Formosa Birding

Formosa Birding - 黃金港埠 - Enkhuizen, the Netherlands

2007-11-28T23:38:00.000+08:00

Formosa Birding - 黃金港埠 - Enkhuizen, the Netherlands: "口藍黃相間的美麗景緻, 這年頭整"

Great Cormorant at Au-Ku wetland

2006-11-03T23:12:00.000+08:00

TheGreat Cormorant

Remember last winter at Kinmen, the inbound Great Cormorant lined up as a "V" shape, then landed on the Tze lake and the famous "bird tree". It's really beautiful scenery in the dawn.

I went to Au-Ku wetland last weekend, where I seldom had some surprise over there. It's a great day before the cold winter coming, and I found that there's lots of great Cormorant that day,
and I took tons of shot with this black and not-so-beautiful Cormorant this time.

Whole bunch of Cormorants fly in

They love to fly beneath the water like they are hiding the redar detection

Great Cormorant prefer to land on the lone branch for some sun bath, but there's alway less places for all of them.

So sometime they have to fight for the comfort place

At last, you can find some funny behaviors that I took from those Cormorant.....

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2006-10-26T09:14:00.000+08:00

Every September, in the water area named Kwan-Shin, where is a small village on the way to Wu-Lai, you will no doubt find the circling Osprey around that area.

We'd like to recording as much as we can of the Osprey that living in that area, no matter it's stay there over years or just migrated here for cold winter up north. The newly built water-side trail let us have the better chances to watch it diving for fish, and get clearer photos, it would be a great place for a easy weekend journey for birding in the outskirts of the city.

Well, most of my friends from my hometown like those photos with green or water background than the circling one up from the sky, how do you think of that?

If you would like to visit those Osprey, just take the route to Wu-Lai and make a right turn once you find a gas station on your right, where you will find a bridge across the green river, that's where people call it "swallow lake", even it's not really a lake. Anyway, follow the road sign that marked " club 3" while you across the bridge, or just go right all the way.....you will find this unique and wonderful Osprey sky.

Gray-faced buzzard Eagle -Kenting

2006-10-13T20:00:00.000+08:00

Gray-faced buzzard Eagle

It's really good to have a long vacation -- 5 days should be very easy and relax in birding and photographing the migration in this season.

I always love this place becasue of the blue ocean, and the green grren grass lay by the seaside, no matter a 1,400 KM round-trip drive, I still look forward to go back there, to enjoy the relaxation and join the eagles' migration every year.

The best place to birding is Mong-Chou area, you can join with lots of birders and take a good look at how those eagles stopby in the sky, gathering and circling like a tornado....we call that eagle column, and diving to the comfrot spots they found for a long-light rests. Anyway, just visit there next year and you will really exciting of what you see with great pleasants.

Here are some different style of photographing of those lovely eagles~~

With the assistance of Hugo, I got those shots below~~

The Mang-Chou town map borrowed fromWandering Kenting website for your reference.

Eagle migration eve

2006-10-03T19:31:00.000+08:00

Every September, Chinese Sparrow Hawk starts the migration move, I missed the migration last year becuase I have a business trip to go, so I go Kenting earlier this year in order to get my shots before i fly out to Vegas(if any interesting..Vegas photos this year at here ).

Chinese Sparrow Hawk

The grassland nearby the backdoor of the Kenting National Park also a good place to go, where you can find some birds surprising you.........

L.a.lucionensis

Marsh Harrier

Black Jimny dorve byI-yun looks kind of cowbody on grassland...

Everybody get tired after the shots of the whole bunch of hawks fly by. OK, don;t forget to get together again at Kenting this weekend to meet the biggest migration of the Gray-faced Buzzard Eagle, I'll see you there.~~

Da-Yuan.....It's been a long time no see

2006-09-19T20:09:00.000+08:00

I went to Da-yuan in the last short weekend I had, where nearby to the CKS international airport in Taoyuan county, it's an plain area near the rive and sea jounction that full of immargrant birds during Spring and Autumn times.

