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  1. Gordon Ramel

    Chinese Phylloscopus warbler

    OK thanks guys, sorry it took me so long to post this thanks.
  2. Gordon Ramel

    Female Shrike in China

    OK - I guess I am happy with Bull-headed Shrike. My thanks to you all for your thoughts and wisdom.
  3. Gordon Ramel

    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
  4. Gordon Ramel

    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
  5. Gordon Ramel

    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.
  6. Gordon Ramel

    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.
  8. Gordon Ramel

    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.
  10. Gordon Ramel

    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...
  12. Gordon Ramel

    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
  14. Gordon Ramel

    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...
  15. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    The HW Wordsworth is wonderful, thanks Fugl.
  16. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    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.
  17. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    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...
  18. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    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...
  19. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    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...
  20. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    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")
  21. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    Thanks, it is a bit experimental for me, but it is nice that you liked it, I liked yours as well.
  22. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    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...
  23. Gordon Ramel

    The 7D has landed!!!

    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...
  24. Gordon Ramel

    Birds and poetry

    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...
  25. Gordon Ramel

    The 7D has landed!!!

    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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