Places and Trails across Hong Kong
Yim Tin Tsai and Kiu Tsai aka Sharp Island – saltpans and sampan rides
Especially during weekends and public holidays, booths by Sai Kung public piers offer an array of boat tours to nearby islands and scenic coastlines. While longer excursions to view the Geopark’s volcanic rock formations are tempting, there are options for short rides that are also rewarding and stay within the…
Sai Wan included in Sai Kung Country Park: nothing is better
Visit Sai Wan on a hot sunny Sunday, and it can seem like the type of tropical “paradise” that many seek, yet few find. In this bay on the eastern Sai Kung Peninsula, tens of people unwind on beaches and frolic in clear azure waters. Some hiked to get here;…
Activities in Hong Kong outdoors
HK diving
Hong Kong’s rocky reefs and coral communities shelter a diverse and exquisite range of fish and marine fauna Hong Kong is surrounded by sea. The approximate sea surface area is 1650 sq km, and dotted with some 200 islands. The rocky reefs and coral communities of Hong Kong…
Al Fresco dining in Hong Kong
Several of my favourite places for eating outside in Hong Kong aren’t fancy, but are ace places to spend some time -preferably if can relax without some darn pandemic surging! After I’d always thought that “al fresco” was a fancy way of saying “outside” (as in, “Dahling, I…
Hong Kong’s Wonderful Wildlife
Take a hike through the Hong Kong countryside and, chances are, you will enjoy some wonderful scenery – maybe rugged hills and coastal headlands, streams cascading through wooded ravines, old villages set amidst abandoned rice paddies; yet there will be little wildlife in evidence other than butterflies, dragonflies,…
Perhaps surprisingly for a densely packed metropolis, Hong Kong is home to a rich biodiversity, with impressive numbers of plant and animal species, some of which are rare worldwide, or even found nowhere else on earth. In part, this is because along with urban areas there are relatively…
Weather including tropical cyclones
Hong Kong tropical cyclones
Hong Kong can be impacted by tropical cyclones including and typhoons. Happily, typhoons are scarce near Hong Kong, and rarely score direct hits (13 from 1946 to now) – but can be spectacular and deadly when they do impact the territory. As they need warm sea water to…
Hong Kong conservation
Mai Po Marshes has become one of the world’s greatest wetland reserves – and a place I’ve come to know well over the years. Indeed, Mai Po was a key factor that enticed me to come and live in Hong Kong, in January 1987: after leading bird migration…
There’s a tremendous opportunity to showcase Hong Kong biodiversity in West Kowloon cultural park. We agree with your correspondents who said native flora is vital for the West Kowloon cultural park project. There is a fantastic opportunity to create a park to improve inner-city biodiversity and to raise…
A government plan to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity maybe offered the last best hope for Hong Kong’s wildlife; but what a damp squib! A government plan to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity could offer the last best hope for Hong Kong’s wildlife. On learning that…
HK Outdoors photo galleries
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Black-faced Spoonbills- Pied Avocets, at Mai Po scrape during high tide in winter
- Oriental Stork
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Amur Stonechat
- Great Cormorants
- Black-winged Stilt flight
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Relict Gull, Mai Po
- House Swift
- Grey Heron
- Oriental Storks at Mai Po, Dec 1990
- Chinese Egret, Mai Po
- Oriental Pratincole
- Collared Dove
