As I mentioned earlier we managed to find another (or rather my driver did)Orang-Utanbefore we had even stepped foot in the luxurious surroundings of theBorneo Rainforest Lodgein the lush jungle of Danum Valley. Here is a picture of the young red ape, along with a photo of our first maleBornean Blue Flycatcher. Turned out to be good for both these in Danum which were seen again repeatedly over our 4 night stay there. AGreat-billed Heron rounded out the day at Danum, post a good tropical storm. Visible from the lodge!
More from Danum (which might explain my title shot) to come...
A pair of tits (Blue and Great) in a London park 30 years back changed my life; I became a birder, and an obsessive birder by the following weekend. Works like Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book and Richard Millington's A Twitcher's Diary helped in no small part to nurture this in my formative years.
30 years on I am still an avid birder but have also learnt to appreciate other sectors of the natural world, especially frogs and primates in particular, through the undoubted influence of David Attenborough The Great and others. I now work as a full-time professional tour leader for Tropical Birding Tours, and now reside in the Andes of Ecuador. I love my job, sharing birds with people provides every bit of a buzz as a lifebird, which, of course, still creates a wave of excitement every time. I have been lucky enough to see well over 6550 bird species on my travels, which does not make me any more talented than anyone else, just one that is always greedy and impatient for more, which has taken me to all seven continents, and always yearning for that ONE...MORE...B-I-R-D!
I use Swarovski binoculars & scope, & shoot with Canon 7D and Canon 400m f5.6L lens.
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Clouded Leopard ? More please !
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