EricB 23/12/2012 05:25
Sulawesi & Halmahera
Just a short note about a recent trip with my brother to Sulawesi and Halmahera in November.
We had an excellent guide , Nurlin Djuni, who runs Malia tours. [url]http://www.maliatours.com[/url]
It’s an eco friendly set up where they cross refer within the region to other team members in Bali/Sumatra/Java etc..
The highlights were the Standardwing, 15 species of Kingfisher , a good number of night birds and over 100 endemics. Nurlin brought us to a new Standardwing site, Weda Diving resort, where there were about 6-8 males and a couple of females. The birds are a 10-15 minute drive and 10-15 minute walk from the accommodation. The display area was about 40metres off the ground but on one occasion a fighting pair of males fell out of the trees and continued to fight it out about 5-8 metres away, unfortunately they were impossible to photograph on the forest floor without a flash. Here ‘s a photo by a keen photographer taken at this site about a year earlier. [url]http://www.wildborneo.com.my/blog/?p=156[/url]
Nurlin has over 18 years experience as a bird leader and can tailor trips to peoples needs. He has led for VENT, Rockjumper, Birdtour Asia etc..
Not sure how you manage to load up more than a couple of highly compressed photos!I'll try to load more once the system allows me.
Eric
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Green Backed Kingfisher ISO 2500 f6.3 0.4s
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Scaly Kingfisher ISO 1000 f 7.1 1/30th
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aaukie 23/12/2012 16:50
[font=Arial]I love Kingfisher so much!
Many thanks for our information shared and looking forward to view more stunning photos of the birds!!! [/font]
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tomatofamily 23/12/2012 18:48
To display more photos, I recently found the better way. First you find ways to store your photos in the web. I have a Dropbox account, which is free for some space. So, I put photos into public folder; and I see my jpg photos there. Right click each photo each time and copy the public link. Then inside this window, I write [img][/img](paste the public url link between [img][/img]) and enter (you put the name of the bird before the script [img][/img] to display the name of the bird. You can display as many photos as you can, I assume.
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EricB 24/12/2012 06:29
Many thanks for that advice.I'll try to set that up once I have a little more time.
Meanwhile,here are 2 more compressed images.
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Satanic or Diabolical Nightjar
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Sulawesi Masked Owl
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EricB 25/12/2012 10:09
Spectral Tarsier ISO 800 f 7.1 1/4s
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Sulawesi Crested Black Macque ISO 2500 f 5.6 1/100s
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Hmmm. Didn't quite do what I wanted it to!
Here's my effort of the Birds of Paradise
Iso 2000 f5.6 1/320s
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and the rarely photographed Minahassa Masked Owl
ISO 4000 f5.6 1/8s
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Try this link for the bigger files [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyeneed2bird/8305915702/in/set-72157632334865622/.]http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyeneed2bird/8305915702/in/set-72157632334865622/.[/url]
I can't get my head round peoples instructions to post bigger images! Thanks for trying anyway.
E
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