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The bird with a beautiful back end and an ugly front end! Helmeted Hornbills are about the most difficult hornbill to photograph, so I was quite pleased with the few shots it let me take before flying off deeper into the forest.
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On the point of take-off. Big isn't he!
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"Beautification" work continues at the Gap, with a crass and totally superfluous suspension bridge now slung across the gully in front of the guest house, which is still - 3 years on - undergoing 'renovations'. The bamboo was flowering, but Black-crested Bulbuls were the only birds brave enough to put up with the noise of the generator.
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Who knows?! Some very pale-rumped swiftlets viewed from High Pines. Germain's are the common lowland species; it seems odd if these are also Germain's over montane forest - but then it's probably not so far as the swiftlet flies from the nearest lowland swiftlet hotel.
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On our first day we were greeted in the afternoon with the first rain they'd had for over a week!
1 comment:
impressive hornbill! nice shot
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