Comfortable temperture in the cloudy autumn, it should be a good weather for birding in the car.

Why I said "in the car"? It's quite strange that birds fly when you walk out the car, or just stalk by foots, which is very typtical in Da-yuan area. So most of the birders came here on their vechiles, with camera & lens mounted in the front seat, you will have to try once so that you will konw what it is all about.

OK, let't birding on the blog ~~

Greenshank, whose fmaily members are very difficult to be recongnized, to me at least.

Look at the Common Myna at the green background, look a bit nicer than it outfit.

Here's one Common Myna - chick

Short-tail Black Drongo -----It should be a Juvenile

Oriental Great Reed Warbler

The "little-white" are definitely the members in the field, I took the shot differently and maybe it's better than the usual way of shooting.

Little Egret~s

Ugly Moorhen -chick

All five of them together awaiting their monther back to feed them.

There's whole bunch of Nutmeg Mannikin busy in filled out their sotmatch.

Nutmeg Mannikin - Juvenile

Sudden land down Painted Snipe in a far distance.

Naunty Twany-flanked Prinia alway jumps out the bush without further notice.

Beautiful Black-winged Stilt is one of my favorite lady, they alway look so easy and elegant .

Tree Sparrow jumped up to a branch becasue of the sudden rains, no matter how near I am to him.

L.a.lucionensis, same fmaily as Brown Shrike but in different clor of feathers. she happened to doing some tricky hing while I took those shots是

Ready to go~~

Aaa..Wooo~~~

Harder~~~

KoooOOooowww~~~

Feel better~~~

Haaaa~~~

For birds photographing in couple of years, I usually ignored the common birds around me, which often surprising us in some way of their lives, maybe I should pay more attention to the things that close to me...

Mountain ．Ocean

2006-09-01T22:49:00.000+08:00

End of summer times....Ted,whom let me be blamed lately because his didn't keep his promise to protect a breeding nest, invitedDL,Stuartand me,

In excuse in trying Ted's newVolvo XC90,we then started a mountain-ocean driving trip.

Although that I'm not quite good at car. but Volvo XC90 is really a garde "A", If money's not a problem, eally should have to get one it. Anyway, this car has been booked bu Donald, while Ted's going to replace it with better car couples of years later!

Back to the trip, we departure 03:30 that marning while most of peoples are still in sweet dream,we headed to La-la mountianthe aborigial people call it a beautiful mountain, and it sure is the most beautiful mountian are in northern Taiwan, with beautiful views and cool air to beat the summer heat.

Sorry that I didn't have any photographs because I can't control Ted to stop and enjoy the beautiful view, and the worst thing is, we didn't find lots of birds in nountain area......

so....

Shy Vivid Niltava (juvenile)

Lone Green-backed Tit

Far-away Yellow-throated Minivet

these three birds wer our only capture in the mountain area....

With this platform but without the birds up there, I guess we ahve to wait until next winter season.

We drove alone at route# 17A, heading to Ming-Tsu, a beautiful pond in mountian area. I'm kinda look forward to see it but no fortune this time, too. They didn't woke me up until they found a bunch of Taiwan Yuhina.

Wihile we were focus in photographingt those lovely birds, the nest with three chicks have fallen out from the tree, we stop and try out best to set it back before they starved to death, their parents seen to know and wait nearby until we lft that area, hopefully they are all fine and OK.

On the way home, we stopped by at I-lan and agin visited the so call Big-C fish port...to try our luck to see if we could find some sea gulls, but sitll, we didn't find much of birs over there, only one Lesser frigate over there, and it's so near us, some of our following pictures couldn't have it all in!!

OK, these were all we got in our mountian-ocean trip that days, I guess the Volvo XC90 will be the only one who's very happy in this trip becasue it have a big run-in in this trip ^^

Formosan Blue Magpie - chick

2006-08-21T22:29:00.000+08:00

I don't remember who told me that there's no birds in July~August.

