Moving to another page for more utilities

Hi there,
First of all I would like to apologize for not posting a blog for such a long time. I was busy with works to do, the more important thing is I was moving this blog to another page on tumblr that you can see my works there with more photos, more information about my Individual Projects.

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A short trip to Van Long

Recently, I had chance to visit Van Long Nature Reserve in Ninh Binh province. This tranquil reserve comprises a reedy wetland ideal for bird-watching. Very rare black-faced spoonbill, cotton pygmy goose and white-browed crake have been seen here and the reserve is also one of the last refuges of the endangered Delacour’s langur.
I just stayed in VanLong for around 4 hours so I didnt have chance to take a boat to deep inside the reserve. Bad weather, shy animal, but in nearly 4 hours I got some shots as we can see below:

A flock of white storks

 

A Common KingFisher

A flying Common Buzzard

A purple Heron in flight

White-Browed Crake

In this year I'll going to try more with this interesting place and hope I can bring more photos and information to you :) Thanks for reading!

The conflict for landing place of Black-faced Spoonbills

The Black-faced Spoonbill spent most time of the day perched on the mangrove trees, but strong winds from the ocean (Haiyan Typhoon was coming) used to make them unstable and have to change their landing place. So that the conflict amongs thems is usual to take a stable shelter, even sometimes they stand on another's back or head. Here are some photos about what happened. 
Cò mỏ thìa dành phần lớn thời gian trong ngày nghỉ ngơi trên những cành đước ở khu sinh thái ngập mặt. Nhưng những cơn gió biển mạnh trước ngày bảo Hải Yến đổ bộ thường làm bọn này lắc lư không ngừng và đôi khi phải bay nhảy lên kiếm chỗ đậu khác ổn định hơn. Theo như quan sát thì mình thấy có một cuộc cạnh tranh giữa những cá thể trong đàn để giành nhau chỗ đậu, đôi khi chúng còn giẫm lên lưng, lên đầu những con khác. Dưới đây là một số hình ảnh về những gì đã diễn ra mà mình chụp được. 

Resting on the mangrove trees

Sleeping or doing spoonbill's job...

A Spoonbill got unstable when facing a strong wind. Its wing was touching the other on the left

Immediately, the one who've been touch peck back with its spoonbill.

Another same scenes

After being hit, he jumped on another's back to another branch.

And flew to find another stable place to landing, but it was hard to do. Especially when the others weren't comfortable

So he decided to do it his way. He landed on another's back and tried to peck him.

But maybe the back of another still not stable enough to land so he was take off again and flew away...

After a minute, when moving to the another position for a better view very slowly, I suddenly fell down and make a big noise. After that, they are all took off and flew away. What a shame to me... 

This weekend I'll be there again to have more chance to learn about their habitat, behavior and looking for more better pictures. Anyone wanna join me? 
Enjoy,
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Black-Faced Spoonbill in Vietnam

I had a chance to see Black-faced Spoonbill which is a  winter migrator in Vietnam,  It's an endangered species (Current IUCN Red List category).
As a report of IUCN, the Black-Faced Spoonbill population as of 2012 census was recorded at 2,693 birds, with an estimation of 1,600 mature birds all around the world.
And there were 20 of them when I came Xuan Thuy Nature reserve. A staff of Xuan Thuy Nature reserve told me there were 39 last year so there are some more of them are coming. And here, we had a pic of flying Black-faced Spoonbill:

As I observed , they spent most time of the day perched on the mangrove trees in protected areas. Especially in these days of bad weather. During the time keep stay on mangrove trees, I saw an intersting behavior of them that I'm going to tell in next post :)
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Photo of the October :)

I had an amazing short trip at 5th October. After that I had to back to work, then I dont have much time to choose which photo I like best in the October.
My favourite photo of the October is a shot with an White-Vented Myna, an common bird. It was a round 5-6pm, when I was in my tend, he just landed beside me and started to ruffed feathers againts the first cold winter wind. And I got the shot, here we are:

 The second shot will be awesome if I keep calm and adjust the compotition ... That was a fail one haizzz... after this shot, the bird flew away and I missed the shot

Tomorrow, I'll get a 4 days trip again, and hope to have some good shots.
Enjoy :)
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