When: December 2025 Weather: Cool 15C Nikon P900 Back in Hangzhou Intercontinental Hotel in the new city area for a meeting. I’d never found the birding in hangzhou particularly good, and especially now in winter…so instead of bringing my OM1mk2 … Continue reading
When : June 2024 Weather: Cool and wet 15-20C Nikon P900, Leica M11, Q3 Returning from the back mountain, we headed to the front of Qing Cheng mountain intending to take the cable car to the top but alas we … Continue reading
When : June 2024 Weather: Cool 20C NikonP900, Leica M11/35mm F1.4 summilux Qingcheng mountain is the home of Taoism and is famed for being a peaceful natural place, the basis of Tao. We opted to visit the back mountain in … Continue reading
When : June 2024 Weather : Warm 20C Nikon P900, Leica M11, Leica Q3 The Doujiangyen irrigation system was built more than 2000 years ago by an astonishingly smart and far sighted governor of the region called Li Bing. It … Continue reading
When: June 2024 Weather: Cool 20C
Nikon P900
After a most successful conference in Chengdu where we stayed at the Century City Intercontinental Hotel, I finally had an hour free at 7am on our last day….I wandered across to the GuiXi Ecological Park which is opposite the hotel to reacquaint myself with the birds there….
Just an hour in the park but a few pleasant encounters…
When: October 2023 Weather : Cool 17-23C Leica Q, Nikon P950 Day 2 in Chengdu, 7am start at Guexi Eco Park, West side. You have to cross a huge road to get to it…. The pandas are well worth seeing … Continue reading
When: October 2023 Weather: 17-21C Leica Q and Nikon P950 In Chengdu, Szechuan Province, China for a recce visit prior to our conference to be held here next year, we stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel which adjoins the Century City … Continue reading
A Suzhou Sojourn and a little birding When: September 2019 Weather: Hot 25C Leica Q, Nikon P900 Aspen last week and Suzhou this week…a study in contrasts…flying into Shanghai, Suzhou is … 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
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