Formosan Blue Magpiehas another very beautiful name in Chinese -- 長尾山娘, describe it as a beautiful long-tailed village girl....Haha, not sure if I put it in better translation.

This is the first time I met their chicks, wiht no beautiful long-tailed, jumped like a big frog everywhere looked for their mom for foods, you just can't image that the little chicks will grown up as a beautiful one.

I risked been attacked by thier mom and dad to get these photos, and it's really cute and amazing that these ugly one will become such a beautiful creatures, hope you enjoy it, too.
~~End.

Greater Crested Tern @ I-lan

2006-08-21T22:07:00.000+08:00

This is a very small fish port at I-lan area,you can find the fishing boats lined up and back into the harbour, with the fresh fish/shrip catch and of course, a bunch of sea gull followed them back for foods, that's when I got the opportunity to take some shots of them.

Greater Crested Tern

Look at them, happy and ....

Do go visit there before summer ends, enjoy this beautiful crowded fish port.

Here some info of Ta-she fish port

Collared Scops Owl

2006-08-04T16:46:00.000+08:00

Woo~~Woo~~~this is the sounds that remind me not to just sitting in front of my TV or computer!!

Collared Scops Owl, sized about 25 centimeter, with the big red eyes and the creeping calling sound, you might probably run all your strength to get away from it in the middle of nowhere at night times.

I’ve had a close touch with this cute little owl couple of years ago when I visited one of the tourist farm in middle Taiwan, its weight about 1~2 kilograms, it’s so lovely and sp cute that you just don’t want to send it back to the owner.

By the way, it’s illegal to raise it and we’ve report it to the authority to urge the owner to release it to the nature, hope we can meet him sometime, somewhere in the summer night.

Mt. Hehuan

2006-08-04T16:19:00.000+08:00

Remember the first time I’ve been to Mt. Hehuan, it’s snow white and below-zero temperature.

This time, no way, I told my friends in the very beginning, but who can reject the beautiful birds up there anyway. In fact, I really enjoyed the deep-blue sky and the green mountains, it’s a place you can leave all the unpleasant things behind and really merge yourself into all those beautiful scenery.

I also love to take some scenery shots but really lack of practice in this area, but who care, just enjoy the photos here I took.

OK, back to our targets this trip,

Alpine Accentor

Wren

We took these shots easily because it’s their breeding seasons, and you just stay put until they fly over to get a mouthful of moths for their chicks..

I sincerely recommending you guys pay a visit to this highest route 14A in Mt. Hehuan, which is highest road in Asia and enjoy the fresh air and beautiful scenery up there.

Some useful links :

Mt. Ho-huan-shan Forest Recreation Area introduction

WebCam of Mr. Hehaun

Ho-huan village, where you can stay over night

White-backed Woodpecker

2006-08-04T15:10:00.000+08:00

"There!
Over there!
There's a Woodpecker!"

There were only some Taiwan Sibia & Taiwan Yuhina early morning in Sunlinksea area, and I guess
that I won’t have the chance to find the target birds this morning.

And I have to say thanks to Summer, who has the very sharp-eyes to found this rear White-backed Woodpecker on the cliff-side dead wood, which was 30 meters away from us.

I only took couple of shots before it flown away within the few seconds we found it, and call our friends to confirm that’s the White-backed Woodpecker wee took. Yes, we got luck today!!

This male White-backed Woodpecker is look like the Gray-headed Pygmy Woodpecker, except it have bigger size and red feathers on crown and under-tailed covert.
Four hours of waiting this morning would be worth a while when we met this Woodpecker accidentally.

In Taiwan Bird guide, we got 4 different kinds of Woodpecker, which are Wryneck, Gray-headed Green Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker and Gray-headed Pygmy Woodpecker, I’ve listed three of them that taken by myself for your reference:

Wryneck

This records were took at this April, while it took a short break in Da-Yuan area before it heading north again, an over 30 meters photo records.

Gray-headed Pygmy Woodpecker

This cute Gray-headed climbed up and down the tree and pretty difficult to predict where would he stayed, recorded in Wu-Lin Farm.

