The middle 4 images are of a Bull-headed shrike; lanius bucephalus. This was a good find at the Lion's Nature Education Centre near Sai Kung. There aren't too many records of this species although there was a repeat visitor for many years in the orchard at Tai Po Kau.
The top one is our old friend Mr. Daurian Redstart and the final image is Blue whistling thrush. This is almost a misnomer as it utters a rather wheezy whistle and it has none of the jauntiness of the Cockney sparrer's whistle or the lilting harmony of Roger Whitaker. But there we are. The BWT can and does fan its tail rather engagingly and as far as I know that is something Roger W can not do but I stand ready to be corrected.
I do of course wish my reader a most enjoyable holiday season (note that I am politically correct and do not assume the celebration of Christmas) and a prosperous 2009. However, unless my reader is a bankruptcy lawyer I suspect the second part may be a struggle. Humbug.
4 comments:
It always amazes me how great your pictures of birds are. I don't think I have the patience (and definitely not the proper equipment) to do that.
It's interesting to see a Caucasian being politically correct by avoiding saying Merry Christmas when most Asians (at least in in the CJK world) would greet each other Merry Christmas even though they are not Christians.
I saw a woodpecker today - just gorgeous. I wish I'd managed to get a shot for you!
Tiny, you would look most odd with my equipment. But thank you for your kind words.
DG, high time you saw a 'pecker again.
... or a woody, as they're sometimes known.
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