Shear delight

A long day on a boat today along with 20 other birders, many finer photographers than I......... John Holmes, Martin Hale, Pippen Ho, Hendrix - all top notch HK photographers. It was hot but we managed to find (thanks Mike) Short-tailed shearwater, a tick for me and the subject of my middle three images. Go to the pbase site for better quality. This is not a common bird and I was pleased with the pics though others will have better ones. The White-winged terns are just stunning and the Yellow bitterns unusually open - normally they skulk. So a splendid day on the water with a couple of hours on Po Toi. Great stuff.

It's a fair cop

Over a month without a post. But I have been to Karachi (like Bombay but with more guns), Singapore, London and Po Toi....... so I have a reasonable excuse. Some nice images of moth-heads, macro shots with my 180mm f3.5. Just for Fumie, 2 images of insects in the act of copulation, a rather nice Greater crusted tern (or 'crested' as the pedants would have it) and some beetley things on some flowery stuff. I am not a botanist.

Don't expect much more frequency in the near future. I am off to Singapore again on Monday then in June Mrs. Ha and I are set to invade Italia for a couple of weeks or so. Florence ("time for bed, said Zebedee"), Venice and Rome. Yawn. I shall be all cultured out when we get back. In the meantime, look after the bugs etc. fo me.