After my trip, I didn’t really have much time to go out birding, so for the past month or so I have just been out three times, and I was really missing out on some great autumn migrants!
On a visit to Lai Chi Kok park for Hong Kong’s first record of the black chinned fruit dove, I failed but there were many other common local birds to keep us entertained, such as japanese tit, swinhoe’s white eyes, red whiskered and light vented bulbuls, asian koels and oriental magpie robin.
Japanese Tit
Red whiskered bulbul
Asian Koel
As I was leaving, by the pond next to the MTR station I got a common kingfisher.
Common Kingfisher
Over at Ho Man Tin, migration is in full swing, and during my one and only visit, I counted three female or juvenile males yellow rumped flycatchers. These skittish little flycatchers are one of the first migrants that come through in autumn, usually in the end of august.
Yellow rumped flycatcher – regular migrant but hard for photos as usual
Other interesting migrants include a of warbler species, though I could see the underside, so I could not identify it properly before it disappear, though it was likely that it was an artic warbler.
warbler sp.
The last place I visited was Tai Sang Wai early on in the month, and here I had gotten my first trio of great cormorants, a new arrival from the north, though I only had a bad record shot.
Great cormorant – first for this season!
We also got a few black winged stilts flying over and a pied kingfisher fishing in the pond and doing the classic hovering move.
Black winged stilt – flyover
Pied kingfisher
Plain prinias were quite abundant, with a few by the footpath being really confiding and I could approach it to within a few meters! I also got the privilege to see a common kingfisher diving into the water.
Plain Prinia
Common Kingfisher
We had a oriental magpie, which is getting rarer and rarer nowadays.
Black Kite
Oriental Magpie
Other birds in the area include white wagtail, little grebes and a black drongo.
White Wagtail
Little Grebe
Black Drongo
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