Sungai Sedim Outing

During the Boxing Day weekend, we are delighted to have a group of fellow Singaporean bird photographers came up north to visit Penang. This morning Tsien and I organized an outing to the Sungai Sedim Recreation Park to photograph the low-land forest birds.

Waiting for the Scarlet-rumped Trogon to appear

The Scarlet-rumped Trogon was quite cooperative this morning. A pair responded to our call by perching at a clear perch.

Canon 7D with EF 800 F5.6 IS

ISO 800 1/125 F8

Green Broadbill

Maroon Woodpecker

Rufous Woodpecker (My Photo-Lifer  of the day)

Juv Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker (My Photo-Lifer  of the day)

Hairy-becked Bulbul (My Photo-Lifer  of the day)

We finished the photography session at noon and started to unpack the gear. 

Posting for group photo

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Pheasant-Tailed Jacana

This morning at Byram I managed to get the Pheasant-tailed Jacana in a non-breeding plumage. It is my photo-lifer. It perched quite far away from my shooting location, even with Canon 800mm F5.6 IS, the size of the subject looked very small inmy Canon 7D sensor. I have to crop away 2/3 to make the subject look big.

Canon 7D, EF 800 F5.6 IS mounted on Kirk Window Mount.

ISO 800 F8 1/2000

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The Beauty of Early Morning Light

This morning the light was perfect at Byram. The warm morning light shone on the surface of the pond.

A Chinese Pond Heron perched on a dead tree at the middle of the pond. The reflection of the sun light gave a golden reflection on the subject.

"New Hair Style" of the Chinese Pond Heron

Canon 7D EF800 F5.6 IS

1/1000s f/8.0 at 800.0mm ISO400

After photographing the Heron, I saw a Common Moorhen busy cleaning her feather after taking a dip into the pond. A photo lifer for me because I had not captured any photos of this species before. I dial up the ISO of my 7D to 640 so that I can use faster shutter speed to freeze the motion of the subject.

1/1000s f/8.0 at 800.0mm ISO 640

I was using a new CF with my 7D. The 16G SanDisk Extreme Pro was working flawlessly with 7D. The file transfer rate of the new card is really smooth even though I was shooting raw format with 8 fps rate. I shoot about 4 G of raw files images of the Common Moorhen and Pond Heron.

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