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101. Common Hoopoe, 戴胜, 戴勝, Upupa epops, ヤツガシラ

 

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101. Common Hoopoe, 戴胜, 戴勝, Upupa epops, ヤツガシラ

update 202601

Surprised that I haven’t shared this beautiful yet very common bird before. I’ve photographed it in many places—Malaysia (Kuala Gula, Kota Kinabalu), South Africa, Thailand, Kenya, and China.

This time was special, as it was the closest encounter so far. The bird was feeding right outside our hotel and wasn’t bothered at all, even when we got quite close.

有点惊讶自己之前竟然没分享过这只既美丽又常见的鸟。我在很多地方都拍过它——马来西亚(瓜拉古拉、哥打京那巴鲁)、南非、泰国、肯尼亚和中国。

不过这一次真的很特别,这是我拍过距离最近的一次。它就在我们酒店外觅食,即使我们靠得很近,也完全不受影响。

202601, Dali, Yunnan, China

 

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Troglodytidae series | 鹪鹩科 | liewwk Nature – 1 [update 20260125]

 

a tiny active bird, remember my first encounter and record picture was ~2013

1. Eurasian Wren, 鹪鹩, 鷦鷯, Troglodytes troglodytes, ミソサザイ

 

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1. Eurasian Wren, 鹪鹩, 鷦鷯, Troglodytes troglodytes, ミソサザイ

update 202601

It was a freezing morning at around –6°C. We went to Napa Lake mainly to revisit some good memories from years ago. After waiting for a beautiful sunrise, I was almost ready to return to the car when I suddenly heard a bird calling very close by. The bird stayed low to the ground, barely moving—likely due to the cold—with ice clearly visible around it.

I managed to capture some close shots, and that moment became the happiest highlight of this casual, relaxing trip to Yunnan.

清晨气温低至约零下 6°C。这次只是来到纳帕海,重温多年前到访时的美好回忆。看完日出后,正准备返回车上时,突然听到附近传来鸟叫声。那只鸟几乎贴近地面,一动不动,应该是因为天气太冷,周围还能看到结冰的痕迹。

能够近距离拍到它,成了这趟云南轻松休闲之旅中最开心、最难忘的时刻。

202601, Napa Lake, Yunnan

 

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Birds of China – Sichuan | 中國 – 四川 | liewwk Nature

another collection of Birds of China

1. Tibetan Snowcock, 藏雪鸡, 藏雪雞, Tetraogallus tibetanus, チベットセッケイ

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1. Tibetan Snowcock, 藏雪鸡, 藏雪雞, Tetraogallus tibetanus, チベットセッケイ

– Smaller than Himalayan snowcock, this species has a grey head and neck with a white patch behind the eye and above the dark cheek. Chin, throat and breast are white, with two grey bands on the breast. Grey wing coverts and tertials have a white trim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_snowcock

– 中等体型(53厘米)灰、白及皮黄色雪鸡。头、胸及枕部灰,喉白,眉苍白,白色耳羽有时染皮黄色,胸两侧具白色圆形斑块。眼周裸露皮肤橘黄。两翼具灰色及白色细纹,尾灰且羽缘赤褐。下体苍白,有黑色细纹。色彩较淡、皮黄色较浅的东部亚种。

虹膜-深褐;嘴-黄色;脚-红色
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201612, Sichuan, China

 

 

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Gruidae series | 鹤科 | liewwk Nature – 2 [update 20250121]

no crane in Malaysia , so everytime we birding at North. Crane sure our first target to be seen ..

1. Black-necked Crane, 黑颈鹤, 黑頸鶴, Grus nigricollis, オグロヅル

2. Gray Crowned-Crane, 灰冕鹤, 灰冠鶴, Balearica regulorum, ホオジロカンムリヅル

 

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1. Black-necked Crane, 黑颈鹤, 黑頸鶴, Grus nigricollis, オグロヅル

– not a lifer , saw it at Qinghai 2016 but without any long len ..

finally see it clear and photograph well this time at Shangri-la

 

2. Gray Crowned-Crane, 灰冕鹤, 灰冠鶴, Balearica regulorum, ホオジロカンムリヅル

 

update 202501

This bird is incredibly beautiful, and while we may have seen it before in a zoo or bird park, spotting it in the wild and capturing its photo brings an entirely different level of excitement. Though it’s considered a common species, we only managed to see it 3-4 times during our 18 days of birding in South Africa.

这是一种非常美丽的鸟,尽管我们可能在动物园或鸟园里见过,但在野外看到并拍下它的照片,带来的兴奋感完全不同。虽然它被认为是常见的物种,但在我们南非18天的观鸟过程中,也只见到了3-4次。

202501 Sani Pass, South Africa

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liewwkNature Photohunters : 2017 Oct – The Golden Sichuan , CHINA

Finally I am free to sit down for get more pictures done …

again 2017 Oct  we revisit the beautiful Sichuan for Golden Sichuan , for overall we were lucky to have various different weather, view etc …

Day 1 Chengdu –> Kanding

we arrive Chengdu immediate we travel to Kanding for nearer to next destination and also ease ourself with high altitude . (~3000 masl )

whole day raining, and we do believe at higher altitude locations should be snow and we expected to see snow view tomorrow .

