-IBPifl4Dc-6nLjGLikfcjtOh7Hane6zthAt8zH_qC_AH4HtgYttkkH3D6F13sxSvcfYmSQxdV0tdSDYqznzV/w640-h426/LSH_221219_J_A6761-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grey-chinned Minivet - <i>Pericrocotus solaris</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Around the fishponds buffering Mai Po*, some of the "usual suspects"....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXd2wE13KUufr6EAifBQ308iEwjmHgPNr6SyODvGJI-432xUEqF_u_AGFLOItbiSf3tWjZrViAxadZX9UWyT7lGoG6fXHbfgAN8D120A5dCHEU0GKsrqFwUx87xn0ihDX_AEb9aSFza58kMTiaTTfr85rE2g4cIcBmA37EM25_8sIwlK29FqnTCt2/s800/Wryneck_221224_J_A7207-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXd2wE13KUufr6EAifBQ308iEwjmHgPNr6SyODvGJI-432xUEqF_u_AGFLOItbiSf3tWjZrViAxadZX9UWyT7lGoG6fXHbfgAN8D120A5dCHEU0GKsrqFwUx87xn0ihDX_AEb9aSFza58kMTiaTTfr85rE2g4cIcBmA37EM25_8sIwlK29FqnTCt2/w480-h640/Wryneck_221224_J_A7207-01.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wryneck - Jynx <i>torquilla<br /><br />Spellcheck wants to correct the latin above to "Jinx tortilla" - something I wouldn't choose from a Mexican Restaurant menu .</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGDgJF5_9mTpY3zDTs_VCHsYfe9AVVX35evtK2Y6IxmdAg32KCrH4wvQxTf0zohWMCqHce9-zOkEVgGhQ48TJ1jN2W12hTMy3aJVgMS-1YLKCjFmWjk4dwT4s-bZ3ntnEcsbDUhzYDZkMnX3h05oe0yEatY-EEDzTZQAoZDVcSdnAPkmu-eWoOtfkA/s900/scrape_221204_J_A5537-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGDgJF5_9mTpY3zDTs_VCHsYfe9AVVX35evtK2Y6IxmdAg32KCrH4wvQxTf0zohWMCqHce9-zOkEVgGhQ48TJ1jN2W12hTMy3aJVgMS-1YLKCjFmWjk4dwT4s-bZ3ntnEcsbDUhzYDZkMnX3h05oe0yEatY-EEDzTZQAoZDVcSdnAPkmu-eWoOtfkA/w640-h426/scrape_221204_J_A5537-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Tsim Bei Tsui, sunset on the "Year of the Rat"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>*Strictly, a "Wetland Buffer Area" around the Mai Po/Deep Bay Ramsar Site - long may it continue. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-67978754105688994982022-12-28T08:30:00.000+08:002022-12-28T08:30:00.534+08:00We three "Kings" at the Mai Po Boardwalk - Christmas 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1oJqWGHxfyrucneOHcZ1KW1b1CQt5-7Q-tpnnr4S-4_fC3QtUrn2pbS4JlpFNcibvVV1s_meunXiINA2SuDht-kBELaC7zJ4cO5oTNNzZ0nCTluZmew3TnBDwMfLfvSwK52FeU37qQxoLmK_Mo0bQO2s8qnNJceHpTx8IINkACYdOsns6t91skny/s900/boardwalk_221215_J_A6334-01.jpg" style="display: block; 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font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">A typhoon passing Hong Kong in early November is evidence of the reality of Climate Change.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">But, after several wet and grey days, the sun shone on November 9th and the birds performed over the fishponds of the northwest New Territories. </span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX87bPuBI-jsMih8xqo89upE86n4o__vxbLGcxVaJhvFaXIQkXfB-ZbdTZZv8iM3gTMgHd4YHCRJZZtnCVx3xaYqxSv29RrSQbcxRpSB_MKYnFgL27qvRt6zPpgVZLH0HtLk4O_ZXT3YNZnXEY_k011YestHpNdWJ7QEfYFhypB0zdSdje16u9wDI-/s900/221109_SanTin__J_A3274-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX87bPuBI-jsMih8xqo89upE86n4o__vxbLGcxVaJhvFaXIQkXfB-ZbdTZZv8iM3gTMgHd4YHCRJZZtnCVx3xaYqxSv29RrSQbcxRpSB_MKYnFgL27qvRt6zPpgVZLH0HtLk4O_ZXT3YNZnXEY_k011YestHpNdWJ7QEfYFhypB0zdSdje16u9wDI-/w640-h426/221109_SanTin__J_A3274-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Wagtail - “macronyx"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs1XNSFwRM2X2c5SVc8SWpOpM8GpYj0L766966tmPWFZCjnh-LEG28o7_XfLEzayhfaSyrAyIHdbG5AVQFATcANTv3u9JLFPskteF3wOV3KaaEdfev7UkgHqjgKyLoB4G6uHJE8n8cnXnf-KenH5kCSkzNT7y94aFGDWWHGD3b3sU85-aK7w4qOw6S/s900/221109_SanTin__J_A3355-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs1XNSFwRM2X2c5SVc8SWpOpM8GpYj0L766966tmPWFZCjnh-LEG28o7_XfLEzayhfaSyrAyIHdbG5AVQFATcANTv3u9JLFPskteF3wOV3KaaEdfev7UkgHqjgKyLoB4G6uHJE8n8cnXnf-KenH5kCSkzNT7y94aFGDWWHGD3b3sU85-aK7w4qOw6S/w640-h426/221109_SanTin__J_A3355-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Turtle Doves</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What better place to be than the fishponds bordering Mai Po Nature Reserve ?</span></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5G357+9P Mai Po, Hong Kong22.5084283 114.064333922.444985385135919 113.99566934921874 22.571871214864078 114.13299845078124tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-88592245068685544672022-10-27T08:23:00.000+08:002022-10-27T08:23:08.843+08:00Geese at the Mai Po boardwalk hides, 25th October<p><span style="font-size: medium;">A<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">nother clear and cool morning at Mai Po Nature Reserve.</span></span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I saw the tide come in at the outermost boardwalk hide, and the “usual suspects” were present, but nothing unusual. The flags on this Common Redshank were a sign that the Hong Kong bird ringers had been busy.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtN6sQ9SZNY4WJRXx54YM4DTyWd9BQjpXbbdOLLwUZ99jzHvJbHGIHyDejCp7feV_0y2b7YcDMZ96ASKMu2h_ImSxyLYvVkNsDd8zWvq0VzEDe4WT_jpNZZOL67MgCJdsn5N625pcu1gNd6E9ilfSztkRQVvsIvH39vwwxa_HNRNyHTOIuTi_IqDV/s900/waders_221026_J_A1189-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtN6sQ9SZNY4WJRXx54YM4DTyWd9BQjpXbbdOLLwUZ99jzHvJbHGIHyDejCp7feV_0y2b7YcDMZ96ASKMu2h_ImSxyLYvVkNsDd8zWvq0VzEDe4WT_jpNZZOL67MgCJdsn5N625pcu1gNd6E9ilfSztkRQVvsIvH39vwwxa_HNRNyHTOIuTi_IqDV/w640-h426/waders_221026_J_A1189-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Round at the oldest hide I met KK Hui and another photographer. We hadn’t been sitting there very long when three large, pale geese flew in and landed about 100 metres out.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOG3WOdI5_ZWvtay4e7Et8YHLSlUzLTnKk6IkQnTEmFPcxSLANMJS0u3iae8hbKY97io_owgIFkfRDTGMQ1BgKzOIjP5xxcjJHk9mIa2KFB3wAJglHgPJQtlPz_6ziRZlSSRQLMBmcB8eLu03jruIKCSrjREIgrYp7xhlNENcuX7qDSjbNSjh8ur9/s900/Greylag_MPNR_J_A0776-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOG3WOdI5_ZWvtay4e7Et8YHLSlUzLTnKk6IkQnTEmFPcxSLANMJS0u3iae8hbKY97io_owgIFkfRDTGMQ1BgKzOIjP5xxcjJHk9mIa2KFB3wAJglHgPJQtlPz_6ziRZlSSRQLMBmcB8eLu03jruIKCSrjREIgrYp7xhlNENcuX7qDSjbNSjh8ur9/w640-h426/Greylag_MPNR_J_A0776-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Greylags - a seventh or eighth record for HK</u>. They obligingly took off and circled, then landed again and drifted closer.</span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While viewing the Greylags we had a brief flyby of three Greater White-fronted Geese. By the time I’d identified them on the back of the camera they were long gone.</span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was our good fortune that, when the Greylags left after about an hour-and-a-half, the Whitefronts reappeared briefly.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCUCjG5GbjRqzdOZ4obS4BpIsOlY0fOO6bjCNhqDv094IxjxPGkthQZff_Rs8xg50NRjbWGzOqTrriGi0ikmIiIYv1FMYk5N2rsRe6XbekwmlCCHhn1btNt3ehkw4YXs9002LRq-WkH7oL4cZR8lDdCTpbUqC1aD2Z7SlJpitkYkySfs5nyuQWoJp6/s900/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A0954-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCUCjG5GbjRqzdOZ4obS4BpIsOlY0fOO6bjCNhqDv094IxjxPGkthQZff_Rs8xg50NRjbWGzOqTrriGi0ikmIiIYv1FMYk5N2rsRe6XbekwmlCCHhn1btNt3ehkw4YXs9002LRq-WkH7oL4cZR8lDdCTpbUqC1aD2Z7SlJpitkYkySfs5nyuQWoJp6/w640-h426/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A0954-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkCWc9X2T-rfngNGrh4NKvP-fKbYzcL0tdk9dhFM_yd9DaSraKMRExCEOna-EjS-aM9f36M0obiIt4YC_-7jl97Vc0ps5avAcGnmyQ4GBJGgZH-CwvQ6eICijc2MOE__q30vNP0-FJC8W7FhdW0tCzL8GMESNJSsnHk6QaWmAMiqH372P6rRkRGOP/s900/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A0958-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkCWc9X2T-rfngNGrh4NKvP-fKbYzcL0tdk9dhFM_yd9DaSraKMRExCEOna-EjS-aM9f36M0obiIt4YC_-7jl97Vc0ps5avAcGnmyQ4GBJGgZH-CwvQ6eICijc2MOE__q30vNP0-FJC8W7FhdW0tCzL8GMESNJSsnHk6QaWmAMiqH372P6rRkRGOP/w640-h426/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A0958-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Co_Z7xqm-xBgPIIqcDsuZjSrOekT-0giChqL4cehXlRZltjh5MV9XD3SNHjnuY2v4j9iPpJjlL3vMcK5iMgksgB5RhtXNjWqh1eNM_ZX7ZKq9vSqjbmmCDmlP7Ur-avJ4jhk_nK4bkNpcB_M-8Euk7pyOpWXLCbnONVg2qVjopseB9Qo6DjI8fUp/s900/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A1000-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Co_Z7xqm-xBgPIIqcDsuZjSrOekT-0giChqL4cehXlRZltjh5MV9XD3SNHjnuY2v4j9iPpJjlL3vMcK5iMgksgB5RhtXNjWqh1eNM_ZX7ZKq9vSqjbmmCDmlP7Ur-avJ4jhk_nK4bkNpcB_M-8Euk7pyOpWXLCbnONVg2qVjopseB9Qo6DjI8fUp/w640-h426/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A1000-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiIi0i8h6rVS-LLy4MoqNG9MCauAs-ShhWlM8aliflYFfu9Xj-XiKdMW5-HkXo5DIVsXk0_d6tpNTOHEjVo7XBtw_uOdQDZCD6c470L4v8UffngitbTof67oAqPCH4QPK0fzQXIL71yM7kArRCNJ9FjWZ1jURdrPdbai5tM3ITCsgewCEG2XPuKtw/s900/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A1011-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiIi0i8h6rVS-LLy4MoqNG9MCauAs-ShhWlM8aliflYFfu9Xj-XiKdMW5-HkXo5DIVsXk0_d6tpNTOHEjVo7XBtw_uOdQDZCD6c470L4v8UffngitbTof67oAqPCH4QPK0fzQXIL71yM7kArRCNJ9FjWZ1jURdrPdbai5tM3ITCsgewCEG2XPuKtw/w640-h426/Whitefront_MPNR_J_A1011-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greater White-fronted Geese - <i>Anser albifrons</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Fewer than ten HK records for this species</u>. Geese are rare in the tropics, even in the winter.