Hong Kong Birdwatching, Urban & Wetlands, canon R7 Canon RF 200-800mm, March 2024. 4K

[@kezonline]

What a fantastic video, transfixed from start to finish. It just shows what urban birding can be like, at least in that location. Superb and informative narration too. I know from Malaysian birding (once a tear trip) that heat and humidity can be very tiring too at 33c or more. As a baldie I can say you have an advantage with that protective thick hair cover haha! Re the 200-800 lens, have you found it difficult to zoom in and out with your fingers having to do 2 or 3 turns while trying to keep tabs on the object at the same time. I also see YT videos saying the R7 is prone to some sensor "shake" solved by switching from mechanical to electronic shutter operation. I guess you're happy with that combination and in fact want this myself. Thanks for taking us birding around H.K. Subbed!

[@markshen3280]

Other than the Masked Laughingthrushes, the Black-throated Laughingthrushes usually intermingle with the Masked Laughingthrushes. Congratulations 🙌🏻 on seeing a feral boar 🐗

[@markshen3280]

Good morning to you. Welcome to Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR again. Try to catch 📸📹the Oriental Magpies, and the Asian Koel birds (both MALE and FEMALE). If you walk along the New Territories waterfront areas, you may see the Greater Coucal, the Yellow Bittern, and at more remote parts of the New Territories, you might see the Hoopoe birds. Other than birds, you will also see feral cows 🐂🐂🐂🐂and feral pigs as well. Both the Red-whiskered Bulbuls and the Chinese Bulbuls are everywhere!

[@markshen3280]

Oh, by the way, you should also visit SAI KUNG in the New Territories as there can be lots of seabirds as well as local birds can be seen at any one time. The Swinehoe White-eye is more commonly called, the Japanese White-eye.

[@markshen3280]

The Asian Koel is pronounced [KOH-ELLLE]. That sound you heard and saw is the MALE Koel. The FEMALE Koel makes a difference sound. Crows 🐦‍⬛ in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 only comes in two varieties : the White-collared Crow and the Large-billed Crow.

[@marcuscaruana6772]

Have you ever tried Singapore? I will be there in November with the same setting and the same shorts :) but I bet with a whole lot of mosquito spray.

[@stormcabbirds]

@@marcuscaruana6772 was there in 2005 long before I was a bird watcher. Funnily, I did take a couple of bird photos as they were right there.

[@jamespark9254]

I would like to know the model name of the harness you are wearing.

[@stormcabbirds]

@@jamespark9254 did a video on it kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6PEd3eVrc-WsKssi=f4RrrWESC9OernO4

[@artherethere]

Still in HK? you can go to The Edward Youde Aviary of Hong Kong Park

[@stormcabbirds]

@@artherethere no not there

[@artherethere]

@@stormcabbirds no problem, let next time. Welcome to HK 👍

[@markshen3280]

That JUVENILE Heron is the Yellow-crowned Night Heron. I checked with GOOGLE. 😁