- Great Cormorant
- Great Cormorants heading to mouth of Deep Bay; Shenzhen beyond
- Black-faced Spoonbill and reflection
- Great Cormorants
- Little Grebe
- Pied Avocets and Eurasian Curlew
- Great Cormorants
- Black-faced and European Spoonbills w Great Egret
- Three Whimbrel, Mai Po
- Black-faced Spoonbills
- Common Redshank
- Oriental Stork
- Eurasian Curlew
- Oriental Stork, w Shenzhen beyond
- Osprey
- Pied Avocets
- Pied Kingfisher
- Greater Spotted Eagle
- Chinese Egret and Black-faced Spoonbill, Mai Po
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Great Cormorant at San Tin, Shenzhen building beyond
- Great Black-headed and Common Black-headed Gulls
- Black Kite and Pied Avocets
- Glaucous Gull, Deep Bay
- Chinese Penduline Tit
- Drake Northern Shoveler and reflection
- Caspian Tern and Eurasian Curlew
- Pied Avocet
- Northern Shoveler
- Saunders' Gull and friends
- Black-faced Spoonbill in Deep Bay
- Black-winged Stilt and reflection
- Pied Avocets and Asian Dowitcher, Mai Po
- Chinese Egret and Black-faced Spoonbills, Deep Bay, Mai Po
- Black-faced Spoonbills with Shenzhen beyond
- Immature Black-faced Spoonbill, flight, Mai Po
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Collared Crows, Mai Po
- Common Greenshank approaching, Mai Po
- Two Common Redshank landing
- Whimbrel, Mai P
- Pied Kingfisher
- Plain Prinia, Mai Po
- Eastern Curlew, Mai Po
- Cattle Egret and water buffalo, Mai Po
- Terek Sandpipers clustered at high tide, Mai Po
- Black-faced Spoonbills and Chinese Egret
- Crested Serpent-Eagle by Lion Head Mountain, Lantau
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Large-billed Crow
- Common Kestrel
- White's Thrush
- Eastern Buzzard
- Red-flanked Bluetail
- Large-billed Crows mobbing Crested Goshawk
- Black-faced Bunting
- Black-naped Oriole
- Chestnut Bulbul
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater, migrating over Lion Head Mountain
- Crested Serpent-Eagle over wooded slopes of Lantau Peak
- Chinese Sparrowhawk
- Besra
- Common Kestrel
- Grey-faced Buzzards over Lion Head Mountain, Lantau
- Booted Eagle - 2nd for Hong Kong, 2 October 2022
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle
- Barn Swallow
- Pacific Swift
- Osprey
- Chinese Sparrowhawk
- Crested Serpent-Eagles
- Crested Serpent-Eagle
- White-throated Needletail
- juvenile Crested Goshawk
- Chinese Sparrowhawk over Lion Head Mountain, Lantau, Hong Kong
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
- Crested Serpent-Eagle on Lion Head Mountain, Lantau
- Eye-browed Thrushes
- Common Kestrel
- House Swift
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle
- Yellow-browed Bunting
- Crested Serpent-Eagles battling over Lantau
- Grey-faced Buzzard
- Grey-faced Buzzards
- Pacific Swift
- Chestnut Bulbul
- Crested Goshawk displaying
- Ruddy-breasted Crake, Pui O
- Northern Lapwing
- Grey-faced Buzzard
- Hoopoe
- Black-winged Stilt
- Chinese Grosbeak
- Barn Swallow with rusty underparts like tytleri
- Brown Shrike
- Cattle Egrets with Intermediate Egret
- Greater Paintedsnipe
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Drake Common Teal
- Grey-headed Lapwing, Pui O
- Cattle, Little and Intermediate egrets, Pui O
- Eastern Buzzard
- Great Egret
- Greater Sandplover
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher
- Little, Intermediate and Cattle egrets
- Japanese Yellow Bunting
- Little Egret
- Male Kentish Plover
- Northern Skylark
- Pheasant-tailed Jacanas, Pui O
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Oriental Pratincole
- Yellow Wagtail taivana
- Grey-headed Lapwing at Pui O, Lantau
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana
- Oriental Honey Buzzard, over slopes of Sunset Peak above Pui O