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Later still, we saw all six geese heading towards Tin Shui Wai, where they were duly reported over HK Wetland Park.</span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0F2XF+5W Mai Po, Hong Kong22.4979289 114.024809622.48206865584914 114.00764346230469 22.513789144150863 114.04197573769531tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-81473798608565809912022-10-20T12:35:00.000+08:002022-10-20T12:35:15.754+08:00Winter birds arriving at Mai Po<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">On a clear and cool morning at Mai Po Nature Reserve, I joined the (mostly senior) photographers in hide number one.</span></span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the sun behind us and a lot of newly arrived winter visitor birds in front, there was plenty to look at.</span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most notably, there were at least 24 <b>Eurasian Spoonbills</b> among the spoonbill flock of just over 100 birds; - the rest being Black-faced Spoonbills, normally by far our commonest spoonbill.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrubsdKTJEyXAq7dzsoqyQxVs15ljDjVTDfNOtnFSFdW_GY30KrjFA7nIBh7MD9SCCIrc2VTwoP2KGSxLuvwq24NTpOtZV28GOSSt-oTxA6k78VOv5FYlv6LYNvgK1cf-bO60qs3hcWch5e4QoSJgHDtwuRNayMVoivyzMEyN92Uvvm63tIVaGlEE6/s900/221020_MPNR_J_A0392-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrubsdKTJEyXAq7dzsoqyQxVs15ljDjVTDfNOtnFSFdW_GY30KrjFA7nIBh7MD9SCCIrc2VTwoP2KGSxLuvwq24NTpOtZV28GOSSt-oTxA6k78VOv5FYlv6LYNvgK1cf-bO60qs3hcWch5e4QoSJgHDtwuRNayMVoivyzMEyN92Uvvm63tIVaGlEE6/w640-h426/221020_MPNR_J_A0392-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eurasian Spoonbill (eight in this view, with Black-faced)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYXeh64lEnO_P4cC7Y0bEVrjeMUHebWdMOsBDGVX-doYkLxaqPi5mu_-AOtk7gW7HbzISrrE-uaCW36DdQ07stnaQrQlr-0_IvyI2J7Fcb0USGrppT539znIFIGxzuCkW_C5jWgUvwyU4QF9f-pbs6-PRVUyZuHa6x1XSf56GSxcFKATH4Yn_suor/s900/221020_MPNR_J_A0422-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYXeh64lEnO_P4cC7Y0bEVrjeMUHebWdMOsBDGVX-doYkLxaqPi5mu_-AOtk7gW7HbzISrrE-uaCW36DdQ07stnaQrQlr-0_IvyI2J7Fcb0USGrppT539znIFIGxzuCkW_C5jWgUvwyU4QF9f-pbs6-PRVUyZuHa6x1XSf56GSxcFKATH4Yn_suor/w640-h426/221020_MPNR_J_A0422-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-Wxaw1mcnEiSA--ww3hEtPHMVuuf5gUzPRTJXRYX8vrrdhz5qi8MADjfZob7ER0xgbvOHcV_BZ6_1u4TAjALGL1P8pkr5wVWkMIROmnaGcyuShlMgzEBGuGI4m3hTuPAQSKFzCQkP-aZyn95IID9QugvIh3cwzhDY94V0UopDawKm7dXuQOAibXt/s900/221020_MPNR_J_A0426-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-Wxaw1mcnEiSA--ww3hEtPHMVuuf5gUzPRTJXRYX8vrrdhz5qi8MADjfZob7ER0xgbvOHcV_BZ6_1u4TAjALGL1P8pkr5wVWkMIROmnaGcyuShlMgzEBGuGI4m3hTuPAQSKFzCQkP-aZyn95IID9QugvIh3cwzhDY94V0UopDawKm7dXuQOAibXt/w640-h426/221020_MPNR_J_A0426-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eurasian Spoonbill</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, I’ve never seen more than five Eurasian Spoonbills at one time at Mai Po before… so I wonder if this influx was due to the dryness of Po Yang this autumn, where Eurasian far outnumbers Black-faced.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNW-jAGvbqQHKUbwXTId7cklGT2J0TQRQzIINGkXmClx2OptW1B7ZAUcdq2SH6VvKbjhN5XJxoDS9jgrDqo2YTv6QsO476g9yTBvbQGqhGQ3QxVwv1EIbn1ye07yLQPOayHovybwKNvT6nBFLCwtABbL3nzZC7BUTF-KGKfo8M55epE-H09v7gvqmY/s900/221020_MPNR_J_A0439-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNW-jAGvbqQHKUbwXTId7cklGT2J0TQRQzIINGkXmClx2OptW1B7ZAUcdq2SH6VvKbjhN5XJxoDS9jgrDqo2YTv6QsO476g9yTBvbQGqhGQ3QxVwv1EIbn1ye07yLQPOayHovybwKNvT6nBFLCwtABbL3nzZC7BUTF-KGKfo8M55epE-H09v7gvqmY/w640-h426/221020_MPNR_J_A0439-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black-faced Spoonbill</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other winter birds included duck, - here are <b>Garganey, Eurasian Teal and Shoveler.</b></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYfV4hSids_gx2qA5vD2hCxOeg3nwG2Q-qAO7TkHJlyBcHXoASdCpk1LSpiBDho30K7Wy_O4hu2mKshVXzFGSUl-OvKKhpIBjSXHTJpzVXZ-yIRJJUy1j1qAhnUzkWl0X82qAe_Ki51UvxfWQA-cvPhGsOzA5wsvyydFEBti6ZiDeRs9uR5oyQ5vJ/s900/221020_MPNR_J_A0431-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYfV4hSids_gx2qA5vD2hCxOeg3nwG2Q-qAO7TkHJlyBcHXoASdCpk1LSpiBDho30K7Wy_O4hu2mKshVXzFGSUl-OvKKhpIBjSXHTJpzVXZ-yIRJJUy1j1qAhnUzkWl0X82qAe_Ki51UvxfWQA-cvPhGsOzA5wsvyydFEBti6ZiDeRs9uR5oyQ5vJ/w640-h426/221020_MPNR_J_A0431-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Olive-backed Pipits are newly-arrived, </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQp4vsj-5roU6Jhs6aL7-b32ICHc3E56zn3rrFgld1tvxmJ692TDgxI6HN1pigAIb4L0S3LeGTaYRxjFm-7phz-tXRYAtR9XDKRgwfb5D4rqzBUt_PYNC0ZeYWKFdNmkaVR_bCVjmJxCqwVJtX1etoe1Op7inc62pcYDLlf0nfOkRzKG006_6P266/s801/221020_MPNR_J_A0491-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="601" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQp4vsj-5roU6Jhs6aL7-b32ICHc3E56zn3rrFgld1tvxmJ692TDgxI6HN1pigAIb4L0S3LeGTaYRxjFm-7phz-tXRYAtR9XDKRgwfb5D4rqzBUt_PYNC0ZeYWKFdNmkaVR_bCVjmJxCqwVJtX1etoe1Op7inc62pcYDLlf0nfOkRzKG006_6P266/w300-h400/221020_MPNR_J_A0491-01.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_OSdvPhdXOqX06ZyAAh8NtRPVnK9Y4uJ77p0S29Zdq5I41cMPPhh2p-NGahN1MNYTZ0eUUduYjAqiddypxz3M9A8BMRBb4r2ifxf-P9uenkDrulwRf-uyfpSRJ1yPITRljwRubDtCmCHUMXk73FpIBeHQhk6QDDNfZ0O7ncxB7HbN88zlCM1FKac/s900/221020_MPNR_J_A0487-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_OSdvPhdXOqX06ZyAAh8NtRPVnK9Y4uJ77p0S29Zdq5I41cMPPhh2p-NGahN1MNYTZ0eUUduYjAqiddypxz3M9A8BMRBb4r2ifxf-P9uenkDrulwRf-uyfpSRJ1yPITRljwRubDtCmCHUMXk73FpIBeHQhk6QDDNfZ0O7ncxB7HbN88zlCM1FKac/w640-h426/221020_MPNR_J_A0487-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">and this Spotted Eagle was my first of the season. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbohIOQy7PyuT469OhSHWJgACrwbJRB22CQpdnhwtNfqX0PSOlgONqMutT2-j45kTILJSFv6fQBhruXovttznontdMU_utjMv6DpQrUhMTL7O8e8uCyW8lROKjSDQDyy7d6i5FU7YLmnwN44vbuQxvzR2Cjp8hMdr2lKgyr1oRDukaznaWoEPlwoUU/s900/221020_MPNR_J_A0506-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbohIOQy7PyuT469OhSHWJgACrwbJRB22CQpdnhwtNfqX0PSOlgONqMutT2-j45kTILJSFv6fQBhruXovttznontdMU_utjMv6DpQrUhMTL7O8e8uCyW8lROKjSDQDyy7d6i5FU7YLmnwN44vbuQxvzR2Cjp8hMdr2lKgyr1oRDukaznaWoEPlwoUU/w640-h426/221020_MPNR_J_A0506-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(The Record high count for Eurasian Spoonbill was 30 on 14 March 1976) </i></span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-84662499246925574532022-08-06T14:50:00.003+08:002022-08-06T14:50:22.759+08:00Chinese White Dolphins (Sousa chinensis) south of Lantau, Hong Kong - 4th August 2022<p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGtEfEF3fRT12iLXKH2Wq0Why9gUGjcsEuu0IDOB50V-sqsaCBSlIQWb7kj3rmRuSe3TN0Y0dAMiPDXLXS_3xs_TAWfVfRrbSi6MttEKBV4bOjTETIZBbXsu0vpYB5I-RcSYl_yxNlthErQhLdpq3faD73KYimVnQvbfv7D7ktuiKdkhfw_DqIKI2h/s900/220804_southLantau_J_A51-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGtEfEF3fRT12iLXKH2Wq0Why9gUGjcsEuu0IDOB50V-sqsaCBSlIQWb7kj3rmRuSe3TN0Y0dAMiPDXLXS_3xs_TAWfVfRrbSi6MttEKBV4bOjTETIZBbXsu0vpYB5I-RcSYl_yxNlthErQhLdpq3faD73KYimVnQvbfv7D7ktuiKdkhfw_DqIKI2h/w640-h426/220804_southLantau_J_A51-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hei Ling Chau and Lantau, HK</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">We joined a southern waters boat trip on August 4th, with a plan to go to the far western tip of Lantau Island to look for Chinese White Dolphins<i> (Sousa chinensis)</i>, and look for seabirds along the way.</span></span></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Much rain seemed likely due to a passing Tropical Depression but umpteen stalwarts turned up to board the hired vessel at Aberdeen Public Pier at 07:15.</span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As things turned out much of Hong Kong got a soaking, but rain was light for us during our eight hours on the water. </span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <a href="https://www.opcf.org.hk/en/species/indo-pacific-humpback-dolphin" target="_blank">“Pink Dolphin”</a> was a symbol of the HK handover, but the local population has suffered a severe 21st century decline due to intense boat activity in Hong Kong’s western waters, made worse by construction of the HK-Zhuhai-Macau causeway and the HKIA Third Runway.</span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We found a small pod of dolphins - seven or eight, perhaps - close to the Lantau shoreline. