When: July 2025 Weather: Warm 27C Nikon P900 Stayed at the Dragon City Novotel Hotel in Seoul for a meeting but there were precious few green patches near the hotel for my usual morning bird ramble….a local friend suggested the … Continue reading
When: July 2025 Weather: Hot 25 to 30C Nikon P900 In Pattaya for 24 hours doing a recce for our meeting here next year, I found Chaloem Phra Kiat Park as my next ‘little patch of green’ birding locations near … Continue reading
When: June 2025 Weather: Hot 25-32C Nikon P900, P950, Leica Q, Leica M11 35 summilux We arrived at the beautiful Lalu Hotel on the northern peninsula of the Sun Moon Lake; so called because part of the lake looks like … Continue reading
When: June 2025 Weather: hot 25C Nikon P900, Nikon P950, Leica M11 35mm summilux After our meeting ended in Taipei, we did the 2.5hour drive up to a birding location, Sun-Link-Sea Forest in Nantou province in the middle of Taiwan, … Continue reading
When: May 2025 Weather: Cold 10-16C Nikon P900 In Melbourne this late autumn for a few days visiting relatives and had time to explore a few local parks and the zoo….I stayed in the Hawthorns on the east side of … Continue reading
When: March 2025 Weather: Cool to Hot 5 to 20C Nikon P900, Leica Q3 There are many youtube videos and posts on climbing Tiger’s Nest or Taktsang as it is locally known. Some are accurate, many are not. Some say … Continue reading
When: March 2025 Weather: Cold to warm! 5-25C NikonP900, Sony A7II 70-400mm, Leica Q3 After our teaching workshop and surgeries in the national referral hospitaln in Thimphu, our next community cataract surgery program was way down in south Bhutan, at … Continue reading
When: March 2025 Weather : Cold 0 to 16C Nikon P900, Leica Q3, SonyA7II 70-400mm 5 years after my last visit for the opening of the new eye hospital, we visited again to do community cataract surgery for about a … Continue reading
When: February 2025 Weather: Cool 12 to 22C Nikon P900 and Sony RX10.4 It was a 2.5 hour drive getting to NE and we arrived in good time for lunch at the lovely hilltop Galway Heights Hotel…again olde world feel … Continue reading
When: February 2025 Weather: Hot 25 to 30C Nikon P900 Sony RX10.4 With 22 out of 35 endemics so far, we were under no illusions that the remaining 14 birds would be easier….so it was that on the third day, … Continue reading
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