Thought you might get that one, so with the mynah answer I'll have to give you another 20 points towards the next bottle of red wine.

Seems yr way ahead of everybody Zep, so could we even things up a bit. From now could you answer the questions with one eye shut & one arm tied behind yr back & give others a chance. (shouldn't let L-B know yr into bondage though, could have some quite weighty consequences).
More pics to follow....

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This one should be easy enough...

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Could it possibly be a Chinese blackbird? Or maybe a male Koel?

Don't be silly Zep - it's a yellow-browed warbler.

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No, although both the above named were within 20 yds of the pictured bird as well as a number of others soon to be posted by "Neil"

Yesssssssss, we have another Lamma birder, albeit a visitor.

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Actually it's hair-crested drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus). A Chinese blackbbird has a bright yellow bill (alkso short and sharp) while the koel has a white bill. It's the tail that is most distinctive though, broad and curving up at the end. The final clue is the single hair crest which is just showing here. In fact the hair crest is not present on all birds.

In a couple of weeks, the very similar black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) will be arriving with the Indian cuckoos to show that the hot sweaty season is really with us. The black drongo is a bit slimmer with a deeper tail fork and much more skilful acrobatic flight. It also has a different call, a strange squeaky sound like rubbing a balloon.

PS - saw a narcissus flycatcher this morning - quite uncommon, but, along with a number of other passage migrants, a few pass through in the first two weeks of April.

Which could quite probaly lead nicely into the next photo submitted courtesy of Neil on a recent trip to Lamma.
But I'll give you a clue it's not a Yellow-browed Warbler!!!!!!

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& nor is this one.
Similarly submitted courtesy of Neil

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Hm, I'll get in before that creep Chav Darwin gets out of bed. Very nice pic of a Japanese Paradise flycatcher (the one with the long black tail and blue eye ring). I've never seen one, but heard of reports during the spring passage.

The other one I'm really not sure. My best guess on this pic would be an Asian brown flycatcher, but not everything fits. Maybe get expert advice on this one?

I think a brown flycatcher would have more noticeable white edges to the wing feathers. My choice here would be red-tailed robin. It's hard to tell without seeing the front, but there is a bit or rufous colour at the base of the tail.

Nice to have the experts baffled.

And this would be (L-B, one for you if yr quick)

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Perhaps this will help a little....

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Seems it's all too easy for Chav & Zep, they're not even deigning to answer...perhaps this will stir them...

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I was respectfully letting Chav have a go, because I know he needs the points, but he's obviously still sulking because he got one wrong last week.

The first is a cattle egret - nice buffy orange breeding plumage on the head at the moment.

The second is a Chinese Pond Heron with a bad hangover

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(Saw him flying around late Sunday still with the piece of red tape on his leg)

Ok - cleverclogs bet this'll have you confused for at least a couple of minutes..

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Fantastic shot of a brown shrike (Lanius cristatus) - these are not at all common, and only a few come by Lamma in winter, or on passage in April, so you are indeed fortunate that this one chose to land on your favorite banana.

Hmmm......., thought you might puzzle over that one a little - however there were 2 of them on opposite sides of the same "field" - think one might have been slightly larger than the other.
(Sorry about the "prop"....., it was looking for somewhere to perch, so I quickly provided one & before I had realised my "screw" up it was perched)

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Sorry to interrupt, but Ive been patiently waiting for the definitive answer as to what Lamma's Top Ten Birds are in the many months since this thread began. The playful banter here doesn't actually address this question, so I was wondering if you could change the name of the thread to something like "Birds We Like, In No Particular Order", "Birds And The Men Who Love Them", or perhaps simply "Bunch O' BIrds". Thanks, and keep up the good work!

No apologies required - see where yr coming from, but I guess in about a years time we could work up to having a poll of Lammas top 10 birds.

Would welcome pics from others as well if they are inclined, know I'm not the only one out there taking photos, but thought it was only me reading this forum.............., quite a relief to see I'm not talking to myself.

(Zep - BTW is lucionensis)

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Actually, if you look back to the very first page of this thread, you will see the explanation for the "top ten" title - the quiz provided pictures of the ten most common birds to be seen around Lamma during all seasons of the year. All those pictures were just appropriated from the Internet in the days before we realised we have an extremely talented world-class bird photographer in our midst (that should be worth another bottle of wine?)