kmike

These two days have produced some good birds at Mai Po, with a good variety of gulls, and waders :


Temminck's Stint - 8
Red-necked Stint - 30
Spoon-billed Sandpiper - 1 (not seen by me)
Sanderling - 1
Curlew Sandpiper - 20
Dunlin - 10
Great Knot - 20
Red Knot - 1

Broad-billed Sandpiper - 1
Terek Sandpiper - 4

Nordmann's Greenshank - 1
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Redshank - 1
Spotted Redshank - 30
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Little Ringed Plover
Greater Sandplover - 5
Kentish Plover
Grey Plover
Grey-headed Lapwing - 1

Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1
Common Snipe
Eurasian Curlew
Eastern Curlew  - 1
Whimbrel - 1

Avocet
Black-winged Stilt
Oriental Pratincole - 2

(also Greater Painted Snipe and "Swintail" Snipe were at Long Valley)

Gulls:

Black-headed Gull
Saunders' Gull - 1

Kamchatka Gull - 1
Black-tailed Gull - 2

Heuglin's Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Vega Gull - 1
Slaty-backed Gull - 2

There were also 4 Falcated Duck (3 females and 1 male) from the new hide


Cheers

Mike K

kmike

Hi Bena

th flycatcher in the pic is a female Narcissus (note the reddish tail and stubby bill).

Not sure who submitted it or which day, but I can see no record of a female Narc.

Cheers
Mike K

kmike

Today at Mai Po (mostly on the Scrape)


Black-faced Spoonbill - 15
Striated heron - 3


Oriental Pratincole - 3

Painted Snipe - 2

Asiatic Dowitcher - 2

Nordmann's Greenshank - 3

Ruff - 1

Saunders' Gull - 1 - very late record
Black-headed Gull - 4

Gull-billed Tern - 7
Little Tern - 5

Chinese Blackbird - 1

Oriental Reed Warbler - 2

Cheers
Mike K