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Message: <blockquote data-quote="china guy" data-source="post: 1579364" data-attributes="member: 6819">Here's a pic from today's hand harvesting - that must be back-breaking work - you can't blame these guys for wanting to get a mechanical harvester in there (the rice harvesters run on caterpillar tracks) - just wish somehow we could compensate for the loss of habitat quality that must come with mechanisation - like the protection of smaller wetland sites that house such a rich ecology.However I'm afraid we may have to look many years into the future before the concept of local nature reserves gets off the ground!!!!!And good news today - a bit of cunning and playing around with HTLM script has allowed me to add new articles with pictures onto my Sichuan birds blogspot site (actually the first new article is just a copy of one of my birdforum blog articles) - you can see it here - <a href="http://sichuanbirds.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">sichuanbirds.blogspot.com/</a>But I'm afraid anyone trying to view it from China will still get a page error - you have to read it through a proxy.However today is the end of our little work pause, so I haven't got too much time to play around with blogspot - we're due off tomorrow on a trip, the first of a series of jobs that keep us busy until mid-October!!!!!If we get anything real interesting we'll try to  get it down here - just as long as our wireless connection can get through.</blockquote>