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...
Ahh, but it is so hard to take the internet for a walk with you, and sit on a comfortable forest stool of pine needles or beech leaves and read amongst the bird song until the ants find you.
Dear Fugl, That is truly a beautiful poem - can you please tell me which book it is in - as it isn't in "Songs of Love and Empire".
Anyway here is my offering for valentines day. My own of course.
Sylvia
Sylvia Sylvia atricapilla
lived in the apple trees
owned by the Miller,
sang for his...
I wasn't - so thanks for pointing it out. However having been to see it I fear it is somewhat out of date now :D
Here's another poem - Megalohori is the village I was living in last year.
Collared Dove Watching
The Collared Dove watching in Megalohori
is so fascinating I'm writing their...
William Cowper is always a pleasure to read again, thanks Fugl. I am wary of adding poems myself for fear of repeating as I have not managed to find the time to read all 105pages yet, also many poets include birds, John Clare in particular even though the poem is not really about birds - I have...
Hi Steve,
If you like this you might like Loreena McKennit's sung version of it, I think she does it justice, one stanza is left out, but she has a magnificant voice. (the album I have is called "Live in Paris and toronto")
Hi Bascar,
thanks - yes Birdsong is one of mine, but really I would call it rhyme. Anway here is another offering which I don't think was in the birdfair pamphlet (I don't actually have a copy myself, not even electronic as I left the memory stick in the printers and they through...
Thanks Guys
Thanks for the reply and sorry it has taken me so long to get back - what I meant by "within the focus range" was that if I tried to focus manually I could slide through the sharp point and out the otherside, and of course go back through it again to the distal blur. Yes I was...
Hi All,
I've only read through about 20 pages of this highly enjoyable thread but I see at the beginning somone posted the poem below without knowing the poet - it was X.J. Kennedy
Vulture
The vulture's very like a sack,
Set down and left there drooping.
His crooked neck and creaky...
7D refusing to take a photo
OK - I have only read through pages 1-10 and 20-26 (last time here I did not notice the pages beyond 1) - it takes time, so I may have missed a relevent post. However my 7D just refused to take a photo several times. I was trying to photograph some Great Tits on a...
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