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ORALTbyp5_AWmsd8M_KA4zKbRa-7PRy9gh3Jwhnx3QrJ2y72HvaPwpTmywUfR7q-3L-bQMSr8Z4I15ac0QYSz7cJmBhKXhLHx3oVUxDUqOHQFYdA278qzAr-g9NbAcsg0ffG9m1JScrc0rrs_zc9gWP1i-BH-plzrj_fcaXx-WB19lODj8ysEmjw/s900/220804_southLantau_J_A43-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ORALTbyp5_AWmsd8M_KA4zKbRa-7PRy9gh3Jwhnx3QrJ2y72HvaPwpTmywUfR7q-3L-bQMSr8Z4I15ac0QYSz7cJmBhKXhLHx3oVUxDUqOHQFYdA278qzAr-g9NbAcsg0ffG9m1JScrc0rrs_zc9gWP1i-BH-plzrj_fcaXx-WB19lODj8ysEmjw/w640-h426/220804_southLantau_J_A43-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Chinese White Dolphin <i>(Sousa chinensis)</i></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the way back to Aberdeen we encountered three or four small parties of <a href="https://www.opcf.org.hk/en/species/indo-pacific-finless-porpoise" target="_blank">Finless Porpoises <i>(Neophocaena phocaenoides)</i>.</a></span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We had seen a few distant Bridled Terns earlier on, but when we passed the Soko Islands on the way to Lantau the breeding population of <b>Roseate Tern</b><i><b> (Sterna dougallii)</b></i> on the Sokos was well-represented among the dozen-or-so birds that pursued the boat from time to time. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dQthSWOtg-cxTf8Ba4inEVDWGnj0EaOlRLTj1c2z1oy_XGW3-2Dw4k3i7akm2p4QhtDhFaSimUBDrxAQG5BpbCJ1gP2aH8Zrr32f7lFecSH4JIzruxkPPzpV9PS18eWYo_yJoPGbmL665tv0hO08UWVNJQe10ZOzMcQBNnCPd6M5Uv0By4U3SANI/s900/220804_southLantau_J_A50-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dQthSWOtg-cxTf8Ba4inEVDWGnj0EaOlRLTj1c2z1oy_XGW3-2Dw4k3i7akm2p4QhtDhFaSimUBDrxAQG5BpbCJ1gP2aH8Zrr32f7lFecSH4JIzruxkPPzpV9PS18eWYo_yJoPGbmL665tv0hO08UWVNJQe10ZOzMcQBNnCPd6M5Uv0By4U3SANI/w640-h426/220804_southLantau_J_A50-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uHZVcMf4EuL1Dz0s3t0qnagn412-NuKf80J5bx5UfsAbtPO3I5_88O1lFRPZVWxIf_rr0c5XbRrZDdLSfpgO-jKYWa5xm8UxSfMLtFTbBotrwup5aVGmPuCv8UeLeT4WzHdtE_dzv4ih7SVASzYn09SNc9Q1uwiXooGnwVJrvw-aCO3rkOqEi4kq/s900/220804_southLantau_J_A50-02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uHZVcMf4EuL1Dz0s3t0qnagn412-NuKf80J5bx5UfsAbtPO3I5_88O1lFRPZVWxIf_rr0c5XbRrZDdLSfpgO-jKYWa5xm8UxSfMLtFTbBotrwup5aVGmPuCv8UeLeT4WzHdtE_dzv4ih7SVASzYn09SNc9Q1uwiXooGnwVJrvw-aCO3rkOqEi4kq/w640-h426/220804_southLantau_J_A50-02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Inevitably in summertime, there were plenty of <b>Black-naped Terns <i>(Sterna sumatrana)</i></b> around too. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGMTL6FG4bO_9M4DsQgH2pUBBdSqncIgoGLcUAfizZBx71YKryAAWPQ2Rkk-KqqnTWYDsb3355hgG0r_30wrsxSjy9BJ0j9yEhEqqfGtPZ8RzDbAgQLdk3UsjuZDhKxr7P9ugnZuZCshGWQQR-28k5tADaQP7b4bynDIKSVOjnVv8z1H6L4SXkBt9/s900/220804_southLantau_J_A52-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGMTL6FG4bO_9M4DsQgH2pUBBdSqncIgoGLcUAfizZBx71YKryAAWPQ2Rkk-KqqnTWYDsb3355hgG0r_30wrsxSjy9BJ0j9yEhEqqfGtPZ8RzDbAgQLdk3UsjuZDhKxr7P9ugnZuZCshGWQQR-28k5tADaQP7b4bynDIKSVOjnVv8z1H6L4SXkBt9/w640-h426/220804_southLantau_J_A52-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;">A grand day out !</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-36136251426768266172022-08-03T10:20:00.001+08:002022-08-03T10:20:22.526+08:00Hong Kong’s three species of breeding tern from the Ma Liu Shui - Wong Shek Ferry - 2nd August 2022<p>An afternoon ferry trip this time, in hot and clear conditions. We left Ma Liu Shui (15 minutes stroll from MTR: Chinese University) at 15:00hrs.</p><p>There were about twenty photographers on board, soon lined up at the rear of the boat.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7j4qB_Gy1mIkE415oMsbsa8jLj6QXHGh_U8BNa_BrZYCwo49zQWeGFIGM9GrJ0xF-M6LlGtD832TdtQ7poCkcyy5XlX3ii0ZlroleiTwvpuk9OqHaZjpclhVWcMLtRL_KJMQEPSQyf-VT4BBiyl2T0-8WZSJ6tlpU-3x2BdeDEOW2JDsCqljB4xuU/s900/220802_ToloTerns_J_A2465-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7j4qB_Gy1mIkE415oMsbsa8jLj6QXHGh_U8BNa_BrZYCwo49zQWeGFIGM9GrJ0xF-M6LlGtD832TdtQ7poCkcyy5XlX3ii0ZlroleiTwvpuk9OqHaZjpclhVWcMLtRL_KJMQEPSQyf-VT4BBiyl2T0-8WZSJ6tlpU-3x2BdeDEOW2JDsCqljB4xuU/w640-h426/220802_ToloTerns_J_A2465-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Before the pandemic I think we took the ease of 21st-century Chinese travel for granted.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the decade up to 2020, keen birders could fly direct from Hong Kong to Wuyi Shan’s airport in an hour, and make a weekend of looking for birds like Short-tailed Parrotbill and Cabots’ Tragopan. </span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It wasn’t always so easy. In November 1986 I joined a trip jointly organised by WWF HK and the HKBWS. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There had been an official invitation from the Fujian forestry Bureau, and Mary Hotung Ketterer, Executive director of WWF HK led our group. The birders included Peter Kennerley, Pete Stevens, Verity Picken and Stewart Smith.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It took us TWO DAYS to get to Kuatun Village, near Wuyi. But, just getting there was part of the adventure.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgen0um0VPUnCpAh9LQHxG66xhlgxcw3W6jOFhO9tCPf9CdkJfH7sJb3ifvqhfOa30dxjchchEFMcG7GJe1AMmkleVsMj6bIbvFvo1aDHWPgpxsZd7quYPqKXAG4n--M-WGC0BZ_IQ_RU9gQGjTfF4xMnq0irfhnoSLKA0Li-DLIW8cUt_WtHNPxfoa/s900/Xiamen_86a_J_A0728-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgen0um0VPUnCpAh9LQHxG66xhlgxcw3W6jOFhO9tCPf9CdkJfH7sJb3ifvqhfOa30dxjchchEFMcG7GJe1AMmkleVsMj6bIbvFvo1aDHWPgpxsZd7quYPqKXAG4n--M-WGC0BZ_IQ_RU9gQGjTfF4xMnq0irfhnoSLKA0Li-DLIW8cUt_WtHNPxfoa/w640-h480/Xiamen_86a_J_A0728-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We sailed out of Hong Kong on one of the overnight ferries, heading north towards Xiamen. Here we are, off the coast of eastern Guangdong, scoping Streaked Shearwaters. This was a species only added to the “HK List” in 1985, but known to be “out there” from earlier yachting and ferry reports.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQMxhKQRccTzBgYCPmGNdIlSO-Q6jUxNxvNXdmF-hB4PnNMbHYXQUx-PLyTVw9SUIedt-yOGRiExTfio_chxUk4E1_J3CV5_JKF5j59oR24b4cmSOK0YbbxuD_CD_jpKpyj_KlRuzhutFdgMAEuGXge9JLdgLmuy-3CyqjDRSDsE1gB5dlTrqa3YI/s900/Xiamen_86b_J_A0717-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQMxhKQRccTzBgYCPmGNdIlSO-Q6jUxNxvNXdmF-hB4PnNMbHYXQUx-PLyTVw9SUIedt-yOGRiExTfio_chxUk4E1_J3CV5_JKF5j59oR24b4cmSOK0YbbxuD_CD_jpKpyj_KlRuzhutFdgMAEuGXge9JLdgLmuy-3CyqjDRSDsE1gB5dlTrqa3YI/w640-h480/Xiamen_86b_J_A0717-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The following morning, sea-birding was interrupted by the timeless spectacle of a flotilla of square-sailed fishing sampans.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As a newbie birder this was this first place I ever saw Yellow-cheeked Tit and Speckled Piculet. My photographic efforts were centred on a 645 Bronica ETRS, so I had few “keepers” among my bird photos. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuf3oZwABl0LfEDhldf6D4LV-zqadDkCqqyTOEGBDc2mNnauU7JHr_O2acZtszCZppI0VkviWc5Y0NdBYdLVXPuQcB73DaHfcLirPNZ8_FV__GmUKP7j3iecsultuQA6ELtOvcwZu2dnN7a6JqdzOYrNL8nm0dmeLuixe8uHxhx9WS23aJo5bWgZGL/s900/Xiamen_86m_J_A0754-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuf3oZwABl0LfEDhldf6D4LV-zqadDkCqqyTOEGBDc2mNnauU7JHr_O2acZtszCZppI0VkviWc5Y0NdBYdLVXPuQcB73DaHfcLirPNZ8_FV__GmUKP7j3iecsultuQA6ELtOvcwZu2dnN7a6JqdzOYrNL8nm0dmeLuixe8uHxhx9WS23aJo5bWgZGL/w640-h480/Xiamen_86m_J_A0754-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnqScBxW4NHwprIOmAipLSxcv4g-uBOFrjbWHKdBnFNXwWh7W6WEUf1_Y6ElA0UQxROC1W1wD_z_JncEH11ZYFdb9FaTop1tYHqYj535A7hM2JCqwXOCiqUNncD4-C0upzGERL0r7RgvvAugV9BH3w2XvZmxl7gJ7VCTtnOBnYu_eDwSt_4d875xs/s900/Xiamen_86n_J_A0787-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnqScBxW4NHwprIOmAipLSxcv4g-uBOFrjbWHKdBnFNXwWh7W6WEUf1_Y6ElA0UQxROC1W1wD_z_JncEH11ZYFdb9FaTop1tYHqYj535A7hM2JCqwXOCiqUNncD4-C0upzGERL0r7RgvvAugV9BH3w2XvZmxl7gJ7VCTtnOBnYu_eDwSt_4d875xs/w640-h480/Xiamen_86n_J_A0787-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dzA3StRRenR6TU5ae79j1OKbLqbG8H7oFjyw89sgqyXyeeQNBbP-2BPjh2CbQjr42n_QtYjQFGtI2-UUWApEnwHYRdoOeBMeo3kGSNUsddLdqfrj8ncDx9IuX55jW4jFwWwUihR0RSJYtkSajFlWOQRmSysprO55iBDl4lLB5EW8afoTc5s3kZdT/s900/Xiamen_86o_J_A0758-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dzA3StRRenR6TU5ae79j1OKbLqbG8H7oFjyw89sgqyXyeeQNBbP-2BPjh2CbQjr42n_QtYjQFGtI2-UUWApEnwHYRdoOeBMeo3kGSNUsddLdqfrj8ncDx9IuX55jW4jFwWwUihR0RSJYtkSajFlWOQRmSysprO55iBDl4lLB5EW8afoTc5s3kZdT/w640-h480/Xiamen_86o_J_A0758-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9SYB0E0QZM9Q0o3TY61X-PJvie-z2MDy9dLDwKWtY_jaF6jhyUdbdQum9Cs7AhO3BweeXKlrIf6y1ZxBH3PXfVLmEbKe08GxxZgS2W1yIclY7V6eG1507BcVB63eECVMGuYGQ5KLLIJk4SSMjajEysND-hgJR-oTGDnECLj_wPUwOnNAmDLX6tWcJ/s900/Xiamen_86p_J_A0789-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9SYB0E0QZM9Q0o3TY61X-PJvie-z2MDy9dLDwKWtY_jaF6jhyUdbdQum9Cs7AhO3BweeXKlrIf6y1ZxBH3PXfVLmEbKe08GxxZgS2W1yIclY7V6eG1507BcVB63eECVMGuYGQ5KLLIJk4SSMjajEysND-hgJR-oTGDnECLj_wPUwOnNAmDLX6tWcJ/w400-h300/Xiamen_86p_J_A0789-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5qCqqNSK-yw1qAxG3-Hr7NNVX4cj_oVf_V5KplnRFUdO-FGj1_HXGaqFHixrkO36JrhyeMf7W_DanOZtWj_w3oZHbovrcQJ5wCamslQ3atUS3aSEIKwGIgZIMfBvP17iX8FRfjxQgksqgmy5jxk0wfRyG9doXt741TtZsEKDHUs7XxEIw6ev4Dwwp/s900/Xiamen_86q_J_A0756-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5qCqqNSK-yw1qAxG3-Hr7NNVX4cj_oVf_V5KplnRFUdO-FGj1_HXGaqFHixrkO36JrhyeMf7W_DanOZtWj_w3oZHbovrcQJ5wCamslQ3atUS3aSEIKwGIgZIMfBvP17iX8FRfjxQgksqgmy5jxk0wfRyG9doXt741TtZsEKDHUs7XxEIw6ev4Dwwp/w640-h480/Xiamen_86q_J_A0756-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica Neue;">The views along the road that followed the ridge that marks the boundary of Fujian and Jiangxi were spectacular. I revisited this road in 2007 with <span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">“</span>Lao Lin”, late bird guide from Nanchang (Jiangxi). </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80NGPXzuHriFwGSb_lgQqeJLp2jUanL-4cCJ10Yzhx_zVV5wtqnE9EhSnd9MHlNywSZlUNyxtinZnnlAlrXoahxHpPScB27dySlDUZVhT94kC6Y-lmnxlaiz4qxFxj38omtwQMChEHhE-xwnMGecfgrqyon3JzAbTd8NLBO35p5bRkZn04A3tulhh/s400/CabotsTrag_jjholmes2-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="400" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80NGPXzuHriFwGSb_lgQqeJLp2jUanL-4cCJ10Yzhx_zVV5wtqnE9EhSnd9MHlNywSZlUNyxtinZnnlAlrXoahxHpPScB27dySlDUZVhT94kC6Y-lmnxlaiz4qxFxj38omtwQMChEHhE-xwnMGecfgrqyon3JzAbTd8NLBO35p5bRkZn04A3tulhh/w640-h426/CabotsTrag_jjholmes2-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Cabot's Tragopan</b></i> <i><b>(T. caboti)</b></i> - a nifty east China endemic, if ever there was one...