
Pantanal 4: Of Motmots and men When: November 2019 Weather: Hot 25-35C Nikon P900. Leica M10P 35mm Summilux. Canon 5D One of the endearing things about birding in Brazil is the utterly … Continue reading
Pantanal 4: Of Motmots and men When: November 2019 Weather: Hot 25-35C Nikon P900. Leica M10P 35mm Summilux. Canon 5D One of the endearing things about birding in Brazil is the utterly … Continue reading
Pantanal 3: The Howler Monkey Tower at Araras Eco Lodge (Long post) When: November 2019 Weather: Hot 25-30C One of the things we were looking forward to was to visit the observation tower about a 20 … Continue reading
Pantanal 2: Cruising the Rio Clara and the road there…. When: November 2019 Weather: Hot 25-30C Nikon P900. Leica M10P 35 summilux. The good thing about the Araras Eco Lodge is that it is set in grounds in which … Continue reading
Pantanal 1: The Transpantaneira to Araras Eco Lodge When: November 2019 Weather: hot 35C Nikon P900, Leica M10P 35mmSummilux In Sao Paulo for a meeting and took a week off to visit some of the most well known nature … Continue reading
Birding on the Wangchu or Thimphu Chu, Bhutan When: October 2019 Weather: Cool 10C Leica M10P 35mm Summilux, Nikon P900, Sony alpha55 70-200mm G lens The last time I was here in Bhutan, we stayed at the Druk … Continue reading
Chelela Pass revisited: Warning: Long Post with lots of pictures When: October 2019 Weather: Cold to Cool. 7-20C from daybreak till the afternoon Leica M10P 35mm Summilux, Nikon P900, Sony Alpha55 with 70-200mmG lens … Continue reading
Birding on the River Oi, Arishiyama, Kyoto When: October 2019 Weather: warm 20C Nikon P900, Leica M240 35 Summilux. Birding in the bamboo forest of Arashiyama had been disappointing…too much foliage and too many … Continue reading
Arashiyama : The Bamboo Forest & the Sagano Romantic Railway When: October 2019 Weather: Warm 20C Leica M10P, Leica Q Leica Monochrom After a successful 32nd APACRS meeting in Kyoto, we took a break and spent two … Continue reading
My Nikon P900 finally died When: July 2018, October 2019 My favourite birding camera, the Nikon P900 which I bought at launch in early 2015 has finally died 😦 I had been using a Lumix FZ200 previously and it was … Continue reading
Birding in the Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris
When: September 2019 Weather: Warm: 20C
Leica M10P 35mm Summilux Nikon P900
We chose to stay at the Hotel Sainte Beuve a little boutique hotel on line 12 leading to the Porte de Versailles Paris Expo convention centre for our meeting. Fortuitously, the Jardin de Luxembourg was right on our doorstep just a few minutes walk away. On our last day, we managed to head there at daybreak ….