fneil

Digiscoped on Lamma Island last week in reasonable light. Neil

Nikon P5100 plus Swarovski STS80HD scope and Sw30x eyepiece and DCA adapter

Lamma Island, 南丫島
Hong Kong,
China.
04/10/07

gary

Hi Neil,

the bird looks like a rare sub-species baicalensis.
I'm not sure how many record in Hong Kong before (one or two?), but anyway worth to submit the record to record committee and check the photos to confirm.

Gary

fneil

Interesting Gary.  I'll pass it on. Neil.

wgeoff

I also think this is baicalensis. You can find an almost identical photo as the first topic under this same thread of 'Pipits', dated 16 Oct 2006 and titled 'Transbaikalian White Wagtail'. I believe this was a first ever record for Hong Kong.

I say 'almost identical', in fact I think it is the same bird. This bird spent all of last winter 2006/7 on Po Toi in the company of a leucopsis White Wagtail. It left some time in April 2007 but returned to Po Toi on 16th August 2007 on its own. I last saw it on 16th September and I guess it has moved on to Lamma.

If correct, an interesting example of a well-recorded phenomenon of migrants being faithful to their wintering quarters as well as their breeding grounds.