10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. End of side note.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2013
This story will puzzle those who still assume my ability to fix a broken wing means I can always identify the bird from which it is drooping. Boris once told me a hysterically funny story in which he discovered his ex-wife in the process of adopting a Russian orphan without telling him. We’re walking through the Bird Park.”.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2013
I am assuming that many readers (most of you being birders) have tried taking pictures of birds in flight. If you can get the bird in the frame and keep it covered by the focussing point, the camera should track the focus as the bird moves. A pitfall of the compact and bridge cameras is that many of them suffer from shutter lag.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so, the local subspecies of Bewick’s wren, a bird described in 1908 a “very common on all parts of the island,” was gone by the 1940’s, its habitat converted into goat flesh. And so, the U.S.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
Anyhow, so every now and again, Hannes sends me incredible photos from his adopted home in Australia (he is from Tirol originally) and we exchange ideas about how we can push digiscoping just a little further. The whole setup is very nicely balanced and at just over 2.5kg I can easily hold it for longer periods without suffering from fatigue.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Stalking a Kiwi Icon Stalking a Kiwi Icon By Duncan • March 16, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Most people, if asked, would confidently name what they thought the National Bird of New Zealand was.
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