lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 20 March 20014 - influx of small waders, falling numbers of large gulls

Heuglin's Gull 91
Mongolian Gull 3 ads
Vega Gull / hybrid type 1 ad
Blacxk-tailed Gull 7 (all 1/y)
Caspian Tern 43 (increase)

Curlew Sandpiper 1200 (didn't come onto the mudflats until tide was a long way down)
(No obvious Dunlin)
Greater Sand Plover 30 (minimum)
Terek Sandpiper 14
Red-necked Sting 80
Great Knot 2
Kentish Plover 25

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 20 March 2014 (cont)

* mudskipper collectors 3 (one coming within 10 metres of the new boardwalk hide, the others in front of HKBWS hide)
* mainland fishing-boat 1 (Hong Kong side, off new boardwalk hide)

Will AFCD pick up on this posting, or do I need to alert them in some other way?

lrichard

Mai Po (boardwalk except as indicated), 21 March 2014

Kentish Plover 1230 (big number for so late in the winter?)
Curlew Sandpiper 100s
Dunlin 4
Bar-tailed Godwit 2
Greater Sand Plover 74
Great Knot 21
Red Knot 1
Broad-billed Sandpiper 2
Nordmann's Greenshank 1
Eurasian Curlew 645 (Mai Po scrape)
Slaty-backed Gull 1/y (same bird as a couple of days ago)

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk

Had to leave before the tide went down, but among birds flying around over the bay were 6 Gull-billed Terns