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">capital, Fuzhou.</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span></span></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the the 9th floor of our oh-so-modern hotel, we were woken by the swaying of the building. An earthquake. After an hour of standing in the chilly car park, we disregarded some minor cracks in the plaster and went back inside. (Happily for us, there were no serious injuries damage in Fuzhou, the quake epicentre was across the Taiwan Strait, near Taipei).</span></p>
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We caught an early morning flight back to HK, after a week packed with things to remember. </span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-6161510081731793272022-06-15T20:28:00.029+08:002022-06-16T17:39:33.472+08:00Po Yang NNR, Jiangxi Province - December 1989 ( a “Part III”)<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrI2V0_PtTP-SzWryYmJ0gE7NAjqQX7DyIYbXxUe5RtiJYUb1iaoT-h6IVDIEIIvzOa8UMRwQh4e4wtB4PUHEyOufX172Ob8FyTA-OmX8ASpgWalZMtn18rmhc-PJqmdhjZaoqVqRHFcM6rvx-d25hCuObZstbfbBJkWnAiNMlO1kdEWs1vLNn_wV/s900/89_aPoYang_J_A9714-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrI2V0_PtTP-SzWryYmJ0gE7NAjqQX7DyIYbXxUe5RtiJYUb1iaoT-h6IVDIEIIvzOa8UMRwQh4e4wtB4PUHEyOufX172Ob8FyTA-OmX8ASpgWalZMtn18rmhc-PJqmdhjZaoqVqRHFcM6rvx-d25hCuObZstbfbBJkWnAiNMlO1kdEWs1vLNn_wV/w640-h426/89_aPoYang_J_A9714-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Po Yang National Nature Reserve Headquarters at Wu Cheng, Jiangxi</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I developed this roll of Ilford FP4 at home, soon after our return to HK from Po Yang Lake National Nature Reserve, (Jiangxi Province) at the end of 1989.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The wildlife shots come over better (obviously !) on the slide film I used, and an account of our trip in living colour is <a href="https://johnjemi.blogspot.com/2009/12/po-yang-1989-part-i.html" target="_blank">here</a>. And Part II is <a href="https://johnjemi.blogspot.com/2009/12/po-yang-1989-part-ii.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But, one camera body, one kind of film, one day in the fresh air.</span></p></div><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tDVzDkeFQpjUIMCilDT8ltKn2aORHFxlK7AN0ohVFWF57R8oSqKe-ZEQ5OTYZ4jnCXD1tHHuYLAztA0JVMjX9dkAYO6cgCc8mFLtSuG9tnhW-o0g2rMJEjF3ZmDLKCMROxq12l8Gi3O5xMIgIdsTMyEvheMA8pgSVoyYlPrw_OZiSZ-XKPA0iojs/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9682-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tDVzDkeFQpjUIMCilDT8ltKn2aORHFxlK7AN0ohVFWF57R8oSqKe-ZEQ5OTYZ4jnCXD1tHHuYLAztA0JVMjX9dkAYO6cgCc8mFLtSuG9tnhW-o0g2rMJEjF3ZmDLKCMROxq12l8Gi3O5xMIgIdsTMyEvheMA8pgSVoyYlPrw_OZiSZ-XKPA0iojs/w426-h640/89_PoYang_J_A9682-01.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike Turnbull and one of the Reserve Staff</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At the end of December floodplains of the Yangtze River seemed cold and windswept, even though Nanchang, Jiangxi’s capital was a short flight from Kai Tak. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, on the pretence that black-and-white may have captured the grey atmosphere of the area well, here are a few shots.</span></p></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vCWoyKTBB3_AuSyDE4LstKJFRod9DVPE0TmaS7XtsoNFO33DnPjCA30JfQNbqURdDhU1BniGZCnLzmDxgdZy06TdDGxsWV6pxE4tJljbtMgT0eY0V6GbqBmgb2DI17-wiPc9tKvxHUn1rqrFPuILj1da67sW_Bl43WDJBrLYbLYCMIRCfbhegdBM/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9685-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vCWoyKTBB3_AuSyDE4LstKJFRod9DVPE0TmaS7XtsoNFO33DnPjCA30JfQNbqURdDhU1BniGZCnLzmDxgdZy06TdDGxsWV6pxE4tJljbtMgT0eY0V6GbqBmgb2DI17-wiPc9tKvxHUn1rqrFPuILj1da67sW_Bl43WDJBrLYbLYCMIRCfbhegdBM/w640-h426/89_PoYang_J_A9685-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQNcYWel6xxDhpbXFYGaWAyWZspWA1mXM7bJdUvKO34XnrbEptinBtzHgpog1OP0K8gOPfoklma9f7drFB1XRB_VMUixs52w7dxf-TWKBjc-EG4hBlSF6MsHrAn_EhkZxeJ45yrCXk-OuS0EnT8K8R91xX9Jfz03R5WkcObK2MvUmQlJ-nF2KoRUF/w640-h426/89_PoYang_J_A9690-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Siberian Cranes</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1tA9r3PuRFIcYbpKN0n_X1B1tbwFeMoAPh4lg5C3Q372mNboNX5AoWgrpVRwRNhU7NvGx9P6QLF5eFYAqBAaHGKg2IXoMaxQpunKVihuVoZncrRUBDS2K8Bz5mUTIoC49cZ2zFYzJ531w7pWi40Y7CoyeWR2usG0jGzlRyNM7njCdyD8h5T69LYv/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9695-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1tA9r3PuRFIcYbpKN0n_X1B1tbwFeMoAPh4lg5C3Q372mNboNX5AoWgrpVRwRNhU7NvGx9P6QLF5eFYAqBAaHGKg2IXoMaxQpunKVihuVoZncrRUBDS2K8Bz5mUTIoC49cZ2zFYzJ531w7pWi40Y7CoyeWR2usG0jGzlRyNM7njCdyD8h5T69LYv/w640-h426/89_PoYang_J_A9695-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Siberian Cranes, with White-naped Cranes (rear) and Swan Geese (front)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKC8ewZgcKPxuOPow9UrS_aK6qKmwl4XlK9FQJU82YkAva5Ruvv3b1JT3efu4v4MvmLs89TIuhRBHjEwHuHScHB3BewX4HdBkNpyQW1ZGFDYNTbCEq2ClAFcE2_ZMEqc2JQ4ur4WDuTOTT6E5_WXOc-Fr_GgbEU-ho1PReDETlymbTvEbs5zvznaJ/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9696-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKC8ewZgcKPxuOPow9UrS_aK6qKmwl4XlK9FQJU82YkAva5Ruvv3b1JT3efu4v4MvmLs89TIuhRBHjEwHuHScHB3BewX4HdBkNpyQW1ZGFDYNTbCEq2ClAFcE2_ZMEqc2JQ4ur4WDuTOTT6E5_WXOc-Fr_GgbEU-ho1PReDETlymbTvEbs5zvznaJ/w640-h426/89_PoYang_J_A9696-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An extensive area of sand dunes, with horizons disappearing in the winter hazes, provided an other-worldly scene. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not many birds out there, as it turned out.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUr6kpnBfOkTABqoT7uieAUfJN9ko0JD-fGFPeH_O7SabkUs5_WGAwDnFg9ORPMlQtRSDVnH4enf5s_jymq7rqTer6nk2jEdAK4y83ue_ySvM-znYIPlmJolPm2DGg9Pv9KlY6SpmXvrThI1UvxODvtXtbhRrSDuw61D6XSuSJgvtoE7X1coLcwVsm/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9701-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back at Wu Cheng town I was intrigued to see people digging away in narrow trenches, and coming up with lintel stones, and other pieces of carved masonry.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Japanese Air Force had bombed the boatyards and warehouses of Wu Cheng during World War Two. Among the remains of the many ruined buildings, some enterprising recovery and re-cycling was under way.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimjuOeqpOUQOmWLaborR9w-6AMjrPSyrtHOb4qY_msi0XEHdGm4IOfZxSqnRJWDeQTfk6e5G_wLhhAo7bVS5EmoJuvJvpfEW4P4hT4MR6yOqkWkjnHSvjFN8opbgGmZJ5GpeCstT8UhM5JeOhjfDPlxaDec74uSXzOMv6kN-fUsWcIwqJCt0iqUk9V/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9715-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimjuOeqpOUQOmWLaborR9w-6AMjrPSyrtHOb4qY_msi0XEHdGm4IOfZxSqnRJWDeQTfk6e5G_wLhhAo7bVS5EmoJuvJvpfEW4P4hT4MR6yOqkWkjnHSvjFN8opbgGmZJ5GpeCstT8UhM5JeOhjfDPlxaDec74uSXzOMv6kN-fUsWcIwqJCt0iqUk9V/w640-h426/89_PoYang_J_A9715-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigrzIkJo5Y3RC7b_jICJ-ksVlbmBDVjCQrXeOkk-3y1R0L2UoPg41fNmr3E6nbNNipMrVBDCFpLKuSrRR2Y5dsLmnVo6zOhMwccVnHMOW4NhfbS4taZChNgagJZ9nXS0Aejt_Jut1Wa8gHVXPCzvKoqbW6nVrYdhx3rj9uF2YscFF9QTdg_FTveEVs/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9716-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigrzIkJo5Y3RC7b_jICJ-ksVlbmBDVjCQrXeOkk-3y1R0L2UoPg41fNmr3E6nbNNipMrVBDCFpLKuSrRR2Y5dsLmnVo6zOhMwccVnHMOW4NhfbS4taZChNgagJZ9nXS0Aejt_Jut1Wa8gHVXPCzvKoqbW6nVrYdhx3rj9uF2YscFF9QTdg_FTveEVs/w640-h426/89_PoYang_J_A9716-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2FeUbNetjnh1TLanJj9vpyUwd1q9moaly8BmLxD1Geg7r2efQBQak0Q852NBJE2tVBAGeaCvIOsO5ya45g3_R1CFV3DxMoieHTc4qyUTNMeW8szNx2wekjhW-doMUAFSpeIdvSczyvfprcFlNyF_eux-oCtSbgvLaHwAnau_KIQGxjVV8zzB9bHWX/s900/89_PoYang_J_A9717-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2FeUbNetjnh1TLanJj9vpyUwd1q9moaly8BmLxD1Geg7r2efQBQak0Q852NBJE2tVBAGeaCvIOsO5ya45g3_R1CFV3DxMoieHTc4qyUTNMeW8szNx2wekjhW-doMUAFSpeIdvSczyvfprcFlNyF_eux-oCtSbgvLaHwAnau_KIQGxjVV8zzB9bHWX/w640-h426/89_PoYang_J_A9717-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some shots from just one memorable day of China birding. </span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-16277549928233123242022-06-01T07:54:00.023+08:002022-07-03T17:54:09.151+08:00The WWF Hong Kong “Big Bird Race” - 1988<p>An annual fund-raising event, started in 1985 with four teams which rapidly expanded to around a dozen. </p><p>“Bucks for Mai Po” was the mantra, and, with many participants from the business world, sums exceeding two million HK dollars were raised annually for <a href="https://www.wwf.org.hk/en/" target="_blank">Worldwide Fund For Nature’s</a> work at Mai Po Marshes Nature Reserve.