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Posted Sunday 13th April 2008 at 07:05 by china guy
Updated Sunday 13th April 2008 at 13:05 by china guy
Chengdu Birding – chengduuk@hotmail.com - Chengdu, Sichuan, the gateway to Tibet.
is it a plane, is it superman - no it's superhoopoe!!! Here's one I caught in mid flight.
It never ceases to amaze me how certain elements of nature are just so resilient and hardy, that they seem able to hang on in what looks like the most unrewarding of environments.
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Posted Monday 28th January 2008 at 05:08 by china guy
Updated Monday 28th January 2008 at 05:26 by china guy
Chengdu Birding – Chengdu, Sichuan the gateway to Tibet.
Contact - chengduuk@hotmail.com.
Today it was a trip to another interesting Chengdu spot – the famous Panda research center. This place is located within parkland about 10km to the north of the city. Here you’ll find a lot of nice woodland, scrubby thicket and large areas of thick propagated Bamboo (a jungle of Panda fodder). The Pandas themselves are kept in large open-air enclosures that are full of trees, bush and... |
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Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 at 11:11 by china guy
Updated Wednesday 23rd January 2008 at 10:57 by china guy
Chengdu Birding – chengduuk@hotmail.com - Chengdu, Sichuan, the gateway to Tibet.
Here’s an interesting notice selling Bird watching to the masses - Chinese style. I think it starts quite well – the sentiment is there – but doesn’t it rather taper off at the end. Please read and then try to translate into English!!!! The best translation gets a prize. Funniest translations are of course those that stand the greatest chance of winning this one.
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Posted Sunday 20th January 2008 at 14:15 by china guy
Updated Wednesday 23rd January 2008 at 10:51 by china guy
Chengdu Birding - Chengdu, Sichuan, the gateway to Tibet.
contact - chengduuk@hotmail.com
The last week has been pretty chilly for Chengdu standards – nothing below zero – but we’ve even seen snow – although it never sticks.
Yesterday I took a river walk on the outskirts of the city – the usual nasty grey Chinese cityscape – industry, suburban sprawl the ever-present litter and rubble of so-called Chinese progress. Amazingly nature hangs on in this mess – and even seems... |
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Posted Saturday 12th January 2008 at 12:59 by china guy
Updated Wednesday 23rd January 2008 at 10:30 by china guy
Contact - chengduuk@hotmail.com
A DAY ON THE RIVER
Today’s Chengdu birding took place about 40km’s outside the city proper –in fact situated “next-door” to a very popular tourist destination – the San Xin Dui archaeological site and museum. But our watching was on the bordering river – the promisingly named Ya Ze He – Duck river.
Ruddy Shelduck - a truly noisy duck
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