24 Mar 2019

Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)

Unsettled weather made unusual birds possible today, 24th March 2019.

Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)

A “scarce spring passage migrant” in Hong Kong, so it was a pleasant surprise two find two hunting around the big trees beside the Police Post opposite the car park at Mai Po Nature Reserve.

Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)

Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)

Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)

Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)

Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)

The light was pretty awful, but if conditions had been clearer, then maybe they wouldn’t have been so low and visible.

Thanks to Jamie Partridge for spotting them first !

1 comment:

  1. Amazing shots, John. I cannot imagine anything more difficult than swifts in flight - except hummingbirds maybe!

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