- Barn Swallow
- Kentish Plover
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana and Little Egrets, Pui O
- Red-throated Pipit
- White Wagtail
- Yellow Wagtail taivana
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Swinhoe's or Pintail snipe
- Little, Great and Intermediate egrets, Pui O
- Swinhoe's or Pintail snipe
- Black-capped Kingfisher
- Oriental Plover
- Eastern Reef Egret
- Oriental Honey Buzzard over slopes above Pui O
- Brown Shrike, Pui O
- Grey-headed Lapwing, Pui O
- Ruff with Crested Mynah and Water Buffalo, Pui O
- Yellow Wagtail (taivana) at Pui O, Lantau
- Red-necked Stint at Shui Hau, Lantau
- Yellow Wagtail
- Reef Egret
- Two Common Redshanks, Shui Hau, and reflections
- Siberian Lesser Sandplover and Red-necked Stints
- Fairy Pitta
- Little Egrets and Intermediate Egret
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Long-toed Stint, autumn
- Whimbrel and shellfish collector
- Dark-sided Flycatcher
- Arctic Warbler
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Common Kingfisher
- Pacific Reef Egret
- Pacific Golden Plover, autumn
- Pacific Reef Egret
- White Wagtail
- Greater and Siberian sandplovers
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Red-necked Stint
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Siberian Lesser Sandplover and Greater Sandplover
- Common Sandpiper
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Whimbrel
- Shorebirds and lap sap
- Greater Sandplover
- Crested Goshawk
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Greater Sandplover
- Two Common Redshank w reflections, Shui Hau
- Grey Wagtail
- pale Kentish Plover
- Red-necked Stints and Sandplovers at Shui Hau
- Red-necked Stints
- Fairy Pitta
- Sanderling
- Terek Sandpiper
- White's Thrush
- Tibetan Lesser Sandplover
- Arctic Warbler, Shui Hau
- White-throated Kingfisher
- Broad-billed Sandpiper and Curlew Sandpiper
- Grey-tailed Tattler, Shui Hau
- Common Redshank, Shui Hau
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Long-toed Stint
- Kentish Plover and clam diggers
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Lesser Sandplovers
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Grey Bushchat
- Male Kentish Plover, w dark legs, Shui Hau
- Male Kentish Plover, w pink legs, Shui Hau
- Summer plumage Cattle Egrets
- Band of Grey-tailed Tattlers, Shui Hau
- Dunlin, winter plumage
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Shui Hau
- Little Egret hunting in mangroves at Shui Hau
- Red-necked Stint
- Band of Grey-tailed Tattlers, Shui Hau
- Cattle Egret and water buffalo
- Long-toed Stint
- Striated Heron
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-necked Stints on Lantau
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Magpie Robin
- Cattle Egret on Water Buffalo, Shui Hau, Lantau
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Common Reshank n mangroves reflection Shui Hau
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Male Kentish Plover w pink legs, Shui Hau
- Male Kentish Plover w dark legs, Shui Hau
- Black-winged Stilts
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Whimbrel and water buffalo, Shui Hau
- Grey-tailed Tattler and Black-winged Stilt
- Whimbrel
- Sanderling
- Common Redshank and Whimbrel
- Two-barred Greenish Warbler, at Shui Hau, Lantau
- Cattle Egret, Shui Hau
- Wood Sandpiper, Shui Hau
- Male Scarlet Minivet
- Eastern Buzzard
- Spring blossoms: cherry
- Bull-headed Shrike
- Grey-chinned Minvet
- Black Kites and rising moon
- Grey-backed Thrush
- Pair of Red-whiskered Bulbuls
- Brown-headed Thrush
- Common Sandpiper
- Brown Shrike
- Black Kites above Sai Wan roost
- Besra
- Brownish-flanked Bush-Warbler
- Eastern Buzzard
- Bull-headed Shrike