As to the Gray-headed Green Woodpecker, well, I guess I ‘d need some lucks this winter in Wu-Lin Frarm.

Black-naped Blue Monarch

2006-08-04T15:04:00.000+08:00

It’s my first time to get the opportunity to get close to the Black-naped Blue Monarch, with breeding of her two chicks. We couldn’t get the clean background in middle of woods but try hard to get an good angle to prevent any disturbance of the breeding section of it.

The mother bird was busy breeding back and forth that day with those two open-mouth chicks, you could even found that chicks longer their slim neck to try to get the first big meal from their parents.

This is a wonderful experience for me, and I hope you all like it, too.

2610 Tataka

2006-07-25T18:29:00.000+08:00

TATAKA -
The Tsao aboriginal language to describe this flat prairie at the Jade mountain saddle area, which also my sanatorium in summer times.

Met lots of birders over there last weekend, ren, I-Yun, Simon, Jo Ann, Peter….etc.

Tawny Owl is the target bird in every summer night in this area, but unfortunately I didn’t catch it well in last weekend.:

Just chat with the guys on MSN, mentioned that I-Yuntook the day-time shots of the Tawny Owl, which inspired us with two main issues to play with Tawny Owl:

a. Never go bath.

b. Never go toilet.

These two main issues really a big jokes because the Tawny Owl shown in the middle of the road while everybody’s not in the camp site doing the above mentioned two main issues.

By the way, thanks to Eric'sgirl friend and I-Yun wife to hold the spot lights for us during the night hours.

I planned to take shots of those beautiful starry night sky but once again I’ve been knocked off by the freeze night air and downward eyelids, the only thing I can do was laid there watch it with occasionally passed by falling star..

But I did took some marvelous morning scenery shots here. ~

Coal Titat theTataka tourist centerstill so friendly but I guessed that I got there too late to have the good light condition in those shots.

We’ve collected oneVerreaux Bush Warblerchick from the tourist, who found it on the road side. I tried to relocating it’s nest position but found it very difficult, which probably the tourist gave us the wrong position. Anyway, . Hugowill brought it to the TESRI on his way back home, where they can took care of it properly.

Below with some photo records I took in this trip:

Green-backed Tit

Streak-throated Fulvetta

Collared Bush Robin

Beavan's Bullfinch

And this Formosan stripped squirrel

Last of all, I've listed some useful links for you guys:

Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute

Tataka tourist center

Web Cam of Tataka

Black-naped Oriole

2006-07-18T22:55:00.000+08:00

Looking forward to seeBlack-naped Oriole for several times this year but just always not in the right timing.

Finally, sometime in June I heard them nesting in Pin-Tung, and it’s really a beautiful “yellow” bird with
Black eye-mask on its head, looks quite cute to me in this “clothes”. Anyway, let’s see what I got from it.

Failure capture of the flying ones~~

Local friends told me they have already failed for two nesting this season here and don’t know the actual reason why those birds dropped their nests.

While I visited this time, the 3rd nest have been established and adults began to breeding their babies, we didn’t know how many chicks in the nest but really hope they can eventually grow up and leave their nest safely.

Latest update: the chicks disappeared after the first typhoon this summer, not sure if they left safely but only pray it is.

Kinmen ~ Kinmen ~

2006-07-17T11:05:00.000+08:00

It's damn hot in Kinmen aound this season,the only thing you can do is fina a shelter without shunshine.

First of all, Thanks to one of our friends - Great, with his help we have a very plaesant times in Kinmen this time.

We headed out to an abandoned bunker at the seaside after we got off the airplane, looking for the long-waiting Eurasian Oystercatcher.

Take a look at how Andy hide over there^^

the rest of the photos here

We have the best Kinmen Kaoliang Liquorthat night and it's really tough for me to get over it~~

This was the "big boat we took next day and it seem that everybody's OK with the liqor last night.