 

Day 2 Kanding – ShanMuJu

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along the road we had very good view as usual, but it is just a start . the snow almost 6-10 inch thick, the roadside view still look amazing

折多山

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Day 3 ShanMuju

Our tour main target , Mount Mount Gongga (Minya Konka) Sichuan highest mountain ~7556masl … at here we got few viewpoint see it really close

– this what we saw, when we first reach to the viewpoint 1 .

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before anyone can response the beautiful view, think everyone stand still for this view for ~5-10 minutes … it is good though as we shouldn’t move much at this altitude (~4500masl).

a small slope , but not easy to walk

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the view of the Mount Gongga sunrise … we just WOW WOW

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and the surrounding view

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we walk ~1.8km for the beautiful lake .

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it can be lovely view for the lake .. but need to be early. this is reflection for the Mount Gongga

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a special view with drone

 

after the lovely sunrise with snow view, very soon we go to view point 2 for sunset … here have more tourist due to much easier access

子梅垭口

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Day 4 TaGong

雅哈垭口

we continue our next destination but passing by this amazing view and spend sometime here as someone wish to challenge to hike up to highest point of view which look 70-80 degree for 500 meter up 😀

the beautiful Gongga Mountain range ..  we were at ~4500m asl

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after the beautiful view, we heading Tagong , the cloudy day do not stop us to go wait for sunset.

it show us a amazing view of the snow peak !!! red blood color

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than we hit into 2 days snow

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after 2 days struggle with snow .  beside the Mount Yala, there is a beautiful lovely river with mani stones

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Day 6 TaiZhangGou

台站沟

my favor spot for Sichuan .. very lovely and we are really close to the Mount Yala

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Day 7

Day 8 小金, 四姑娘山

– we spend quite bad weather here only one amazing sunset at a very old spot we went few years ago by horse and now we found actually we can drive up … !!!!! and the dusk full with colors

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liewwkNature Photohunters : 2017 Jul – Sichuan , CHINA

Just completed our another Photohunters trip to Sichuan … *** will update the route ASAP ..

from the beginning, our main target is Mount Gongga from various direction …

let’s start

update 2017 Jul 19

a lovely day, we welcome with beautiful open Mount Gongga which same as other high peak.. it is seldom open for us to see ..

make use of Lee Filter GND .45h to balance to sky part and CPL to enhance the reflection on lake

2017 Jul 11

liewwk Mount Gongga

Day 1 – KanDing

we try to make everyone get use to the high altitude so we stop at Kanding … we had our great pizza, beer, steak etc here 😀

Day 2 – 上木居

While our way to the destination, many beautiful stops but raining non stop so we can;t make any stop.

Here is our main destination, for Mount Gongga .

OHHHH . bad new hit … whole village no electricity supply !!! and it is still raining and cold

 

Day 3 – 子梅垭口

what a surprise ,  snow near our shooting ground . and the Mount Gongga is cover by snow and mist.

update 2017 Jul 12

子梅垭口 - 贡嘎山 1
on the way up
子梅垭口 - 贡嘎山 2
shy Mount Gongga ..
子梅垭口 - 贡嘎山 3
still waiting

 

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6 丹巴

a lovely place, 2nd visit but first visit is like been cheated …

update 2017 JUL 13

丹巴 日落

 

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liewwkNature Photohunters : 2016 Jul Sichuan, Qinghai , CHINA

A 12 days liewwk Nature Photohunters to Sichuan, Qinghai – CHINA … we mostly passing by and surrounding with glass land , and out main targets are Qinghai Lake and Chaka Salt Lake … both locate Qinghai Province .

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Lets start with group picture at one of our main targets/hunting ground 😀  .. Qinghai Lake & Chaka Salt Lake

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So far, we only had 1 day full raining day happen at Hongyuan County which we should look for sunset , reflection for river curves ….. too bad we didn’t able to capture anything as raining non stop for 14 hours

update 2020 April 4

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update 2016 Aug 24

one of the most memorise sunrise ever have … we actually stuck in jam to enter this place for >30min for less than 1 hr .. and we witness this beautiful sunrise together >1000 people together sharing the same view of sunrise

update 2016 Aug 23

– Zhagana, 扎尕那 a small village locate Gansu (甘肃) … the village locate surrounding with rocky mountains giving amazing view of sunrise .. with rays in

– beautiful location where it is not tourist spot, we were happy to witness beautiful rays too at this spot

update 2016 Aug 20

– a full pano Milky way at Chaka Salt lake , with the refection and without pano head make this slikt difficult .. but finally i able to make this

update 2016 Aug 15

– Chaka Lake, Qinghai, China

when dawn everyone looking at west direction I am with another photographer attract by light from East

 

– our main target location, Chaka Salt Lake famous with reflection … beside full sky mirror … we target clouds reflection, sunset, milky way… and this is an extra the ray appear only for few of my shots while I try to capture the photographer in action. very abnormal as this was capture 8pm at East direction which sun is opposite of this …

update 2016 Aug 6

– misty morning at HongYuan

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Conclusion of the tour , we see various different environments, (glass land, mountain, biggest lake for CHINA, salt lake, glass land mountains etc)

