I have been pretty busy lately, with little time to go birding around HK. Most of the time, I was just birding along my local patch to see what birds it could produce. On one of the few excursions that I went on this month, I found our first signs of spring migrants in the form of a few red necked stints in tai sang wai.
Red necked stint
Along with that, our wintering visitors were still hanging along, as there were a few little ringed and kentish plovers along with a few temminck's stints.
Little Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Temmink's Stint
Other common birds in the surrounding area of the fishpond includes a few red throated pipits, dusky warblers and white throated kingfishers.
Dusky Warbler
White Throated Kingfisher
Farther into the fishponds, other birds that I got were eurasian coots, common kingfisher, pied kingfishers, peregrine falcon, golden headed cisticola and eurasian kestrel.
Pied Kingfisher
Peregrine Falcon
Golden headed cisticola
Eurasian Kestrel
I also visited Tai Lam Country Park to try for the recently-showing white throated rock thrush and the rufous gorgeted flycatcher. I only got photos of the rufous gorgeted flycatcher, and I saw the rock thrush briefly flew past.
Rufous Gorgeted Flycatcher
Closer to home, the hopwoodi ashy drongo stayed on until just recently, on the last time I saw it, it gave me the best views since I found it. Other than that, I also got the usual ashy drongos and good views of daurian redstarts scarlet minivets, chestnut bulbuls and amur stonechats.
Hopwoodi Ashy Drongo - great views!
Ashy Drongo
Daurian Redstart - female
Scarlet Minivet
Amur Stonechat
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