Nice one Kevin....especially getting so many in focus.
Have seen several flocks of these around... most notably over at Lo So Shing.
We seem to have an inordinate number of Chinese Bulbuls on Lamma these days.

A shot of the male Fork-tailed Sunbird from the same day as the female shot... although both visit the garden several times a day... will try & get shots in not such glaring sunlight...

As requested - pale thrush. I've seen more of these in the last month than in the previous 5 years. By the time this one arrived at the pond the light was already fading fast, so the overall impression is one of dull grey-brown, but here they are for what they are worth:

Nothing wrong with these photos Zep..... you were lucky.... since then the Pale Thrush has only been in fleetingly.
Had a Verditer Flycatcher hanging round the garden the a last couple of days,,,, but unfortunately no photos.

Considering how much trash we have piled up conspicuously around Lamma, it is surprising we are not inundated with more scavenger birds.
There are about half a dozen of these Jungle Crows around the windmill... where there is seemingly very little for them to feed on.......... or perhaps as is a Lamma "tourist attraction", they are just waiting for the trash to arrive along with the tourist hordes...

Collared Crow.....

Scaly Thrush....
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Wow.... you're very brave to get so close.
Is a unique but often seen trio & easily identified... from left to right...
Big-bellied Squatter, Black Spotter & Red Snoozer.

Coincidentally I was up there by the People Allotment....., seems I don't have your spotting skills though... I only saw..
Chinese Bulbuls
Red-whiskered Bulbuls
Sooty-headed Bulbuls
Red-billed Starlings
Blackbird
Crested Mynah
Black-collared Starling
and I think I now know where the sweetest bird on Lamma nests

Last week Neil was able to photograph..
Black-tailed Hawfinch (Yellow Grosbeak)

And a juvenile Brown Shrike..

I don't think there were any sweet birds near the People's Allotment this morning, only a disheveled albinistic tousle-tufted chat. I do know that all women in two buildings were heartily cinching down their bathrobes in fear of that digiscope this morning!

Nice hawfinch, by the way! I have yet to see one. Professor Smith makes too much noise around the garden and scares them all away.

Nancy, many thanks for a truly unusual and memorable Wildlife Photo of the Day.
And thanks to Guy for identifying this most curious trio. See home page.

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What is the bird that we hear over the summer that sounds (to me at least) like a hooting monkey?

I've been told coucal, drongo, koel, and have looked up the calls - but none of the recordings I've found are right.
The best site I've found for calls is :

http://www.xeno-canto.org/asia/recording.php?XC=31952

Must be a coucal. Very beautiful, very large black bird with rust-colored wings; related to the cuckoos, if I recall correctly. You often see them on low branches in the forest or sometimes out in the open.

Koel makes a two-note call: ko-el, ko-el, ko-el
Each ko-el is higher and higher pitched until he can't make a higher sound, quits, rests, and then starts over. It is funny to listen to two males trying to out-falsetto each other.

I can't remember how the drongo sounds but I have seen/heard them calling and recall that it is higher pitched.

You're probably correct.

This link is for a 'greater coucal' -I'd dismissed it because the first call is not what I'm looking for.
A longer listen shows the hooting similar to what we hear on Lamma in the background http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds/uploaded/AFEHYCAHZR/GreaterCoucal2VNEdwards.mp3

Not been too much interesting for a while...
However managed to get a shot of this male Narcissus Flycatcher.... seems almost impossible to get him before he goes to water.
Is also about a week later than last year... seems all the migrants are weather affected.... prevailing winds etc etc.

Great shot - a very uncommon bird, even harder to get a picture. Look forward to a shot of a blow-dried clean individual. While you are waiting for it to show up again, you might like to pass the time by making an origami narcissus flycatcher - plans available from papercraft central.

Will do what I can... & will see if they can origami up a Hwamei.... is a daily visitor.

Possibly one of the last of the 1st winter female Grey-backed Thrush still hanging around....