 

We walk a lot due to the design of the park, shooting at odd hours …. But every walk , reward us with beautiful view so everyone no complaint on the walking (longest one way walk is 3.8km)

 

update 2016 Aug 6

– one of the most clear sunrise , and it is special moment we witness this sunrise together with >1000 peoples together 😀

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– Qinghai Lake , Canola flowers 油菜花

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– Glassland along the travel .. this was capture in the bus while travelling

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– one of the most beautiful spot .. village with rocky mountain surround . we were lucky managed to witness beautiful sunrise, sunset and rainbow here just for 1 night stay

扎尕那 (zhagana)

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– woke up earlier , stand in he cold …. and before the sun came out . my gang wonder why we wait as the view just so so .. the mountain dark off , sky just clear …. …. I keep tell wait wait (with worry) I believe with the mountain shape it should have light ray shine out … and when this show up everyone wow plus the mist just keep pop out from the village …

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– Chaka Salt Lake 茶卡盐湖 - main target of the outing , we spent 2 days here … lovely sunset, milky way etc ..

– mirror of the sky show reflection from the lake

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– night sky even beautiful with all stars on the lake

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liewwkNature Photohunter : 2016 Jan JiuZhaiGou , CHINA

Back from CHINA and too busy for other work .. and now only able to download the pictures and will share more info here later . but let’s share the beautiful view of this place .

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– it is a reason why I share this map with extra location as we going to explore further

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We spent 4 days in the park and beautiful colorful lake, river, waterfall with ice … the weather is acceptable cold but not really in extreme …

update 2016 Feb 13

a view that make me confuse , not sure what to capture .. the reflection or the clear water … and finally decide not to use any CPL to have both …

update 2016 Jan 29

  • one of the beautiful lake with dry-death tree, moving source water-still , dark-colorful/bright
from dark-bright, black-colorfull, move-still, live-dead ... [HAIDA CPL, HAIDA ND .9 , LEE Filter GND .45h]
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… 齐拜佛光 …

Few nearby tourist locations, I didn’t make all to all the spots as my visit is mainly for photography.

A complex national park , I spent few day to understand the only wulinyuAn pArk.

Buses to different location the interlink need walking and by between the busstop the rod is exist . and no idea why they never make it interlink more convenient

Many walking for bus –elevator interchange (200-400m) . and it is not photography friendly , most of the bus start service 8-830m – 6pm only (sunrise 720m) [someone told me it is due to off peak season and I will check peak season or normal season bus operation hour] so if want to shoot sunrise/sunset need special arrange with extra payment

 

This trip mainly concentrate on wulingyuan which mainly divide by 3 parts YuanJiaJie, (袁家界) Yang JiaJie (杨家界)and TianZhiSan (天子山)

 

Every session need travel by bus, and each part consist few specify beautiful attractions … and mostly walking distance 10-90min with rock broadwalk (up and down and some could be steep) . again most of the spot with different name which need our imagination to match the view and the “rock” appearance .

 

After few days inside the park, we visit many different spots and for me it is just still rocky mountains … but for photography with the pattern and light direction (I didn’t have chance to see any snow, misty) .. we have many oppurnity  to  create some pictures .

 

Food … amazing nice local food by the homestay owner and KFC and McD (McCafe too) available .

 

I stay at a homestay which I think strategy location for no special arrangement for sunrise/sunset. As this location walking distance can shoot sunrise/sunset with rocky mountains  even it is not really the beautiful formation. This homestay owner is a retire teacher who also drawing, photograph … and it share his experience, view about “art” (not only drawing and photograph) … cook us a wonderful chicken soup dinner with his white wine collection (have a good sleep after that 😀 )

 

He has similar thought as mine ..  he say .. a good artist (for photography/drawing) need 3 main “GOOD” [好]

Good View – 好景

Good food – 好吃

Good Person – 好人

He also share what he mean for landscape view and art view (大景与小景) and why do we need balance between to for his point of art … I learn a lot from he and his friend who spend >10 years on CHINA mainland landscape photography .

 

Overall a place need luck , skill, arrangement, experience , stamina and ect  to get this place photograph …

update 2018 June 28

from 2018 CHINA, HUNAN Photohunters tour

this is a long wait of 1.5 day, finally the moment waiting is come… we actually rush, ran , to this spot but the view keep changing for us another 1 hour ++ think everyone should be have good time here

update 2018 June 24

just got back from 2018 CHINA, HUNAN Photohunters tour

13 photographers with almost all famous brand in the world (absent of LEICA and NIKON) enjoy the boring wait and excitement of sudden misting moment

update 2016 Jan 11

  • a beautiful moment

 

… 佛光亮稀雾 | Misty ROL …

update 2015 Dec 21

  • near YuanJiaJie , I was resting and shooting some bird with 70300 . suddenly I saw clouds building up and I ran back to room and ran for nearer spot for the clouds and sun direction .. and I found this. the shooting spot is very narrow and only one camera allow here
… 腾云驾雾遇佛光 …

 

update 2017 Nov 24

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