</p><p>In those days it was a 20-hr event, - 00:01 to 20:00hrs - with the winners declared at the HK Jockey Club Beas River centre later in the evening. (After 1989 or 1990 they went over to 24hrs, 18:00 to 18:00)</p><p>I had an Olympus XA 2 and B&W film. 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOq3lbppkAHf52bRZCuI4afSBgzB6ud7u6kUyUtvhI-VXisAAJ-xakBiLEyDQHAocFiPJpdIIhsAgbS96-A1W3TwT0ti_c89X4BaMUzRXFhtROFG5YQW8sflIDis49N8b6Hk0cRxKvzGOTBtEeRbyBtqutnrMd-dm3xs8Vj9LPAm-SlqQHjFs5F2p/s900/Skyline_J_A8309-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOq3lbppkAHf52bRZCuI4afSBgzB6ud7u6kUyUtvhI-VXisAAJ-xakBiLEyDQHAocFiPJpdIIhsAgbS96-A1W3TwT0ti_c89X4BaMUzRXFhtROFG5YQW8sflIDis49N8b6Hk0cRxKvzGOTBtEeRbyBtqutnrMd-dm3xs8Vj9LPAm-SlqQHjFs5F2p/w640-h426/Skyline_J_A8309-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shenzhen skyline from the the Mai Po boardwalk hide (500mm view)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKdDGcpybLlfAJa4u-0r-hC9kWeLurvdSn_ERXuLEQ8YX1EYk6zPGDyUCD_6JZyxjEzqyonPknxD01za95q6CWey337Ndu_vkvW_rj1VcaXL2WPQfJSzOQUvQm5p8I67_usjci-TQxfqHhiEra4sPCoucB2sWwa5DalxcRMsbY2nRIvoGIq8Qd9BJ/s900/WWTern_J_A8695-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKdDGcpybLlfAJa4u-0r-hC9kWeLurvdSn_ERXuLEQ8YX1EYk6zPGDyUCD_6JZyxjEzqyonPknxD01za95q6CWey337Ndu_vkvW_rj1VcaXL2WPQfJSzOQUvQm5p8I67_usjci-TQxfqHhiEra4sPCoucB2sWwa5DalxcRMsbY2nRIvoGIq8Qd9BJ/w640-h426/WWTern_J_A8695-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern -<i> (Chlidonias leucopterus) </i>-non-breeding<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-MYerbyI-VziMKKOsBCwpK1xmB_Fyzw8MBfusM-o84fbtDR3256N-Gl5oiKoAvlYY1FwevFvrxmJN-YuHeGUcpX_XxFp37LyRecFMYd0AcY7kNhxe6uIc9r5r-7GEYmVVYNbBpxx8nAqiTyp3dMuToiOQr1VcpCixGAklSMWiyCmBExH4o4yuD2J/s900/WWTern_J_A8880-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-MYerbyI-VziMKKOsBCwpK1xmB_Fyzw8MBfusM-o84fbtDR3256N-Gl5oiKoAvlYY1FwevFvrxmJN-YuHeGUcpX_XxFp37LyRecFMYd0AcY7kNhxe6uIc9r5r-7GEYmVVYNbBpxx8nAqiTyp3dMuToiOQr1VcpCixGAklSMWiyCmBExH4o4yuD2J/w640-h426/WWTern_J_A8880-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern -<i> (Chlidonias leucopterus) </i>-non-breeding<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgahhitXE35ziSVtBGN9K8owTWIk9qspqvS5qomwZ2WbgQ-IYrhULdwyPkXY0kJ4-_3a_jk5hil3XjYZyeXn2L59BGJ8afN6mfZgBTeJosF6jMw8_aIzPVk1Eoly_SFDALz4USnk8MfKJTIMn87GpxPcQX-dig00XlpiIot6XP7QyIPoZ8VE6rXNoIV/s900/WWTern_J_A9076-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgahhitXE35ziSVtBGN9K8owTWIk9qspqvS5qomwZ2WbgQ-IYrhULdwyPkXY0kJ4-_3a_jk5hil3XjYZyeXn2L59BGJ8afN6mfZgBTeJosF6jMw8_aIzPVk1Eoly_SFDALz4USnk8MfKJTIMn87GpxPcQX-dig00XlpiIot6XP7QyIPoZ8VE6rXNoIV/w640-h426/WWTern_J_A9076-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern -<i> (Chlidonias leucopterus) </i>-non-breeding<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwgfgOJ9oxF1yqsxQLAPtYa4tnNSBbQz4OdkEEKsdLXfeI4v5ZOWCbM1UQ1wb4biRcv7OE6mlqW283bDHRQDlX_AGZBxsM4c1QdnKW1mjpn11BwqQp3vJDZhomf3vZc_Frf4Ll6CZXTxeNNQb7AH8oMMB8Qc6G-IPtOWxtRCPjo0H5DQdmCKRDr_NY/s900/WWTern_J_A9083-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwgfgOJ9oxF1yqsxQLAPtYa4tnNSBbQz4OdkEEKsdLXfeI4v5ZOWCbM1UQ1wb4biRcv7OE6mlqW283bDHRQDlX_AGZBxsM4c1QdnKW1mjpn11BwqQp3vJDZhomf3vZc_Frf4Ll6CZXTxeNNQb7AH8oMMB8Qc6G-IPtOWxtRCPjo0H5DQdmCKRDr_NY/w640-h426/WWTern_J_A9083-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern -<i> (Chlidonias leucopterus) </i>-non-breeding<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This bird, like some of the other terns, appeared to be feeding on the many “Planthoppers” <i>(Ricania sp.) </i>around at this time of the year.</div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGLUtl_OvWl5xcYCnqm6KQgxQL2Z2C4_kgzaZa05ZWmm4gCpgj4LyNgoNyEcqILlshSH_TvfA6sJPwHC3Mvvn4EqMJCRn_6dOZmfJ81hm2qIhnblg3BGp5Peaqr7PGOFzpTpxVehmBvA8KkfCVSH77OHmBGhtDEA9UA0A4_VE5eizMLHVLEf8Q3Ko/s900/WWTern_J_A9161-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGLUtl_OvWl5xcYCnqm6KQgxQL2Z2C4_kgzaZa05ZWmm4gCpgj4LyNgoNyEcqILlshSH_TvfA6sJPwHC3Mvvn4EqMJCRn_6dOZmfJ81hm2qIhnblg3BGp5Peaqr7PGOFzpTpxVehmBvA8KkfCVSH77OHmBGhtDEA9UA0A4_VE5eizMLHVLEf8Q3Ko/w640-h426/WWTern_J_A9161-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern -<i> (Chlidonias leucopterus) </i>-non-breeding</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76TZGmukZ2TXCqLFBQLebNTxMT3xMwFp-9g5AV9Loorzdy5a3QDQcMi6L0KvwcC4uN6vp-_cwRYtlOeXFDNuD9yY7WhYWacQb6VZnGcbAl2QRtBqx8vVnaNqQO18IO82RQdqyh4PN6Rd4hZ3ZTO4wGTiawxwF4srRIscaSYZP7iaxPi4LYuDgofVR/s900/WWTern_J_A9167-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76TZGmukZ2TXCqLFBQLebNTxMT3xMwFp-9g5AV9Loorzdy5a3QDQcMi6L0KvwcC4uN6vp-_cwRYtlOeXFDNuD9yY7WhYWacQb6VZnGcbAl2QRtBqx8vVnaNqQO18IO82RQdqyh4PN6Rd4hZ3ZTO4wGTiawxwF4srRIscaSYZP7iaxPi4LYuDgofVR/w640-h426/WWTern_J_A9167-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern -<i> (Chlidonias leucopterus) </i>-non-breeding<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">“Skyscraper Bokeh” - more and more of a thing in Deep Bay these days....</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL-X0AAUeu1plUy0bYtyUhGpUmzRusUlKloUmfmdGA1LhVeepzuKC_fY9Dhn8ZQUKetyHjhrb1vkDMCXpHcIR6GRdHzoBdCwugUVMlf3NJWFLZO9j9YsK5y1H02OOAd885jG0izz_vk6t8SpvTW2lGVdpVvDWIVi-JebYjnvsKkhWchok8TQRvZx21/s900/YellowBittern_J_A8854-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL-X0AAUeu1plUy0bYtyUhGpUmzRusUlKloUmfmdGA1LhVeepzuKC_fY9Dhn8ZQUKetyHjhrb1vkDMCXpHcIR6GRdHzoBdCwugUVMlf3NJWFLZO9j9YsK5y1H02OOAd885jG0izz_vk6t8SpvTW2lGVdpVvDWIVi-JebYjnvsKkhWchok8TQRvZx21/w640-h426/YellowBittern_J_A8854-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Bittern - <i>Ixobrychus sinensis</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> Finally, not a Tern at all ! Some Yellow Bitterns breed in HK - this <i>might</i> be one of them ....<p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3F2XM+W6 Mai Po, Hong Kong22.4997757 114.033052622.372868632071487 113.8957234984375 22.626682767928514 114.1703817015625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-92180869700437128902022-05-10T13:48:00.002+08:002022-05-12T18:55:33.176+08:00Hong Kong Southern waters boat trip - 9th May 2022<p><b>Hong Kong’s Tern migration period is peaking</b>, and eight tern species were seen on yesterday’s boat trip. In no particular order, they were: -</p><p><i>Hong Kong breeders (and passage birds)</i></p><p>Roseate</p><p>Black-naped</p><p>Bridled</p><p>and <i>“strictly passing through”</i></p><p>Aleutian</p><p>Great Crested</p><p>White-winged</p><p>Little</p><p>Eastern Common</p><p>Throw in a couple of hundred <b>Red-necked Phalarope </b>and one close <b>Short-tailed Shearwater</b>, then one has all the ingredients of a memorable day out.</p><p>Like this</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ZRkRrMpXvUmKZOqKbWgSAIMiHCXMLVBObSOySD2jgRhSWlrjVIwTpN0h0NGXEJVuLsx9URVwrHhiLISEccfvG5SQXca7-1pQu7pVOAtjp0YezA4aEKUD2j6amDbKms1EV7YPGePYrEYsAtOAS7r3EoadvayayfyBvKqZWrG5XyikIUwVDGjlN2S2/s900/220509_boat_J_A5691-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ZRkRrMpXvUmKZOqKbWgSAIMiHCXMLVBObSOySD2jgRhSWlrjVIwTpN0h0NGXEJVuLsx9URVwrHhiLISEccfvG5SQXca7-1pQu7pVOAtjp0YezA4aEKUD2j6amDbKms1EV7YPGePYrEYsAtOAS7r3EoadvayayfyBvKqZWrG5XyikIUwVDGjlN2S2/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A5691-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern - <i>Chlidonias leucopterus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8Axl2aB7l0KnEoI95YLGL_wLRQQvyvhCLQ5ftT865aCYDC726V6Rc98003Hkg-nrg7b86-m1azGjS6PuKPABpvPytIyj4QulTNQXNC0dhWFdIwlqSnq_BKLVk6oCDkJFC2pULvBknbYp9G0L1eyFiywNLKFPZpRurgJPvehpb9UDdEDFdFUHatNw/s900/220509_boat_J_A5793-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8Axl2aB7l0KnEoI95YLGL_wLRQQvyvhCLQ5ftT865aCYDC726V6Rc98003Hkg-nrg7b86-m1azGjS6PuKPABpvPytIyj4QulTNQXNC0dhWFdIwlqSnq_BKLVk6oCDkJFC2pULvBknbYp9G0L1eyFiywNLKFPZpRurgJPvehpb9UDdEDFdFUHatNw/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A5793-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short-tailed Shearwater - <i>Ardenna