Birding Bali Barat (West Bali) National Park Warning: Long and picture heavy post! When: August 2019 Weather: Cool 22C NikonP900, Sony RX10.4 Our long awaited birding trip to Sumba island in the Lesser Sundas started … Continue reading
A hot humid morning in Hutchison Park, HongKong When: June 2019 Weather: HOT 32C Leica MP 35mm summilux. Nikon P900 Staying at the Kerry Hotel in Hunghom for a meeting, as usual I found a green patch on Google Maps … Continue reading
A quiet corner, Xihu, Westlake, Hangzhou When: May 2019 Weather: Cool 19C Leica M10P 35mm Summilux, Nikon P900 Our host graciously arranged dinner for us at La Villa Restaurant in the quiet Yuhu Bay area … Continue reading
Back in Hangzhou, Qiantang New Forest Park When: May 2019 Weather: Warm 20C Nikon P900 Leica M10P 35mm Summilux In Hangzhou once again and set off for an early 7am morning walk from the … Continue reading
When: May 2019 Weather: Cool 18C Nikon P900 Leica M10 35mm Summilux My second morning, on entering the BCER via the Oceanridge Drive entrance, I turned right on the Brightwater Trail and headed towards Warner, intending to walk towards the … Continue reading
When: May 2019 Weather: Cool 15C Nikon P900, Leica M10/35 summilux After my meeting in San Diego, I was very fortunate to be invited to stay in Orange County, at the Brightwater estate which borders the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve(BCER). … Continue reading
When: May 2019. Weather: Hot 20C Leica M10P/35mm Summilux and Nikon P900 Managed to get away from the Shopping outlet at Carlsbad to have a quick look round the Carlsbad Flower Fields just next door. It’s an easy walk pass … Continue reading
Birding Srinagarind Dam, Kanchanaburi, Thailand When: March 2019 Weather: Hot 30C Nikon P900, Leica M10P. 35mm Summilux. 15mm Voigtlander In Bangkok for a few days and we managed a visit to the … Continue reading
Dubai Dabblings and a few birds When: February 2019 Weather: Cool 18-20C Leica M10P/35 summilux. Nikon P900 Dubai in February is a very nice time of the year to be there….it’s of course famed … Continue reading
Snipe seeking in Singapore
When: February 2019 Weather: Hot 25C
Nikon P900 and Sony A55 with 70-400mm x2TC
With reports of the painted snipe and pin-tailed snipe in the Neo Tiew area of Singapore and my little 10 yr old niece from Scotland wanting to bird, we set off at 7am to the area where they had been sighted…
Traipsing along a little canal side, we looked for the other photographers and we started seeing some activity in and around the water where the canal turned and disappeared…
a wood sandpiper on a mudbank from afar
Wood sandpipers foraging
and on the muddy shore, a little ring plover
little ring plover
little ring plover
egret
and then from behind the greenery the unmistakeable features of the painted snipe appeared!
painted snipe and wood sandpiper
front view
back view
Painted snipe : photo by Emily Chong
And then in a flurry of brown….the other snipe appeared…
the pin-tailed snipe
much better picture of the pin-tailed snipe taken by my niece Emily.
Last bird of the morning….the grey wagtail
A couple of hours’ birding yielded two lifers…not bad going on the second day of the lunar new year….
The Natural Traveller 