Since I want to return to Guangzhou for work, my friend decided to go to the white bird pond in the morning and return to Guangzhou at noon. We still agreed to go to Xiao Chen's boss's farm breakfast at 6:00 in the morning, or drive our own old MaiTeng to the concentrator to stop, take a Guangzhou enthusiastic bird friend's Buick GL8 to bird pond, the chassis is higher, but still in a section of the road, the chassis and the stone bulging in the middle of the road have a fierce collision, we had to get off the car to let the car pass and then get on the car to pass, it seems that GL8 is not suitable for the passage of this road. After arriving at the parking spot, I quickly ran to the white bird shooting spot with my equipment on my back, giving a place for my friend and the Guangzhou bird friend who brought us, the bird shed here is not numbered, first come, first served.
At about 7:00 a.m., after arriving at the white bird shooting site, there was no longer my place except for the position of friends and old bird friends. Boss Xiao Chen had to arrange me to a separate position at the front and set up a separate "elegant seat" for me, which was closer to the location where the white bird often came out. Everything is the same as yesterday afternoon when shooting, the first thing that came out was the gray-backed swallowtail, but this time it was two, I don't know if it was one, they have bright coat color, life is moist and interesting, they look round and rolling, and they have white bugs in their mouths, it seems that this is indeed a blessed place for swallowtail life.
Grey-backed swallowtail (couple)
Squirrel (gourmet)
Or the squirrels came out first to eat the golden corn on the platform, and the black and bright eyes looked around from time to time, and the vigilance was very high. Boss Xiao Chen said that there were originally 6 squirrels here, and then 2 were captured by the eagle, leaving only 4 left. Don't look at the squirrels enjoying the corn safely on the stone platform, in fact, they are also risking their lives. When shooting today, we also found two large eagles flying rapidly over the stream a few meters above the stream, planning to catch squirrels, and adult white storks are not threatened by eagles because of their large size.
White Oriole (Span)
White Oriole (Old Cock)
White Oriole (fledgling)
White Oriole (Seeking)
At about 7:55 a.m., the squirrels that were eating corn on the platform suddenly turned away, and as we all know, the white storks were coming, and they immediately entered the shooting state, and those who were ready to fight the flying version were even more like a big enemy. Soon, the white stork appeared, but in the opposite direction of yesterday afternoon, emerging from the other side of the stream, and then taking off quickly and flying to the round stone platform on the nearest side, where the owner of the pond also placed corn kernels. I also learned to play the flying version, but due to the equipment, it was not very clear.
The white orioles came in a row, about 5 minutes or so, and left after eating enough. Another wave, continue to eat, the next one, from the tail point of view, is not yet the old rooster, the tail of the long tail has not yet grown, the wings are not yet abundant, the older come out first, the young come out later, which is the opposite of the habits of the buzzard, different birds have different ways of doing things. The two waves of birds lasted about 15 minutes, and after half an hour or so, no more white birds appeared. About half of the people in the bird pond had just arrived yesterday, and this morning they came to photograph the white orioles, and after photographing the white storks, these people began to move the battlefield to photograph the buzzards and the three treasure birds. I also evacuated the White Stork Pond and moved to the Buzzard Pond to try my luck and see if I could photograph the eight-colored owl this morning.
Arrived at the chicken pond, we took the GL8 Guangzhou bird friends also transferred over, he is also going to return to Guangzhou at noon today, we set up a camera in the chicken pond, began to shoot, the chicken and the eight-colored bird sub-adult bird is still very active, often come out to look for food, unfortunately, the scene light is too dark, the photo noise taken is too large. This bird friend, patted for a while, suddenly got up and walked up the hillside, about 20 minutes later, this benevolent brother held a huge flashlight, the lamp head part and the adult's head the same size, and then placed in front of the bird shed, said that he was ready to fill the bird pond, he pointed the flashlight at the stone in the center of the bird pond, a blue and white LED cold light source shot straight out, the bird pond instantly became dazzling, hit a white-throated buzzard standing in the middle of the bird pond stone, the coat color of the buzzard chicken has a sense of coldness, and the eyes become bright and energetic.
White-throated buzzard
Eight-colored thrush
An eight-colored bird appeared on the side, and quickly shot the light source at it, just like the model took a picture, the chiaroscuro contrast suddenly increased a lot, and the black eyes appeared brighter and brighter. At this time, I understood why some bird friends can shoot beautiful "blockbusters", and it turns out that some special methods of shooting light fillers are also applied. I have to admire this benevolent brother for his perseverance and creativity. The time entered more than 10:00, the sun began to rise slowly, occasionally through the gaps in the bamboo forest to the ground, the bird pond illumination suddenly increased a lot, in the illumination and large flashlight to fill the light under the blessing, the bird photos taken out of the noise is much less, the details are very good.
As the sun gradually rises, it has begun to shine a large area into the middle of the bird pond, and the two kinds of "pond bullies" of this bird pond have begun to become active, first of all, the eight-colored plover, which began to stand on the stone in a daze to enjoy the sun bath, and the white-throated buzzard chicken has opened its wings, pretending to be fierce like an eagle swooping down, drying its wings.
Eight-colored plover (pecking)
White-throated buzzard (look around)
White-throated buzzard (spread its wings to dry)
chameleon
Another alternative star in the bird pond, the chameleon, also came out to catch the scene, lying on the dead tree stumps, proudly raising his head, enjoying the sun scattered in the forest, declaring to us that this was his territory and that no one else could touch it.
The time passed quickly, and it was noon in a flash, and the simple wife of The little boss Brought us lunch. The food here is well prepared and cooked. Cantonese people are foodies, natural cooking skills to be smarter, lunch made of small melon fried meat, eat is also tasteful, almost all people have swept away the meal, still not exhausted. After lunch, friends also rushed back from the White Stork Pond, and the White Stork has not been here since the past before and after 8 a.m. The biggest gain of friends here is to photograph a snake swimming around the squirrel, I don't know if it is also the idea of playing a squirrel. We held out until about 1:00 p.m., when we left the pond and took Boss Xiao Chen's mini-car back to the concentrator and back to my Magotan car. At the bottom of the valley of the rice pond, the woods are dense, and I do not feel the intensity of the sun and the sweltering heat of the weather, and after coming to the concentrator, I feel what is the hot summer sun.
The Hunan bird friend with the driver could not stand the heat, directly parked the jeep next to the dune where the hummingbird was located, and sat in the air-conditioned car and squatted. We asked him how the results were, and he said he had been here a few times, but he hadn't filmed well, and it looked like he would come back a few more times. We took a brief look and thought it was too hot, so it was better to return to Guangzhou. Driving in turn all the way back, the sky is clear, and looking at the surrounding scenery is also one of the great pleasures of bird watching and bird watching.