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
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
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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