Mt Faber 12Dec10

From Danny

Was at Mt Faber this morning, found this large accipiter on a tall tree, climbed up Mt Faber Road with my scope to get within eye level range but 500 meters away! The bird was on the tree for almost 45 min (gave me time to go back to car for scope & climbed up).

The 1st pic depicts 4 thin bars on the undertail. The 2nd pic shows the clean unmarked wing, especially area adjacent to the dark primaries. The 3rd pic depicts yellow cere (orangey cere for male) and yellow eye, typical for female Chinese Sparrowhawk. The bird is large relatively allowing me to spot it without bins, male is smaller. There was no white markings on the nape of this female adult bird but both adult Japanese and Chinese have bluish/slaty, grey headsides/nape to give the hooded effect as seen in JS pic.

The last pic was a Common Flying Lizard I saw at Mt Faber car park A.