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View from a hide. Note
the Chinese city of Shenzen in the distance |
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And a view over the
bay to the same city. Lots of wading birds to see on these mudflats
when the tide is in - apparently! |
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Bird life central! |
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Floating platform -
500 metres long (in total) to get us to the viewpoint above |
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Dragonfly - taken from
about 10 yards away - note the hole in the back right engine!
1/800sec, f8.0, ISO400, 480mm
zoom - and then cropped by about a factor of three! |
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Flying fish! Tended to jump
out of one of the inland lakes every minute or two.
1/1000sec, f10, ISO 400,
480mm zoom. Again, cropped by a factor of 3 - it was just in
the bottom right corner of the original photo. |
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1/500sec, f8, ISO400,
350mm zoom |
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1/100sec, f10, ISO400,
480mm zoom |
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Best two photos of
cormorants zooming along overhead.
1/1000sec, f10, ISO400, 480mm
zoom and cropped by factor of 2 |
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1/1250sec, f8, ISO400,
480mm zoom, cropped by a factor of 3 |
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Cormorants
with the hills of the Hong Kong New Territories in the background |
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White heron
1/1250sec, f8, ISO400, 480mm
zoom, factor of 2 cropping |
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1/800sec, f10, ISO400,
480mm zoom, factor of 2 cropping |
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Cropping possibly taken
too far!
1/2000sec, f10, ISO400, 480mm
zoom, factor of 2.5 cropping |
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1/400sec, f13, ISO400,
480mm zoom, cropped by 2 |
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crab - probably about 4 inches across.
1/640sec, f8, ISO400, 480mm
zoom, cropped by 2.5 |
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4 pictures of Red Kites
(please correct if you think my guess is wrong!)
1/1250sec, f9, ISO400, 480mm
zoom, factor of 3 cropping |
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as per one on the left |
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as per one above |
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as per one to the left
- actually this is taken 1/5 second after the one on the left! |
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This red kite scared
the life out of us as it flew off...judging by its "vapour
trail" it looks like it was more scared than we were!!!
1/800sec, f8, ISO400, 480mm
zoom, factor of 1.5 cropping |
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Perhaps a juvenile
purple heron on the mudflats - but basically I'm stuck as to
what this one is! |
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Bird and dragonfly
480mm zoom, factor of 3 cropping |
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Disgruntled bird and
dragonfly! |
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This and right photo
- of random small birds.
This one is perched on the
fence next to the mangrove swamp - this is in fact the border
fence between Hong Kong and the mainland |
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Shame about the strand
of grass cutting across this chaps face! |
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One of the many wierd
creatures scurrying around on the mud flats. Probably about 6
inches long
1/500sec, f8, ISO100, 480mm
zoom, factor of 2 cropping |
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