tenuirostris</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7-e5W63HCokq_ExZMWFVXqIC745LZHdKFyRe6HdOpcR3dKMOHPkXvwoq9vYSMdEN2NSg6l6bRwFfWlfqvpaIyF_TeqVJPqnS23Iq8BF8rtDTcke5UsS4At9LeetDljLcqnsxG9cwQzEy950aLACJRkzKB9J_t4A6ufVteHJ6klPFIeeH7Ni5LtpKA/s900/220509_boat_J_A5795-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7-e5W63HCokq_ExZMWFVXqIC745LZHdKFyRe6HdOpcR3dKMOHPkXvwoq9vYSMdEN2NSg6l6bRwFfWlfqvpaIyF_TeqVJPqnS23Iq8BF8rtDTcke5UsS4At9LeetDljLcqnsxG9cwQzEy950aLACJRkzKB9J_t4A6ufVteHJ6klPFIeeH7Ni5LtpKA/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A5795-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short-tailed Shearwater - <i>Ardenna tenuirostris</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijfDnm_Oup7V9iBh3ImQuBqgFx8sLuFOM7bZqdEYRzXb140Zho2a7L4LLHbZz5EU9Ai6uFb_hYDT5ZDoWiecscIP5-pblNjXTUaMKeTaK9P6bUhRj-yOGZpOabovnnVhhFdW0rru5KTSxVvto0lxyV3L_UXZn6-VGwgc-NyYYByhhbRlH_Rz3j6Wk4/s900/220509_boat_J_A5833-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijfDnm_Oup7V9iBh3ImQuBqgFx8sLuFOM7bZqdEYRzXb140Zho2a7L4LLHbZz5EU9Ai6uFb_hYDT5ZDoWiecscIP5-pblNjXTUaMKeTaK9P6bUhRj-yOGZpOabovnnVhhFdW0rru5KTSxVvto0lxyV3L_UXZn6-VGwgc-NyYYByhhbRlH_Rz3j6Wk4/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A5833-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short-tailed Shearwater - <i>Ardenna tenuirostris</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN89pyTxP8Ry8u21Ov6yTlOREu60-OPILzGQT8fxCvXJJafFuz3_qPG1yj_DOz2MKpSjAEeKQdKMVMgGFKGg1BgkUv4EZ_0VRQQfZK6VVYrlqtPfbKsRZ_nckhapmRYU093Cvml_HzRVroNQSNXYUud3XPh40e9QFo94nSPJqXGGB9G1iyfzND0xOO/s900/220509_boat_J_A5945-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN89pyTxP8Ry8u21Ov6yTlOREu60-OPILzGQT8fxCvXJJafFuz3_qPG1yj_DOz2MKpSjAEeKQdKMVMgGFKGg1BgkUv4EZ_0VRQQfZK6VVYrlqtPfbKsRZ_nckhapmRYU093Cvml_HzRVroNQSNXYUud3XPh40e9QFo94nSPJqXGGB9G1iyfzND0xOO/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A5945-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>Phalaropus lobatus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30W3VdDRywZTf-RMSi8tYO-dS3ljjxcEW73VWK6VwIZ7CN0MFJYRUUUOnE2Dhkl36ibW2WzbxgohW8U8cB_ndywAr4awDIctmhxtrK-hWO-9OKqHTgt6jUzchuh0Z6GFRC4CBXKv-vqW3OBAzl9zMT5OnFBG0PeDZrclW1mSmEosQH9Q_FcPOMuTj/s900/220509_boat_J_A6507-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30W3VdDRywZTf-RMSi8tYO-dS3ljjxcEW73VWK6VwIZ7CN0MFJYRUUUOnE2Dhkl36ibW2WzbxgohW8U8cB_ndywAr4awDIctmhxtrK-hWO-9OKqHTgt6jUzchuh0Z6GFRC4CBXKv-vqW3OBAzl9zMT5OnFBG0PeDZrclW1mSmEosQH9Q_FcPOMuTj/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6507-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>Phalaropus lobatus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTovshscdJAJLOZyMWOyvjA5qItMc2D5dypgaZnSbLqOVx06SgrdbztJgywLwoT9DSkoqiOj3Gmv-IHZT5LiYzO8qY8AmfwqL_XqEeuxC5QJ6UM1CzwI4yyZJJGu0g0-4XCFtAerzONfM0enReZrMRgD8Ao81dO43Zby31k7oF2HD3CmQXKol61QyO/s900/220509_boat_J_A6579-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTovshscdJAJLOZyMWOyvjA5qItMc2D5dypgaZnSbLqOVx06SgrdbztJgywLwoT9DSkoqiOj3Gmv-IHZT5LiYzO8qY8AmfwqL_XqEeuxC5QJ6UM1CzwI4yyZJJGu0g0-4XCFtAerzONfM0enReZrMRgD8Ao81dO43Zby31k7oF2HD3CmQXKol61QyO/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6579-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>Phalaropus lobatus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDjnFc7v_jEJih8fR_tubAhVBkXgtJ2j46L1h1RlmAGij0p3pPvVvJWqAedU_09ZO-zJQCxsiHWkfXmbDZG87D3l27EVnpm6u01mzxTskAMRoA4pD6rWRsyA7lvmVDJfw2_RhbYBJ0xPL1qnlzZ8B3YmawkksBP5DVn_aWx1-W44gBX52aTglloQOe/s900/220509_boat_J_A5968-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDjnFc7v_jEJih8fR_tubAhVBkXgtJ2j46L1h1RlmAGij0p3pPvVvJWqAedU_09ZO-zJQCxsiHWkfXmbDZG87D3l27EVnpm6u01mzxTskAMRoA4pD6rWRsyA7lvmVDJfw2_RhbYBJ0xPL1qnlzZ8B3YmawkksBP5DVn_aWx1-W44gBX52aTglloQOe/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A5968-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Phalarope - <i>Phalaropus lobatus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBKznDGV1arUjRNAuIZ8Nbn69eZqGNltoxRIVFzO16D2LDbHCE-sTFM3Z9W_HbUunv5IHLvcxXpOHdaOwpfmcLZj_j3AhSMZEIThY1oSSXY13wwsHcgMx2koeL4LzDCB4LWsphuwYLr_WabPiCrA--EU3L50eqfFjy3Pe-xMnCC4Qy8SDWSZ3KYwn/s900/220509_boat_J_A5590-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBKznDGV1arUjRNAuIZ8Nbn69eZqGNltoxRIVFzO16D2LDbHCE-sTFM3Z9W_HbUunv5IHLvcxXpOHdaOwpfmcLZj_j3AhSMZEIThY1oSSXY13wwsHcgMx2koeL4LzDCB4LWsphuwYLr_WabPiCrA--EU3L50eqfFjy3Pe-xMnCC4Qy8SDWSZ3KYwn/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A5590-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridled Terns - <i>Onychoprion anaethetus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjub5ZOWMLGsDcOEnXXHzg8fO4-WGTuMYi9ub8FmbjG7uEw6UjlWG6uBVZdUhT6Sk0GqPth_jY-PQVZigkLZUUXr8vkBMzsU6tUhuKejPBfjzzP-6-pzvhDI53kNPAe25dm3IYOZ25MPp-zL0ef82ylpZstreX4AlJ7ehv3KpEuA2Gwk-EuflRNbrts/s900/220509_boat_J_A6065-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjub5ZOWMLGsDcOEnXXHzg8fO4-WGTuMYi9ub8FmbjG7uEw6UjlWG6uBVZdUhT6Sk0GqPth_jY-PQVZigkLZUUXr8vkBMzsU6tUhuKejPBfjzzP-6-pzvhDI53kNPAe25dm3IYOZ25MPp-zL0ef82ylpZstreX4AlJ7ehv3KpEuA2Gwk-EuflRNbrts/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6065-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aleutian Tern - <i>Onychoprion aleuticus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRczutN1uCn2ol31xuglhPKktK9wX8K2Tr1M8e3lcUxcCOD4GCOwsGhgLgsDwRUmdsvP07IUSRb0G7XFfECUyMaLXSFAkD6ylz2_A4CoiSZv2lNWEVScIS0PCCJT-BA_qe_xWNL71CYEKxZN5trR4biiQykAza0dXue95BhDFea6z2ijF7V6GTNxJA/s900/220509_boat_J_A6858-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRczutN1uCn2ol31xuglhPKktK9wX8K2Tr1M8e3lcUxcCOD4GCOwsGhgLgsDwRUmdsvP07IUSRb0G7XFfECUyMaLXSFAkD6ylz2_A4CoiSZv2lNWEVScIS0PCCJT-BA_qe_xWNL71CYEKxZN5trR4biiQykAza0dXue95BhDFea6z2ijF7V6GTNxJA/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6858-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aleutian Tern - <i>Onychoprion aleuticus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptRWOqI-NnfJMXtnK8x7_6wl7Gk93NM6L_tYlNFOtAh6t7XKcn2O9KiyP2I2_xduHnYL90M3r3D5bAEXlEfT9-s7zKwDo5G-h8fdPineYFmKWOdkHHku2sT80G9XLUXM2xb3XvsB1fe0dww9Qn60tVfTDAKwh-kJMaq2qa7Zb8DTGn_M8LRUAIinz/s900/220509_boat_J_A6068-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptRWOqI-NnfJMXtnK8x7_6wl7Gk93NM6L_tYlNFOtAh6t7XKcn2O9KiyP2I2_xduHnYL90M3r3D5bAEXlEfT9-s7zKwDo5G-h8fdPineYFmKWOdkHHku2sT80G9XLUXM2xb3XvsB1fe0dww9Qn60tVfTDAKwh-kJMaq2qa7Zb8DTGn_M8LRUAIinz/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6068-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Tern - <i>Sterna hirundo</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qQOT-80S16V7CVkLygyJ9kD021U7HuldrIPw0cQ-zwsqUsHLoPOAgY6bCXA7m4BP3Oe8F6GoL01PvJUtYx8m8EPC9bSChrU3ds7rsSaj7fV1d6AjUG2ktyBB3XTgUrfPtVXp09tg7reGKHwrZlhGwh9xEmU1rUgc3vWDF10l5KEcyN4OvkP4OHlM/s900/220509_boat_J_A6089-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qQOT-80S16V7CVkLygyJ9kD021U7HuldrIPw0cQ-zwsqUsHLoPOAgY6bCXA7m4BP3Oe8F6GoL01PvJUtYx8m8EPC9bSChrU3ds7rsSaj7fV1d6AjUG2ktyBB3XTgUrfPtVXp09tg7reGKHwrZlhGwh9xEmU1rUgc3vWDF10l5KEcyN4OvkP4OHlM/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6089-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Tern - <i>Sterna hirundo<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwDvbKkyvbiBLtxKROH8GWjta3hz8HHS-qqgu56O7_JqoOBBREdHVZXgCsSAMr9OwHe4mRW7GEZU2Pc4csH8SRH13c2b3nHUxe0jMG3LDGl3IOHNLfEatjzmLiLEWmaAW9TQ0pZIWRVJ4HP5dokK0a_MSyhMv7CtZ5IDtlUaojVNH5w7rBx9cfVZo/s900/220509_boat_J_A6150-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwDvbKkyvbiBLtxKROH8GWjta3hz8HHS-qqgu56O7_JqoOBBREdHVZXgCsSAMr9OwHe4mRW7GEZU2Pc4csH8SRH13c2b3nHUxe0jMG3LDGl3IOHNLfEatjzmLiLEWmaAW9TQ0pZIWRVJ4HP5dokK0a_MSyhMv7CtZ5IDtlUaojVNH5w7rBx9cfVZo/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6150-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern - <i>Chlidonias leucopterus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZhrSjWCMz4RmULUDw_nSfCwZngmdCvKnVxcTRkOxmzeHzy3Pe8jgrO_RpI02rpvcoE17YcUyyXmivytE8EZGp18LE4HN0UK0dBLCF407hmb9bpHOcqhBo2Vs440cpGjO0bGQFY9r6ylOw0GlIGuVjt1PhUekW-VvpyJDi5KwW9GUYgSmojfCI8lV/s900/220509_boat_J_A6153-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZhrSjWCMz4RmULUDw_nSfCwZngmdCvKnVxcTRkOxmzeHzy3Pe8jgrO_RpI02rpvcoE17YcUyyXmivytE8EZGp18LE4HN0UK0dBLCF407hmb9bpHOcqhBo2Vs440cpGjO0bGQFY9r6ylOw0GlIGuVjt1PhUekW-VvpyJDi5KwW9GUYgSmojfCI8lV/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6153-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern - <i>Chlidonias leucopterus<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1f8RtXncGzH8ewRUPfGm4u9cphiaNab1LRyTk6z5dOUG93Sn73rBFzZOgYHIRyCggEmzO5GzD47_lVTtxyNral_PmxuYd3PZrahNQBIVamPMQ9BwlOGI1Xq8JfacZrgruXfVWgalCjhgX1-o5EwHvvy1m614-mRCGQBecR9cm7GOaDogzSqGAFd7/s900/w220509_boat_J_A6209-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1f8RtXncGzH8ewRUPfGm4u9cphiaNab1LRyTk6z5dOUG93Sn73rBFzZOgYHIRyCggEmzO5GzD47_lVTtxyNral_PmxuYd3PZrahNQBIVamPMQ9BwlOGI1Xq8JfacZrgruXfVWgalCjhgX1-o5EwHvvy1m614-mRCGQBecR9cm7GOaDogzSqGAFd7/w640-h426/w220509_boat_J_A6209-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern - <i>Chlidonias leucopterus (mostly) - note <b>Tuna</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gadYw-wDtI5tqdiFBr1qeeYf4SmRJ78HhXQchabTqFhq3CkCagAid05V8DrCcbciFuHPunDGrSRcz9MwldRE6WTk5nKT1cM8CwJE5Urr7zaFxjwB5jcbENILfp4_3TjckG2Rz_vVI4IPYgOKoA07vSGS0odsCf33295h7H5Nimz_6HvHetkpjAPz/s900/220509_boat_J_A6254-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gadYw-wDtI5tqdiFBr1qeeYf4SmRJ78HhXQchabTqFhq3CkCagAid05V8DrCcbciFuHPunDGrSRcz9MwldRE6WTk5nKT1cM8CwJE5Urr7zaFxjwB5jcbENILfp4_3TjckG2Rz_vVI4IPYgOKoA07vSGS0odsCf33295h7H5Nimz_6HvHetkpjAPz/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6254-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern - <i>Chlidonias leucopterus (mostly)<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0T8kur8x2GidiaeSRRv6oMSkJgTeZNqkAUlCGXn3yiC0PT_jv__b7mCRLL3X8Qyy9xKjoIGR1WhQrmfOI0oJgBo0zjPWHiao6xBaAEy4GYU3u4HZnLRyo1VGejmJc8f0ZLtseV6J2-kdSuSTMSdkv0HQ9r-oX913We0CH8ZehGtf4ShwC81ONpc3/s900/220509_boat_J_A6390-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0T8kur8x2GidiaeSRRv6oMSkJgTeZNqkAUlCGXn3yiC0PT_jv__b7mCRLL3X8Qyy9xKjoIGR1WhQrmfOI0oJgBo0zjPWHiao6xBaAEy4GYU3u4HZnLRyo1VGejmJc8f0ZLtseV6J2-kdSuSTMSdkv0HQ9r-oX913We0CH8ZehGtf4ShwC81ONpc3/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6390-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Tern - <i>Sternula albifrons</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACfkASYrSalCHPID5iBfIXqrrA4O2ohJC43uJUl6p-iBs_dWhVTuvH2BBiShabqBqcjtLCnx6mEnpm9Dfgqrejq-42wHvlo262bMhZ4t2a1Mit3N1a-FJokMiZKC8wFL-AZ-StIinTlCt9ob4IlJ3VO1lm8Ho8iiCvOQiS7C6s43MU6UFXXzOYuMz/s900/220509_boat_J_A6459-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACfkASYrSalCHPID5iBfIXqrrA4O2ohJC43uJUl6p-iBs_dWhVTuvH2BBiShabqBqcjtLCnx6mEnpm9Dfgqrejq-42wHvlo262bMhZ4t2a1Mit3N1a-FJokMiZKC8wFL-AZ-StIinTlCt9ob4IlJ3VO1lm8Ho8iiCvOQiS7C6s43MU6UFXXzOYuMz/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6459-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greater Crested Tern - <i>Thalasseus bergi</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYs5UKOb9Tvs_N04xnmQS6D0o_Blz1nAZwZXdG3LWNmi9y-m0magPesOQ3hM4e8AD35DCxLg9tZWycIc9z6NxMVZhGmmlyBMGSG2f3kJZuyCdMGD_0uibQN5F22Ih548-dKrOupHkhFOsulzcQnvRS775s0Wxhae78XVFTzQDBIEtYqf-qhBpggMQ/s900/220509_boat_J_A6474-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYs5UKOb9Tvs_N04xnmQS6D0o_Blz1nAZwZXdG3LWNmi9y-m0magPesOQ3hM4e8AD35DCxLg9tZWycIc9z6NxMVZhGmmlyBMGSG2f3kJZuyCdMGD_0uibQN5F22Ih548-dKrOupHkhFOsulzcQnvRS775s0Wxhae78XVFTzQDBIEtYqf-qhBpggMQ/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6474-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greater Crested Tern - <span style="font-style: italic;">Thalasseus bergi<br /></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Later on, the weather cleared up, but the terns continued to pass us....</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfVOp4uM5krfC6HzVPiOzrcxgZJKVV4hmTOw7HW0UjcVLbPGXsKQLDEdoiXeU6QAv-IyzLreMQgl_qbAlaAlEUmiYzZa4qRTvL-X5rC3tMi48JOXNrzrBTB2ABThj9FmIRJfaMiUBL0qQx72iD9r8iGtTAndGRLe7JekahrEuhChgHFYl4iw5Fz6n/s900/220509_boat_J_A6758-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfVOp4uM5krfC6HzVPiOzrcxgZJKVV4hmTOw7HW0UjcVLbPGXsKQLDEdoiXeU6QAv-IyzLreMQgl_qbAlaAlEUmiYzZa4qRTvL-X5rC3tMi48JOXNrzrBTB2ABThj9FmIRJfaMiUBL0qQx72iD9r8iGtTAndGRLe7JekahrEuhChgHFYl4iw5Fz6n/w640-h426/220509_boat_J_A6758-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged Tern - <i>Chlidonias leucopterus (mostly)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgZIUAob_NRT2nrSMvTAVje5hfWu1z9qqHlsaOaEWqCXMTId2JbGhDpiwbTcBYLgnlysxatPO5S6V3SC7fKiesjEeRzTXT8JH6I5rxSN0nzL5UOg4VL6k_0POV41xIYecj49la4COMMW5bzz0MLXpQ3oHs2TBSxBnUS2vTLKRhQbPnAlZSQLVSOh1F/s900/c220509_boat_J_A6678-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgZIUAob_NRT2nrSMvTAVje5hfWu1z9qqHlsaOaEWqCXMTId2JbGhDpiwbTcBYLgnlysxatPO5S6V3SC7fKiesjEeRzTXT8JH6I5rxSN0nzL5UOg4VL6k_0POV41xIYecj49la4COMMW5bzz0MLXpQ3oHs2TBSxBnUS2vTLKRhQbPnAlZSQLVSOh1F/w640-h426/c220509_boat_J_A6678-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Tern - <i>Sterna hirundo (mostly)</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">And home in time for tea !</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com67PJP4645+Q222.1069475 114.20751921.597562785215672 113.65820259375 22.616332214784329 114.75683540625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888150200000284242.post-42464462437176484322022-04-25T15:24:00.001+08:002022-04-25T15:24:48.419+08:0025th April 2022 - waterbirds on the Deep Bay tideline, Hong Kong<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfBQwxWhXsqpwyAbvQX9EuJg0kTgrjKvrSMGwmJjanr0uA_2zVGS7741pRG4Aghr3TA4r8JXZcAW980gF31TJcvTfTZuKQkUfzGOdNcBOGlC4Byt31dIBSHwoeWpgkkzti0ZqBjNqajpXBA9FSI5K_yd815Q8ewM3A7eihloAYiuA2epTM6oCMiL0/s801/MPbw_220425_9120066-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="601" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfBQwxWhXsqpwyAbvQX9EuJg0kTgrjKvrSMGwmJjanr0uA_2zVGS7741pRG4Aghr3TA4r8JXZcAW980gF31TJcvTfTZuKQkUfzGOdNcBOGlC4Byt31dIBSHwoeWpgkkzti0ZqBjNqajpXBA9FSI5K_yd815Q8ewM3A7eihloAYiuA2epTM6oCMiL0/s600/MPbw_220425_9120066-01.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese Egret - <span style="font-style: italic;">Egretta eulophotes</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfRXvK8XoxLvZTigUBlJ61W5O4tVvr0WvXCcd50xDy6I006G7H2f7eOVHQmlT-wIQMknvmDLzgFV1nIwBx5FMcEtX_7ArSrJdCMv7Sbjjeg07BLuMF-bXbPDg0DA_-QOTs0mvGr8N2vvtqgyRXz38HcmoLRov_3Zm1aj1dmntzLaVHxPn7GE5NYNm/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1602-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfRXvK8XoxLvZTigUBlJ61W5O4tVvr0WvXCcd50xDy6I006G7H2f7eOVHQmlT-wIQMknvmDLzgFV1nIwBx5FMcEtX_7ArSrJdCMv7Sbjjeg07BLuMF-bXbPDg0DA_-QOTs0mvGr8N2vvtqgyRXz38HcmoLRov_3Zm1aj1dmntzLaVHxPn7GE5NYNm/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1602-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whimbrel - <i>Numenius phaeopus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh96hHNsIZWKmVt9kU-JJ_KispnCG898nGzMJQlcZcEV-0IEG9b0yRS0EfIigfuA20muxSXsbmAw-wLLtq8HTUK32xsql7421k3XB0boDUtMUuAv3K_W1LzOtEAPL7_MrOzColqKWA3ABjjHTCSGmUJ_DL1qgJgn0qkBsTxHlY6CvlL_TSH9dDd5UDY/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1659-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh96hHNsIZWKmVt9kU-JJ_KispnCG898nGzMJQlcZcEV-0IEG9b0yRS0EfIigfuA20muxSXsbmAw-wLLtq8HTUK32xsql7421k3XB0boDUtMUuAv3K_W1LzOtEAPL7_MrOzColqKWA3ABjjHTCSGmUJ_DL1qgJgn0qkBsTxHlY6CvlL_TSH9dDd5UDY/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1659-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese Pond Herons - <i>Ardeola bacchus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1P66XXlKRcG51cClROjm9rxVj4jyf4Ok69o0c98LoDtvMNtdTDqgihB3h2DwBihHobHXLeZuVO60MahPjLAW3H0zwd4xs-ZqlsdTRCYaDqe4culSQ1pahiuQC-FfcAeuNHquA_VhLTYm4WPyS5InlbWBL6Eq56GbNnepuVRl6EHsQ1r0GzIrqtIfs/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1712-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1P66XXlKRcG51cClROjm9rxVj4jyf4Ok69o0c98LoDtvMNtdTDqgihB3h2DwBihHobHXLeZuVO60MahPjLAW3H0zwd4xs-ZqlsdTRCYaDqe4culSQ1pahiuQC-FfcAeuNHquA_VhLTYm4WPyS5InlbWBL6Eq56GbNnepuVRl6EHsQ1r0GzIrqtIfs/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1712-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whimbrel - <i>Numenius phaeopus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKMbvLyvpZl-vkvWw82kdxwrUyAExGQUdnhZOCrFH8oTnEwCPFOjQkzhA5z2RU4fe2qhfPHOJ5JiuxleEVvEt6TZxJA3QOOCDDvCOvU-NMiWLck5r65cKlzCmd_SvZKK2Zb3v4du5h8uIb4PdFXVZEIQJCLSxBuTajCaTKXi9lmYGq9cF_c7xET-c/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1736-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKMbvLyvpZl-vkvWw82kdxwrUyAExGQUdnhZOCrFH8oTnEwCPFOjQkzhA5z2RU4fe2qhfPHOJ5JiuxleEVvEt6TZxJA3QOOCDDvCOvU-NMiWLck5r65cKlzCmd_SvZKK2Zb3v4du5h8uIb4PdFXVZEIQJCLSxBuTajCaTKXi9lmYGq9cF_c7xET-c/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1736-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Redshank -<i>Tringa totanus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-d7fvyeL4of6g7IUTuLIwzIot0C4H7ls3cbmE_jWLNCCBr2KOlfhCF2xnHTrjRu4NOtn-nMMlDxfhxWozTxVzhO0nkSSnCI6qpof5fvWeCxP9fWOoHRhzIoOVsYwa7rqCSCTqVttjNujgeAcJXYiPMcdhjXD5kcEf0F2W3ZOCIKDOSyuzw2Hm5wA6/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1923-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-d7fvyeL4of6g7IUTuLIwzIot0C4H7ls3cbmE_jWLNCCBr2KOlfhCF2xnHTrjRu4NOtn-nMMlDxfhxWozTxVzhO0nkSSnCI6qpof5fvWeCxP9fWOoHRhzIoOVsYwa7rqCSCTqVttjNujgeAcJXYiPMcdhjXD5kcEf0F2W3ZOCIKDOSyuzw2Hm5wA6/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1923-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese Egret - <i>Egretta eulophotes</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbsTMmYc4FFMWtRJhJGqw7VAjTskMch2MLpeFJQli6xqNXQ6d_kENV01y3OfXVfi9C2W_e293wTAvAfoPtcsVIST-7nd56Fc-lkUyYCpDoCp28PbKpo_kHk8jfuzRqfa2tE9hDRJE5ZhrCGkI8Vs_pmyBI_wuTQVSzh9ntg687_yTEsw-spHgW0f7j/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1772-01.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbsTMmYc4FFMWtRJhJGqw7VAjTskMch2MLpeFJQli6xqNXQ6d_kENV01y3OfXVfi9C2W_e293wTAvAfoPtcsVIST-7nd56Fc-lkUyYCpDoCp28PbKpo_kHk8jfuzRqfa2tE9hDRJE5ZhrCGkI8Vs_pmyBI_wuTQVSzh9ntg687_yTEsw-spHgW0f7j/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1772-01.