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Despite disturbance from hundreds of people who were at grave sites for the Ching Ming Festival, a good variety of birds were found at Po Toi today (4 April 2009). Here are the migrants that I saw or heard about (from Mike Kilburn, Matthew Kwan & other birdwatchers):

Cattle Egret 1
Grey Heron 1
Brown Hawk Owl 1
Common Kingfisher 2
Ashy Minivet 7
Rufous-tailed Robin 1
Daurian Redstart 2
Chinese Blackbird 1
Grey-backed Thrush 1
Japanese Thrush 2
Green-backed Flycatcher fem
Narcissus Flycatcher male
Ferruginous Flycatcher 2-3
Hainan Blue Flycatcher male
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 4 (3m, 1f)
Yellow-browed Warbler 5
Silky Starling 5
Black-faced Bunting 4

Richard

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It was hard going at times, especially when the boat was heading into the wind, but the end result for a group of 30 or so birders & photographers was memorable views of flycatchers & seabirds and a decent collective list of birds for the day (11 April 2009).

Big thank you to Andrew Hardacre.

Migrants & birds of note seen at Po Toi:

Grey-faced Buzzard 8
Besra 1
Crested Goshawk 1
Ashy Minivet 2
Chinese Bulbul 70 (tight flocks of 50 and 20 behaving as migrants; also some courting individuals)
Blue Rock Thrush 1
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler 1
Eastern Crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-browed Warbler 9
Narcissus Flycatcher 3 males
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 1st-summer cumatilis near helipad
Japanese Paradise Flycatcher 1

Seen in southern waters:

Streaked Shearwater 1
Red-necked Phalarope 40
Eastern Curlew 9
Great Crested Tern 2
Aleutian Tern 3
Arctic Skua 3
Brown Hawk Owl 1
Arctic Skua 3

lrichard

A bit of double-reporting here. Mike T & I have posted more or less the same news simultaneously!