OK, back to the boating day. This ismy 2nd experiences to photographing on a boat, I remember I took a lot of beautiful sea gull at the first time travel to New Zealand, you just have to keep stable while took your shots of those lovely birds.

We got three different kind of sea gulls here, but most of the photos were blur or out of foucs wither way, took me whole night to checked all ot them....

Roseate Tern

Black-naped Tern

Bridled Tern

We still waving even after we've back to the pier, maybe we were still in the moods with those lovely sea gulls. After a big beef noodle we back to our ways to next destination, with a jumbo cup of iced drink for everybody to cool us down a bit in that 35 degree of temperture of course.

AOspreyflow over our head from nowhere.

This lovely babyOriental Magpie RobinAndy found while we filled our cars at the gas station.

Ron lake is a palce full of different species,you could find Moorhen,White-browed Rail,ducks,Black-crowned Night Heron,Chinese Pond Heron,Chinese Little Bittern...This was Greater Coucal after I found the flown by....

We then wandering around the farm lands nearby, and we found Pied Kingfisher(Reference photos here)andBlack-winged Kiteflwon by, we didn't have time to get them, but it's still cheered us up when you could saw those rare birds here.

I led our friends to the Blue-tailed Bee eater colony befroe the night came, let everybody got used to what they will have tomorrow to prevent any problems the next day.

The last day in Kinmen, let's have a look at the "jet" like Blue-tailed Bee Eater...

Almost forget this fly-byBlack-winged Kite

It's definitely a best trip I have to that small isalnd.
Kinmen ~ Kinmen ~ We should see next time^^

Little Tern at Changpin industrial zone

2006-07-06T19:10:00.000+08:00

I went to the almost-abandoned Changpin industrial zone last Sunday,
where should be a very nice area for birds to rest and breeding all year around.

Unfortunately, local government's develop blue-print have it as an industrial area to attracting lcoal/foreign investments in late 80s.

Nowadays, Taiwan lost their competetion to China, which is why I say it's almost-abandoned becuase there're only few factories built up and it seems it's a good timing for local government to re-plan the use of this area.

Don't remember since when government is kind of interestingin the wind turbine, you can find it line-up along the beach.

See the scale of the wind turbine with my little jeep.

OK, let's have a look at the target bird that I was looking for - Little Tern

Not sure if these the eggs of Little Tern.

There are lots of Kentish Plover but not one of them were so friendly with my lens....

Migration Black-winged Stilt but now some of them are stay at this island

It's almost 37F that day while I took those shots, and it's all I can do before I got deep-fried by the sun ~~

Blue-tailed Bee-eater in Kinmen

2006-07-03T16:14:00.000+08:00

Weather's not stable in May, we forced to delay our schedule becuase of the first typhoon this summer. At the last of the trip

only Michael and I heading to Kinmen, instead of 7 members in the very beginning.

Michael Roy, one of our friends from LA, have long-planned to have this trip to Kinmen, our target bird is Blue-tailed Bee-eater.

More photos here

Ring-necked Pheasant~~

dark morph Long-tailed shrike~~

More Kinmen birds info can be found at WILD BIRD SOCIETY OF KINMEN .

Fairy Pitta @ Huben, Taiwan

2006-07-03T15:40:00.000+08:00

End of June at Huben -
Try again to see if I could have encounter with Fairy Pitta again.

The day before my visit to Huben, a friend of mine informed me that the chicks have left their nest. I'm pretty happy to heard that one antoher nesting success but which is mean that I barely have the chance to meet their chicks. Anyway,hope I can get the chances next year.

Sunshine on him.....

Way to close to my position....

Can you find out the eight differnet colors on it?

Pheasant-tailed Jacana

2006-06-27T16:06:00.000+08:00

There are only eight different Jacanas around the world, and the only one with the beautiful long-tail is Pheasant-tailed Jacana, where you can find it here in Taiwan.

Jacana - A small tropical wading birds with greatly elongated toes and claws that enable it to walk on the floating vegatation, also call Lily Trotter.

