endemicguides Birds Report – 2020 Jan : 2 Targets Photography trip

a 3d2n bird special bird photography tour just target for 2 new bird family recent split – Pygmy Cupwing & Crested Shrikejay. As John & Linda working on collecting bird for each family of the world .

*** all bird list with pictures taken

Day1 – drive ~1.5 hour from KL to Fraser Hill . Foggy and very quick we just wait ~2 minute and got the bird and <10 minutes we are ready to leave …

Pygmy Cupwing

Gray-throated Babbler

so immediate without any time waste , we drove ~4.5 hour to our destination to try Shrikejay. But the forest just too quiet, not much activity.

 

Day2 – we arrive same site, and finally we got the Shrikejay very good view but due to cloudy day. light is not good ….

we wait until lunch time and give a try on 2nd spot . We dont have Shrikejay also ..but a

Crested Shrikejay

Brown-chested Jungle-Flycatcher

Rufous-chested Flycatcher

 

Day3- we repeat the Shrikejay searching in the morning for better picture quality . and immediate we arrive our site. less than 10 min, we got the bird for ~a hour and with better lighting .

after the Shrikejay left , we spend little bit time in the forest and we got

Crested Shrikejay

Blue-winged Leafbird

Black-and-red Broadbill

Red-bearded Bee-eater

Banded Kingfisher

Chestnut-breasted Malkoha

Scarlet-rumped Trogon

we had a pair a trogon before lunch time, and we decide leave earlier and if we arrive KL on time we will visit nearby site for Pitta. Whos dont love PITTA 😀

after 4 hour drive, we arrive KL site .Without much wait we got both Hooded Pitta & Blue-winged Pitta

Blue-winged Pitta

Hooded Pitta

Asian Openbill

Panasonic G9 + CANON EF500mm F4 + Viltrox EF-M2II : TEST2 High Resolution

I am trying the setup for weeks, and I want to try some not quite fast moving bird with the “High resolution” mode which blend 8 RAW to single which make 80 MP image(raw)

Lets share one of the picture today ..

1. Hooded Pitta

Panasonic G9+ Viltrox Booster + Canon 500mm F4 IS2

F3.2, 1/160, ISO500 – High Resolution Mode

(Click the image for Full size 10368 × 7776 – slight crop from original)

 

2. Jambu Fruit dove, 粉頭果鳩

this lovely bird is feeding on a tree, managed to captured few with high resolution mode

Panasonic G9+ Viltrox Booster + Canon 500mm F4 IS2

F3.5, 1/200, ISO400 – High Resolution Mode

 

3. the Normal single RAW convert JPEG vs High Resolution JPEG

Panasonic G9 – High Resolution Mode (click the picture for view Original size)

a crop from Photoshop

Panasonic G9 – Normal Mode (click the picture for view Original size)

4. Blue-winged Pitta at High Resolution Mode crop ~45MP

– BG is a stream , so it should have some movement .. so can see some weird effect on the bird reflection portion and some BG area

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