- White-tailed Robin
- Sanderling, Cheung Chau
- White Wagtail
- Brown-headed Thrush
- Flying Egret, Setting Sun
- Black-naped Tern
- Brown Noddy and Roseate Tern from ferry
- Emerald Dove, Cheung Chau
- White-winged and Whiskered Terns, Cheung Chau
- Lesser Frigatebird mobbed by Large-billed Crows
- Lesser Frigatebird and Black Kite w rising moon
- Crested Goshawk displaying
- Daurian Redstart
- Eastern Buzzard
- Fork-tailed Sunbird
- Common Black-headed Gull
- Black Kite
- Brown Noddy from ferry
- Blyth's Reed Warbler
- Besra, Cheung Chau
- Kloss' Leaf-Warbler
- Red-footed Booby: a badly injured bird, later euthanisedfound on a Cheung Chau beach on 18 March 2024; taken to Kadoorie Farm, but vets found its shoulder injuries were too severe to nurse it back to health
- Oriental Pratincole
- Bluethroat
- Great Cormorants
- Amur Stonechat
- Eastern Buzzard
- Collared Dove
- Black-faced Spoonbills
- Great Cormorants
- Barn Swallow
- Great Cormorants
- House Swift
- Intermediate Egret
- Great Cormorants
- Great Cormorants over Fung Lok Wai
- Great Cormorants, and skyscraper in Shenzhen
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Northern Shoveler
- Tufted Duck
- Oriental Pratincole
- Great Cormorants
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Great Cormorant
- Great Cormorants heading to mouth of Deep Bay; Shenzhen beyond
- Great Cormorants
- Greater Crested Terns
- Brown Booby
- Brown Noddy
- Brown Noddy and Roseate Tern from ferry
- Black-naped Tern
- Black-naped Tern
- Bridled Tern dappled sea
- Lesser Frigatebird mobbed by Large-billed Crows
- Black-naped Tern, from ferry
- White-winged Terns
- Brown Noddy from ferry
- Roseate Terns
- Red-footed Booby: a badly injured bird, later euthanisedfound on a Cheung Chau beach on 18 March 2024; taken to Kadoorie Farm, but vets found its shoulder injuries were too severe to nurse it back to health
- Aleutian Tern
- White-winged and Whiskered Terns
- Bridled Terns over Castle Rock
- Short-tailed Shearwater taking off
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Japanese Cormorant
- Roseate Tern
- Brown Noddy with Bridled, Black-naped and Roseate Terns
- Caspian Tern and Eurasian Curlew
- Pomarine Skua
- White-winged and Whiskered Terns
- Arctic Skua
- Lesser Frigatebird and Black Kite w rising moon
- Greater Crested Tern
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Brown Booby
- Common Black-headed Gull
- Red-necked Phalarope flight
- Black Kite
- Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher
- Red-necked Stint
- Male Scarlet Minivet
- Crested Serpent-Eagle by Lion Head Mountain, Lantau
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
- Blue Magpie
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Large-billed Crow
- White-spectacled Warbler
- Pallas' Leaf-Warbler
- Male Kentish Plover, w dark legs, Shui Hau
- Black-faced Spoonbills with Shenzhen beyond
- White's Thrush
- Greater Crested Terns
- Yellow-browed Bunting
- Pacific Swift
- Black-naped Tern
- Magpie Robin
- Brown Fish Owl
- Crested Goshawk
- Blyth's Reed Warbler
- Red-footed Booby: a badly injured bird, later euthanisedfound on a Cheung Chau beach on 18 March 2024; taken to Kadoorie Farm, but vets found its shoulder injuries were too severe to nurse it back to health
- Barn Swallow
- Grey Bushchat
- Drake Northern Shoveler and reflection
- Black-faced Spoonbill in Deep Bay
- Greater Crested Tern
- Brown Booby
- Crested Serpent-Eagle over wooded slopes of Lantau Peak
- Northern Shoveler
- Oriental Stork
- Amur Stonechat
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Black-faced Spoonbills
- Chestnut Bulbul
- Grey-chinned Minvet
- Common Kestrel
- Pacific Reef Egret
