Mike's conservatory (9 Viewers)

[solitaryVSong]

I'm actually quite worried about my upcoming Singapore trip, it's going to be a tough job trying to get own any of the local birds at all because I'm hoping that most of them will be entirely new to me!

Mike

I can understand this but my guess is that it won't take long before the excitement of being able to see and draw new birds outweighs everything else and your worries completely disappear.

 

[Woody]

I can understand this but my guess is that it won't take long before the excitement of being able to see and draw new birds outweighs everything else and your worries completely disappear.

Hope so!

I've been looking at photo lists of the birds of Singapore so hopefully I'll at least have some idea of what I'm looking at. I'm off on 29th July.

Mike

 

[birdboybowley]

Take a video camera Mike!

 

[Woody]

Fortunately the video capability on my FZ100 is pretty good. But then the operator capability ain't so hot!

Mike

 

[Strandman]

I'm actually quite worried about my upcoming Singapore trip, it's going to be a tough job trying to get own any of the local birds at all because I'm hoping that most of them will be entirely new to me!

I should be able to see European kingfishers though so at least I'll have something familiar!

Mike

good luck- hopefully yer kingfishers will look like this..

http://www.besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/091101-Kfisher.jpg

 

[timwootton]

Oooo - I'm getting all excited for you!!! - Bloody wish I was coming with you.

 

[Lykos]

good luck with your Trip to Singapore

 

[Woody]

good luck- hopefully yer kingfishers will look like this..

http://www.besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/091101-Kfisher.jpg

The friends I'll be staying with were telling me last week (via Skype) that they had seen a stork billed kingfisher from the balcony of their apartment, so here's hoping!

Mike

 

[Woody]

Oooo - I'm getting all excited for you!!! - Bloody wish I was coming with you.

You're 'Wootton of the North' mate, Singapore might be a bit warmer and sunnier than you're used to! Otherwise I'd be happy to sneak you into a slimline suitcase and bring you along.



Mike

 

[Woody]

good luck with your Trip to Singapore

Cheers Gaby, I'm beginning to get excited now and there's another 6 weeks before I go!

Mike

 

[timwootton]

You're 'Wootton of the North' mate, Singapore might be a bit warmer and sunnier than you're used to! Otherwise I'd be happy to sneak you into a slimline suitcase and bring you along.



Mike

Not kidding mate - wherever I go it's blinkin' cold! Nice gesture re. the smuggling away; may just need a slightly differently designed suitcase than the 'slimline' one you refer to . . . one that's used to carrying a base-drum may be more useful.

 

[Lykos]

you will see....the time run away

I`m jealous

 

[nickderry]

cracking spoonbill sketches - I think the excitement of seeing it is the reason the sketches are so good and lively - no time to worry about whether it's accurate or not and so you have some sketches that ooze spoonbill essence with that big brute of a spoon - none of that reasonable-looking laboratory spatula crap that you sometimes see.

Have fun in Singapore - just don't try and smuggle chewing gum in!

 

[Woody]

Have fun in Singapore - just don't try and smuggle chewing gum in!

I fully intend to have fun thanks Nick. My friend gets her chewing gum on prescription believe it or not!

Mike

 

[Woody]

Look what turned up at his old roost spot yesterday morning.

It was a brief sighting, he sat on his girder for the first sketch, got up and flew a circuit of the building, landed back in his spot for the second sketch then promptly beggared off East!

Hopefully they'll return for the winter having attempted to breed elsewhere and failed.

Mike

 

[nickderry]

beautiful pencil 'sculptures'.

 

[solitaryVSong]

Always a pleasure to see, and a pleasant surprise for you as well I'd guess.

 

[Woody]

Cheers guys, gotta admit I love seeing 'em!

Just on a whim and an hour or so; An oik sitting on the remains of an old boat down by the Medway estuary.

A happy little sketch as the big projects don't seem to be happening for me the last couple of weeks. Ah well, to quote Les Mis; It'll come, it'll come, it'll come...

Mike

 

[colleenc]

nice work1

 

[JTMB]

Really like the oystercatcher, Mike! I'm rather jealous of you folks who seem to have oystercatchers turning up constantly. They require some effort for us to see, despite being quite near to the coast.