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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

10,000 Birds

It seems the ones I got decent photos of are all juveniles – it generally seems to be easier to get photos of juveniles as they have not quite learned to avoid humans. Thank god that this does not apply to humans. Sometimes being a member of the human race feels very embarrassing.

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