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDelPp2HWgE60d7jBVsZbMWDyv2q4Qry5oRSt9gV3rSjO7uthmvKkzInN0WHhu9d0a1h5kmsrnwbPuH12VrAughKNMw7f8PtE5lSC6OFhUilSg1DUX8aG5Bwb2a3MGj7a82JId3Yl8yvPeMGo3PVZM2yO9yQraHieP3a9GAFhiYr3DXyY0Sk38pA1R/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1772-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDelPp2HWgE60d7jBVsZbMWDyv2q4Qry5oRSt9gV3rSjO7uthmvKkzInN0WHhu9d0a1h5kmsrnwbPuH12VrAughKNMw7f8PtE5lSC6OFhUilSg1DUX8aG5Bwb2a3MGj7a82JId3Yl8yvPeMGo3PVZM2yO9yQraHieP3a9GAFhiYr3DXyY0Sk38pA1R/w640-h426/MPbw_220425_J_A1772-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese Egret - <i>Egretta eulophotes</i></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Tq2DjXiJzZ0wsPMJRSbg5JMOzfBl8LbQq7iBTg9lMOZOEGwccorh5NahCyohpKbERXbo0rsiFzQ-bH6hKeg9q15CjZupN2GkyKZmGAf0iP2T3ObZP7Jl3kR1a7MWcApl4vDPa2gLbAjZcOfJne-AG-xHWNm_NIIeE9HQLb6T2SPGFU2PILUEffFg/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1779-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Tq2DjXiJzZ0wsPMJRSbg5JMOzfBl8LbQq7iBTg9lMOZOEGwccorh5NahCyohpKbERXbo0rsiFzQ-bH6hKeg9q15CjZupN2GkyKZmGAf0iP2T3ObZP7Jl3kR1a7MWcApl4vDPa2gLbAjZcOfJne-AG-xHWNm_NIIeE9HQLb6T2SPGFU2PILUEffFg/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1779-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eastern Cattle Egrets - <i>Bulbulcus coromandus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjytfUn4KtR8xQdmvq4GurEIg5H_kQQcOsYc8xBdwiH_YpFza_Nb9OsdAqAEOP6bxLnaDEyqc_OWRmtoaKr_5xiodJk-PbaFyJaV8YO5creMUJnygXgUi4-1B_0dPW2nH4DWD6HD78299M42Se3hNRySJzNuW2Ac_sY68bSRLwDnlc-Nl7UYmfwUAMW/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1797-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjytfUn4KtR8xQdmvq4GurEIg5H_kQQcOsYc8xBdwiH_YpFza_Nb9OsdAqAEOP6bxLnaDEyqc_OWRmtoaKr_5xiodJk-PbaFyJaV8YO5creMUJnygXgUi4-1B_0dPW2nH4DWD6HD78299M42Se3hNRySJzNuW2Ac_sY68bSRLwDnlc-Nl7UYmfwUAMW/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1797-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greater Sand Plover - <i>Charadrius leschenaultii</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1dxj-mQcaHFDYfteAbgokX9OsViojQwvlGvjb6FxwmeoKZQKcxXb_f6sb4blVE0H4VF3b-rQGw49woxAVxYhSS8WIws1xyxkkpxSUrT8yICr5W4s6aC4IFC1Q-ngfqZGf3tC5at86v-pEmtiHLEtzxIC9zs-mjur_9ZJAoAKDmh6VtteTVf-Wk9G/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1864-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1dxj-mQcaHFDYfteAbgokX9OsViojQwvlGvjb6FxwmeoKZQKcxXb_f6sb4blVE0H4VF3b-rQGw49woxAVxYhSS8WIws1xyxkkpxSUrT8yICr5W4s6aC4IFC1Q-ngfqZGf3tC5at86v-pEmtiHLEtzxIC9zs-mjur_9ZJAoAKDmh6VtteTVf-Wk9G/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1864-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terek Sandpiper - <i>Xenus cinereus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6hn1AjLDzUUyBcvRlC1YldA0Mo9CmgVJrIUm0tsExJ3Rto3WoVjBBKpwyhri2wBpywq9TksoneMZ-omrprFCM4WACXHwH_e0n4ta0Vn9JbsNc6lnug4cH2H_S3u6usL3HOTSF-Dnd60EpukKH2McDj-NEeZ6Jg9xJWq-vzQHJ5bqPyTO9Zkrh7vZ/s801/MPbw_220425_J_A1867-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="601" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6hn1AjLDzUUyBcvRlC1YldA0Mo9CmgVJrIUm0tsExJ3Rto3WoVjBBKpwyhri2wBpywq9TksoneMZ-omrprFCM4WACXHwH_e0n4ta0Vn9JbsNc6lnug4cH2H_S3u6usL3HOTSF-Dnd60EpukKH2McDj-NEeZ6Jg9xJWq-vzQHJ5bqPyTO9Zkrh7vZ/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1867-01.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - <span style="font-style: italic;">Calidris acuminata</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">a mystery-flagged stint, possibly banded in Kamchatka -</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1kOEn1GF3vQC4yPMS06pa9G-03sUwjS_8DA-OWNlWEj65nVurmZxQCxclI5GcmCESgVR4xMCPavkPnZd1WFc11E9AqqMn9D7wnracU-2_KDLiyxZQtEsRcBd2f_JB2jeJfotkhB0CKaUvg0lGOOoBuKASkNw0p9K8PGiWY_TqjNJVZbJb55d-T9CG/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1899-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1kOEn1GF3vQC4yPMS06pa9G-03sUwjS_8DA-OWNlWEj65nVurmZxQCxclI5GcmCESgVR4xMCPavkPnZd1WFc11E9AqqMn9D7wnracU-2_KDLiyxZQtEsRcBd2f_JB2jeJfotkhB0CKaUvg0lGOOoBuKASkNw0p9K8PGiWY_TqjNJVZbJb55d-T9CG/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1899-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Stint - <i>Calidris ruficollis</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7R1e2K6lwYgqdVnpNrrRcwo2IVjM2R_Jvwp9Vt4wSCnntV2uWrF5Ih69xU_nqS17lNSn2oaUSHoLj57t5vQlADvY2bVxbu1De6JSXO-kxf6X6QHxp6k_Z9HZfDd-CJGFF-9gyLjknyC5snIOEYGU7oghedqXesrB1F8zugRtEErC-ZKsnFB72ywhX/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1907-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7R1e2K6lwYgqdVnpNrrRcwo2IVjM2R_Jvwp9Vt4wSCnntV2uWrF5Ih69xU_nqS17lNSn2oaUSHoLj57t5vQlADvY2bVxbu1De6JSXO-kxf6X6QHxp6k_Z9HZfDd-CJGFF-9gyLjknyC5snIOEYGU7oghedqXesrB1F8zugRtEErC-ZKsnFB72ywhX/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1907-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black-faced Spoonbill - <i>Platalea minor</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BIV4HI7mXLMvaQtFhzFnbDFUyESSlhomgo-p6_fU8cau6Mcu2nbIMWoyhEgbQiVMYTmzBh7RvTD--kyW6BfTrBFxzk2B-MU25ZHRqlkimDslJTo6Tt3f1kco-8yML72_LpMViH-k2D-FiKVKBdQpA7g_0AFyNLh4hrO_tlcDnTUCdxjkXRIkJS_p/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1930-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BIV4HI7mXLMvaQtFhzFnbDFUyESSlhomgo-p6_fU8cau6Mcu2nbIMWoyhEgbQiVMYTmzBh7RvTD--kyW6BfTrBFxzk2B-MU25ZHRqlkimDslJTo6Tt3f1kco-8yML72_LpMViH-k2D-FiKVKBdQpA7g_0AFyNLh4hrO_tlcDnTUCdxjkXRIkJS_p/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1930-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black-faced Spoonbills - <i>Platalea minor</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMFU2zauaQNNn06IosXGYJ_5OQ16zi37ZFIpz93XR1raIY4QN8crPioAeaCWepgtzz8s0pBzFeNQCT6i_8dHPcp3tW9s7sy-e-9oZu2Rt2K7LDtqwIRwcSNCX0j6IjjCNRYnhSzh8h6fGc8pHip1aHCVnE8OO-BwWD4T71qury4Jlt-Etb5aUeoEVT/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1935-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMFU2zauaQNNn06IosXGYJ_5OQ16zi37ZFIpz93XR1raIY4QN8crPioAeaCWepgtzz8s0pBzFeNQCT6i_8dHPcp3tW9s7sy-e-9oZu2Rt2K7LDtqwIRwcSNCX0j6IjjCNRYnhSzh8h6fGc8pHip1aHCVnE8OO-BwWD4T71qury4Jlt-Etb5aUeoEVT/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1935-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black-faced Spoonbills - <i>Platalea minor</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh939R3mH0LbMIOn8EMKbMnGBz1w52Tz43tJ_kBSL2gIxZZo8aJWQmIy-FSISo1jR6dHnh3ThQ8phM5wpMkwIy3pj2OQuNPnenPpLtf4qvu_1SISB6nausRFwfCpnB7TbLX7nnePS_H-5285jYiAQ0V3zl5E3oY0vwcxzLavt-fNLrtCEyiBU5MyKaX/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A1953-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh939R3mH0LbMIOn8EMKbMnGBz1w52Tz43tJ_kBSL2gIxZZo8aJWQmIy-FSISo1jR6dHnh3ThQ8phM5wpMkwIy3pj2OQuNPnenPpLtf4qvu_1SISB6nausRFwfCpnB7TbLX7nnePS_H-5285jYiAQ0V3zl5E3oY0vwcxzLavt-fNLrtCEyiBU5MyKaX/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A1953-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gull-billed Tern - <i>Geochelidon nilotica</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim27rpG369ehHtK4048T4Jts43YLYgrcUOBqruCafEtQlIocJTb1n8cB2DI7VzNZY3x2tvu11bpGrXvP0tmCu9-Up_bl9LvQTIJfdLzCyWcsIdGovX6vKLabb4eydesCuJvoO1OOExhG8wa4jjAYR0cgVkUnJzQjKUnP9tsNZWdGz3Nz1W0d1H7UZj/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A2014-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim27rpG369ehHtK4048T4Jts43YLYgrcUOBqruCafEtQlIocJTb1n8cB2DI7VzNZY3x2tvu11bpGrXvP0tmCu9-Up_bl9LvQTIJfdLzCyWcsIdGovX6vKLabb4eydesCuJvoO1OOExhG8wa4jjAYR0cgVkUnJzQjKUnP9tsNZWdGz3Nz1W0d1H7UZj/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A2014-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greater Sand Plover - <i>Charadrius leschenaultii</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4M0MJVkT6w8iCx3a_7jV1_LHn2GC2MSj_FmCgcIzv6WhPGp0ytZUAUmsH0a5u6NgEQ_yMIR1SQtG3ma8AeNLOKUwDDpzDK6c-2HnhKQYOReV9WzW8iJg74TXomplND6uHwDfqKvsqohcryImpknFtHpGxLSmjTalMJfILPS2so-mK8fwML1WTUcm/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A2039-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4M0MJVkT6w8iCx3a_7jV1_LHn2GC2MSj_FmCgcIzv6WhPGp0ytZUAUmsH0a5u6NgEQ_yMIR1SQtG3ma8AeNLOKUwDDpzDK6c-2HnhKQYOReV9WzW8iJg74TXomplND6uHwDfqKvsqohcryImpknFtHpGxLSmjTalMJfILPS2so-mK8fwML1WTUcm/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A2039-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grey-tailed Tattler - <span style="font-style: italic;">Tringa brevipes</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">...and last but not least</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMzGpF-6S_m9x1dKyhdNERzqV7mR157vaXkSfvb4s8i07jwv9H0a4ttpb57u8uHp38tQVsurQ43Cn8bs5L7jLlVZ-fTEf3InmOIfVdVelh5-A_TvUFL3-gUdKgNkpKfMIq1dFIF-F9knwFb2OHz1KXjbWsPRwUKysAgeqJ10Hm8gkVVDRXQhQm4qCx/s900/MPbw_220425_J_A2043-01.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMzGpF-6S_m9x1dKyhdNERzqV7mR157vaXkSfvb4s8i07jwv9H0a4ttpb57u8uHp38tQVsurQ43Cn8bs5L7jLlVZ-fTEf3InmOIfVdVelh5-A_TvUFL3-gUdKgNkpKfMIq1dFIF-F9knwFb2OHz1KXjbWsPRwUKysAgeqJ10Hm8gkVVDRXQhQm4qCx/s600/MPbw_220425_J_A2043-01.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-necked Stint - <span style="font-style: italic;">Calidris ruficollis</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">All viewed and photographed this morning from the Northern Floating Hide, Mai Po Nature Reserve, Hong Kong</div></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2