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Blackbird......
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Red-billed Starling "Action Shot!"
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Rufous-tailed Robin......
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Don't you just wish you could own a pair of shorts like these....
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1st Winter Spotted Dove.......
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There's a stream of great stuff coming in, so congratulations and keep em coming. Some uncommon visitors too, like the pale thrush and especially the red-breasted flycatcher. I'm a bit confused about this one, as some people seem to classify it as a variety of the red-throated while others give it separate species status. I've seen one like this in Tai Peng with the characteristic while patches in the outer tail feather, but no idea which kind.

That shot of the bedraggled thrush has got to be a prize winner


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Hi Zep...... yes the Red-breasted Flycatcher is quite special.
However, now have either a Red-throated Flycatcher in breeding plumage which is a rarity in HK, or a Red-breasted Flycatcher in breeding plumage which would be the first ever sighting of one in HK. Anyway have submitted loads of pics to HKBWS and am waiting on a conclusion.
If you haven't seen one, you are quite welcome to pop up and photograph it.... it is fairly regular.
In the meantime... a Chinese Bulbul....
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There's no way you would ever get an adult male red-breasted flycatcher here. It's never ever been seen in Hong Kong before never mind photographed.


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hmmmmm you'd think....... but they're working it out... there are 2-3 birds here and I have heard both the calls in my garden of the Red-breasted and the Red-throated. Check out the soundbytes & Neils video with audio in HKBWS. The soundbyte is a very brittle recording, but Neils is very true.

You might also say the same about the Chinese Flycatcher.... but there was one here 3 days ago..... 99% sure.... the other 1%... it might have been the Tickells Blue, the Hill Blue, or the Blue-throated........ none of which have been seen in hk either... so go figure


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Images not so good of this Pale Thrush as were taken at 06:55 with 13-20's ISO 1250....
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Well Zep seems the unlikely does occur sometimes. First adult male sighting for HK.
Set of photos of adult male Red-Breasted Flycatcher taken 06/12/2010 on Lamma Island.... full set of Photos, video & sound bytes at this link........ http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/redirect.php?tid=12824&goto=lastpost#lastpost
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Well well well - one for the record books! Trebles all round. I imagine the HKBWS twitchers will be beating a path to your door


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zep {L_WROTE}:
Well well well - one for the record books! Trebles all round. I imagine the HKBWS twitchers will be beating a path to your door


Yes.... is quite a find.

The twitchers........ don't think I have too worry too much about them......
......apart from a few hard core, most of them would have difficulty dealing with the adventure of it all...........

..............first they will need to iron their designer camouflage kits and pack their photo expedition gear in time to get the early ferry...... slurp down a Purple Cow frozen yogurt and coffee combo......, sail the roaring seas round the Cape of Pak Kok....., walk the terminal plank......, hang around waiting for a taxi that will never turn up....., dodge the kamikaze VV's......, have an early morning pint with the locals at the Island Bar....., chat with Zep about any great potential local birding spots for rare and unknown birds ....., get expert photo advice from Bob Davis......., while away a few minutes with L-G about the glories of Lamma....., navigate their way through Main Street......., don their facemasks to dampen our local scents..............., barge their way through the mindless meandering tourist flocks and window shoppers........, haggle with Lamma Fun Day ticket touts......, scoff their "fishballs on a stick"....., fight off the triads....., strategically distribute "Little Red envelopes"....., battle the drug lords........, grapple with our hooligans & graffitists...., manouevre past our buskers......, donate to LAWC........, accommodate our flower sellers....., inch past Bookmans rabid pack of dogs....., tiptoe through our dog sh*t minefield...., pay the temple keeper........, traverse our mosquito infested swamps........, leap across our open sewage system......., sneak past our natives............, smoke a spliff..........., get harangued by "Chicken Linda".........., climb my mountain........, crawl through undergrowth....., slither past the snakes....., stay upwind of the wild boar pack..........., scale my fence ringed garden......, placate my savage dogs....
..........all the time carrying their 40kg of telephoto lenses and wearing their weekend warrior grins......, just to buy a ticket for next years Red-breasted Flycatcher follow-up tour, coz the birds didn't make it for the afternoon matinee yesterday..... they may have already moved on to warmer climes.

Don't think I have to worry about them too much.
Although they will be able to buy a ticket for this lady's bathing performance if they get here by 07:30 .....

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That's great news and just a fantastic story overall, teasing quite a number of people, including myself... I like it a lot!

Instant Lamma-zine material for the home page, today's story!

Can we get more like this from the official Court Wildlife Photographer.

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More like this ?......... the bird or the story?
If bird... how about this Daurian Redstart from today.....
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More birds AND more stories! We're greedy for your talents...

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Hmmmm.... photos I have 000's......, stories a little thin on the ground.
Male Grey-backed Thrush......
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Pale Thrush....
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Female Red-flanked Bluetail.....
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10/12/2010
Adult male
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After an absence of a few days this adult male Red-breasted Flycatcher returned to bathe..... but no calls this time.
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