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Fork-tailed Sunbird
- Daurian Redstart
- Two Common Redshanks, Shui Hau, and reflections
- Japanese Cormorant
- Bull-headed Shrike
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle
- Pied Avocets and Asian Dowitcher, Mai Po
- Chinese Egret, Mai Po
- Three Whimbrel, Mai Po
- Immature Black-faced Spoonbill, flight, Mai Po
- Collared Crows, Mai Po
- Eastern Buzzard
- Chinese Sparrowhawk over Lion Head Mountain, Lantau, Hong Kong
- Ruddy-breasted Crake, Pui O
- Japanese Yellow Bunting
- Crested Goshawk
- Two Common Redshank landing
- Hoopoe
- Terek Sandpipers clustered at high tide, Mai Po
- Female Japanese Sparrowhawk
- Siberian Lesser Sandplover and Red-necked Stints
- Black-faced Spoonbill and reflection
- Brown Fish Owl, Cheung Chau
- Pheasant-tailed Jacanas, Pui O
- Arctic Warbler, Shui Hau
- Cattle, Little and Intermediate egrets, Pui O
- Sanderling, Cheung Chau
- Besra, Cheung Chau
- Black-winged Stilt and reflection
- White-throated Needletail
- Whimbrel and water buffalo, Shui Hau
- Brown-cheeked Rail: eastern water rail
- Kloss' Leaf-Warbler
- Crested Serpent-Eagles
- Bull-headed Shrike
- Relict Gull at Mai Po
- Eurasian Black Vulture, Pak Nai
- Oriental Honey Buzzard, dark form
- Chinese Egret and Black-faced Spoonbill, Mai Po
- Leschenault's Rousette fruit bat
- Common Tigers at roost
- Changeable Lizard displaying; bougainvillea beyond
- Great Mormon gynandromorph
- Chinese White Dolphin
- Wild Boar
- Common Bluebottle
- Bamboo Snake
- Pied Skimmer
- Plain Tiger
- White Dragontail
- Tailed Jay
- Wild Boar food waste recycling
- Duelling Changeable Lizards
- Chequered Keelback swimming across a Hong Kong fish pond
- Rhesus Macaque
- Lantern Bug
- Leopard Cat, Mai Po
- Chinese White Dolphin from Dolphinwatch boat
- Great Mormon
- Pallas' Squirrel
- Chinese White Dolphin
- Short-legged Toad
- Small Asian Mongoose
- Red-base Jezebel
- Lantern Bugs
- Wild Boar and fan
- Changeable Lizard
- Common and Dark-veined tigers
- Changeable Lizard
- Blue-tailed Skink
- Hummingbird Hawk Moth
- Hummingbird Hawkmoth
- Rhesus Macaque mum n child
- Potter Wasp
- Changeable Lizard
- Bamboo Bee at Ginger Flower
- Paris Peacock
- Globe Skimmers aka Wandering Gliders in mating clasp
- Tailed Jay
- Megacolia azurea a species of scoliid wasp
- Lai Chi Wo
- San Wai entrance
- Lai Chi Wo
- Shek Kwu Chau Roman Baths
- Shek O Beach
- Pak Sha O
- Sheung Cheung Wai
- Pak Sha O
- Seven Sisters Temple, Peng Chau
- Pak Sha O by drone
- Pak Tei Temple, Cheung Chau
- Kwun Yam Temple, Lantau
- Ancestor Hall moon gate
- Kun Ting Study Hall
- Ping Shan Pagoda
- ping shan tang and yu kiu ancestral halls
- Sheung Cheung Wai
- Lo Wai entrance
- Peng Chau Tin Hau Temple
- Yim Tin Tsai
- Yim Tin Tsai salt sweeping
- Gnomes at Yim Tin Tsai
- Sapling against mist over Lantau Peak
- Double Haven
- Lion Rock by drone
- Daybreak at Sai Wan, Tai Long Wan, Sai Kung
- Eastern Fan Lau including fort by drone
- Shek Pik Reservoir reflection, Lantau
- Ngong Ping with mist over Lantau Peak
- Lightning from Cheung Chau
- Sunset over Shek Kwu Chau and Lantau amidst sea fog
- Ma On Shan summit
- Fan Lau and Lantau hills from southwest by drone
- Eastern approach to Ma On Shan
- Double Haven
- Hikers on Lantau Peak, by drone
- Drone view of Ma On Shan towards north
- Lai Chi Wo by drone
- Reclining Rocks, Cheung Chau
- Main Fall at Ng Tung Chai
- Lion Rock by drone
- Trail to summit of Lantau Peak
- Dog Tooth Ridge, Lantau, by drone
- Tai Tam Mound Waterfall
- Fan Lau Fort by drone
- Southern Po Toi by drone
- Silvermine Fall, Lantau
- Lion Head Mountain and mist over Lantau Peak
- Fa Peng Shek, Cheung Chau
- Anticrepuscular rays over Lantau at dawn
- Fan Lau view by drone inc Stalactite
