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Recent content by Gordon Ramel

  1. Gordon Ramel

    Chinese Phylloscopus warbler

    OK thanks guys, sorry it took me so long to post this thanks.
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    Female Shrike in China

    OK - I guess I am happy with Bull-headed Shrike. My thanks to you all for your thoughts and wisdom.
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    Female Shrike in China

    This maybe a female tiger Shrike, or a female Brown Shrike, can it be confirmed. Photo info Huai'an City, Jiangsu, China. Date10/11/2011 Canon EOS 7D LensEF400mm f/5.6L USM ISO Speed250 Tv( Shutter Speed )1/500 Av( Aperture Value )7.1
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    Chinese Phylloscopus warbler

    This maybe a 2-Barred Greenish Warbler, but then it may be something else. Can anybody say definitivesly Photo info Huai'an City, Jiangsu, China. Date 10/11/2011 Canon EOS 7D LensEF400mm f/5.6L USM ISO Speed400 Tv( Shutter Speed )1/500 Av( Aperture Value )7.1
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    Birds and poetry

    Ruffled was a fine laugh, but the Robby Burns was lovely. Birds feature in passing in Chinese poetry, which I'm now looking at, I'll try and find a few Li Po wrote over thousand poems so I am sure there must be some I can find.
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    Birds and poetry

    Chinese Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) There is a bird I know of in the east, for city dwellers its a common sight, a promise and a natural delight within the darkened belly of the beast. See how they rise on wings of new-leaf green, wild beauty that surrounds us every day. Agile and acrobatic in...
  7. Gordon Ramel

    Phylloscopus-Eastern China

    My Thanks to you all, Lewis, Chris, Rockfowl, Gretchen, Terry and Halftwo. I will accept it as a Pallas's which was my first diagnosis.
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    Birds and poetry

    Here is something I wrote last week, sorry if it repeats things I have already said. The Live Bird Market (Huai'an, Jiangsu China) Bird singing in a cage; makes you smile, for a while. But I can hear its tears. The wonder of its wings; how its small heart aches with every breathe it takes. It...
  9. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    I like some of the imagery, but I am not sure why I should pity the land and the sea, they rejoice in the moment of the Sandpipers presence.
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    Phylloscopus-Eastern China

    Can anybody comment on this - P.yunnanensis vs P. proregulus (Chinese Leaf Warbler vs Pallas's Warbler) It seems to me that the fact that the yellow crown stripe does not reach the meeting supercilii would make it Chinese Leaf Warbler, but the white edges to the primaries would make it...
  11. Gordon Ramel

    Canon 7D & the 430 EX11 Speedlite

    Sorry - my internet access is a bit random. Yeah you had the right place to look - sadly it is totally corroded - as it has never really been wet this is a surprise - and annoying. It did get a bit misted a month os so back while I was trying to photograph a waterfall, but I dried it off with...
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    Canon 7D & the 430 EX11 Speedlite

    I have a problem with the 7D and the external flash. I was using the camera with 430EX11 Speedlite on Sunday at a friends wedding. Later when I tried to use the built in flash it wouldn't pop-up. This had happened once before and I solved it by going to flash control - choosing disable...
  13. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    Dear Fugl, For the real Cetoniids try a search for Cetonia aurata or http://wibe.ath.cx/hyonteisuutiset/2006%20No.%201/Virtala%202006a.htm
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    Birds and poetry

    Dear Fugl, do not fret, I still stop by to read now and then. Mid March to the end of May is a very busy time in the life of an ecologist, and now I am preparing to move home, change job etc, so not much time to write or play. The following is not about a bird, but you might like it. The...
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    Birds and poetry

    The HW Wordsworth is wonderful, thanks Fugl.
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