2011 HK

7/12 (Tue) - 8/1 (Mon)
HK

Around my home: 紅咀藍鵲(Blue Magpie), Egrets, Night Herons, and a birder said there is a colony of 黑領噪鶥 here.

Photo: 
 7/13 (Wed)
 7/14 (Thu)   green insect (probably a Bush Katydid (Elimaea sp))  黑臉噪鶥: <1>   <2>  
 7/15 (Fri)
 7/16 (Sat)   Butterfly with me in morning rain
 7/17 (Sun)
 7/18 (Mon)   Cod Liver Oil:  pic137 - pic142   
 ...
 7/27 (Wed)
   小葵花鳳頭鸚鵡: 1 - in flight  
   紅領綠鸚鵡: <1>   
   黑領掠鳥 亞成鳥:   
   紅耳鵯: adult-1   adult-2   
   紫嘯鶇 (Blue Whistling Thrush) - juvenile   
   Album
 
 Dragonfly at HK Park (7/23, 7/27) & Aberdeen trail to the peak (7/24):
 7/23 (Sat)   male Crimson Dropwing ( Trithemis aurora, 曉褐蜻, p334《香港蜻蜓》2011 )  <1>    <2>    <3>    <4>    <5>    <6>    <7>    <8>    <9>    <10>    <11>    <12>    (some having better details because of flash) cf. pictures found on Web:  紅色螢光筆   males & females
 7/23 (Sat)   male Common Red Skimmer ( Orthetrum pruinosum neglectum, 赤褐灰蜻, p308《香港蜻蜓》2011 )  <1>     probably: {1} teneral male Crimson Dropwing ; {2} not likely male Red-faced Skimmer ( Orthetrum chrysis 華麗灰蜻, p296《香港蜻蜓》2011 ) ;
 7/24 (Sun)   male Indigo Dropwing ( Trithemis festiva, 慶褐蜻, p336《香港蜻蜓》2011 )   <1>    <2>    <3>    <4>    <5>    <6>    probably: {1} Common Blue Skimmer ( p.298《香港蜻蜓》2011 )
 7/27 (Wed)   all the above 3 dragonflies.  No new species (although some blue ones do have the conspicuous droplet-like yellowish brown markings (黃斑) on the center of the dorsum of segments 4-7, they are still Indigo Dropwing, perhaps younger one? or older one?).  cf. pictures found on Web:   this one has more markings so may be confused with Blue Chaser (p.318)
 7/27 (Wed)   曉褐蜻 - <1>   <2>   <3>   
 7/27 (Wed)   慶褐蜻 - <1>   <2>   

 Butterfly at HK Park (7/23, 7/27) & Aberdeen trail to the peak (7/24):
 7/23 (Sat)   a big one
 7/24 (Sun)  
 7/27 (Wed)   a brown one

 Birds at Edward Youde Aviary, HK Park (香港公園 觀鳥園):
  爪哇禾雀 (Java Sparrow, a finch also known as Java Finch or Java Rice Bird, Padda oryzivora ) - <1> (2 males or 1M1F?; cf. pictures found on Web:   male wooing female   youngster) 
  長冠八哥 (Bali Starling, Leucopsar rothschildi, also known as Rothschild's Mynah, Bali Myna, or Bali Mynah) - female 1
  虹彩吸蜜鹦鹉 (Rainbow Lorikeet) -
  黑頂吸蜜鸚鵡 (Black-capped Lory) -
  紅色吸蜜鸚鵡 (Red Lory) -
  和平鳥 (Asian Fairy Bluebird) -
  藍翅葉鵯 (Blue-winged Leafbird) -
  鳳頭鳩 (Crested Pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes; 一种生活在澳洲的鸟 ) -
  綠翅(背)金鳩 Chalcophaps indica (Common Emerald Dove) - <1>   <2>  
  绿皇鸠 (Green Imperial Pigeon,  Ducula aenea) - <1>   <2>   <3>  
  鵲椋 (White-necked Myna, Streptocitta albicollis) - <1>  
  ? 黑喉红臀鹎 Red-vented Bulbul, Pycnonotus cafer - <1>
  cf. 2009 log   birdlist  leaflet   2010 March-April in HK

Video:
  juvenile Black-collared Starlings ( 黑領掠鳥 亞成鳥 ) - 小朋友唔可以爭食  
  fledged Red-whiskered Bulbul ( 紅耳鵯 羽毛尚未豐滿/剛會飛 ) - <1>

Info: 黑領噪鶥 在九龍公園的鳥園裡籠中飼養 .  It and also 黑臉噪鶥 是畫眉科的.  這兩種鳥的叫聲宏亮，而且也都是群體活動，當一整群一起鳴叫時，確實有點吵，台灣畫眉科的鳥類裡，沒有看到叫噪鶥的，事實上是命名方式的不同，在中國 (inc. 台灣) 的鳥類名稱中就有一種 "玉山噪鶥" ，牠就是台灣特有種的鳥類 "金翼白眉"，金翼白眉也是叫聲宏亮，挺吵的。

katydid (紡織娘)

當蚱蜢遇見紡織娘 

雄性長冠八哥長有優美的鳥冠