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Dark-sided Flycatcher - Muscicapa sibirica |
Po Toi Island is Hong Kong’s southernmost island, and a migration hotspot. Nine or ten birders/photographers, including ourselves, caught the 10:00 ferry from the Aberdeen promenade.
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Tin Hau Temple, Po Toi |
Migrant birds have limited pockets of habitat on Po Toi, and even fewer places to hide there since Typhoon “Mangkhut” in mid-September.
Areas of brown vegetation, hillside scrub killed off by the typhoon’s salt spray, could be seen everywhere above the shoreline along our ferry journey from Aberdeen.
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White-bellied Sea Eagles - Haliaeetus leucogaster |
On Stanley peninsula a pair of resident White-bellied Sea Eagles surveyed us as we passed.
Here are a few shots of some of the birds seen, as usual, some birds are seen by some birders and not others. A mid-week ferry gives only a three-hour window for birding.
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Red Turtle-Dove - Streptopelia tranquebarica |
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Black Drongo - Dicrurus macrocercus |
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Yellow-browed Warbler - Phylloscopus inornatus |
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Dark-sided Flycatcher - Muscicapa sibirica |
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Dark-sided Flycatcher - Muscicapa sibirica |
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(Asian) Brown Flycatcher - Muscicapa latirostris |
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(Asian) Brown Flycatcher - Muscicapa latirostris |
Bird of the Po Toi day was probably a Spectacled Warbler (Seicercus sp.) - photographed by someone else and not seen by yours truly at all !
Nice Sooty Flycatcher!
ReplyDeleteI like birds that sit still - flycatchers are perfect subjects !
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