I took these photos at the reservation area here at Taiana, and it's very difficult to get the fly shots, hope you enjoy it!!

Bustard Quail

2006-06-10T21:22:00.000+08:00

It's been heavy rainfalls for couple of days and it seems the weather isn't going to get well soon.

Bustard Quail

14cm length,easily found in farm and dryland, there used to be lots of them but alreay pretty rare recently, which probably because their habitats been rebuild as factories and buildings.

This male Bustard Quail wandering around the farm side in front of my jeep.

I remember the first time I saw it at Shinchu area, and they're sand-washing themselves but I even can't recongnized it because they looked like some little Sparrow to me.

I set up my gears at the mud roadside and wait patiently until it come to me, and he was so sensitive to my shutter sounds that made me had my shots very gentle and carefully.

The rest of the photographs here

Common Serpent Eagle -Juvenile

2006-03-13T15:32:00.000+08:00

Here's one juvneile we found in the tea garden

Look at it rest at a rock to dry it's wings, is it look like the silken princess?

It's quite strange that we didn't find it's parent in nearby area, and it just like an abandoned child.

Unfortunately, it's been shot off couple of weeks ago, by two men with a shot gun, which is really a bad news becuase it's so lovely and you really don't have much of the chances to meet this kind of Raptors.

Kingfisher

2006-03-13T14:07:00.000+08:00

A weekend around February

With couple of friends stay at Taipei, tried our lucks to see what we can find in urban mountain areas.

First of all, one of my friends told me there's one cute little Common Kingfisher in the campus of Taiwan universit, let's go and find it

There are two tree branches in the both sides of this little pond, I've tried to pre-focus on the top of one of the branch to see if I could have some good shots while kingfisher back to the branch top after its diving.

I didn't have many of the chances that days because the sky is getting cloudy and darker, well, check it out yourselves

It's kindda Panaroma vision

A moment it's back to tree-top

Steady...almost

Waht a catch!!

Wasn't it interesting!! Try to do it yourself and send us your feedback

We got this little plumb-ball at the Wulie area, she's going to have her nest and busy around to find something suitable for her.

I just can't believe this is her home !??

We also have some Black Kites and Osprey photo at the lake-side of KuanHsin area

Finally got some of Osprey's diving photo.

Black-faced Spoonbill

2006-03-08T11:56:00.000+08:00

Last weekend we visited the Black-faced Spoonbill, which we nick name it "happy".

It's about time for them prepare to fly back to their colony in somehwere North Asia, we found some of it have the brown feathers around their necks, and it'd say good-bye to us in couple of weeks ahead.

This wing tips' in black shown us it's a young "happy"

Look at what he got!!

No beautiful make-up

The rest of the photos

I'm not sure if it's white spoonbill

.....Richard

The Lone Fortress - Kinmen

2006-02-09T17:39:00.000+08:00

Midas, Stuart, Ellan and I decided to plan a trip to Kinmen to join the birding season, sorry to all of you not been informed of this trip because Midas insist that we
planned this trip in less team-amte in order to get more opportunities to see more birds.

This is my first time to Kinmen and I assure you it's worthy if you visit in the right season, which is April~May and October~January. OK! Let's see what we have in this trip
to Kinmen.

We saw over 27 different species of bird during our 3-day trip, and enjoy the birding in your car to prevent any interruption to the birds.
It's really good for lazy guys like me, but it really need t got out of your car to strength your legs before it getting rigid.

Whimbrel

Crested Myna

Richard's Pipit ( It's not my pet ^-III )

Collared Crow, very rare in main island.

White-breasted Hen on the brewer's grains, which you can easily found everywhere in this small isalnd.

Mapie Robin can also be easily found in the brewer's grains

White Wagtail, like her name, wag her tail all the time.

Very well camouflaged Chinese Pond Heron, you never find it if you don't have your glasses on.

Redshank

Great-crested Grebe, another rear species at main island, and watch out the last photograph, it's body half sink into the water is mean it'll foing to diving for fish.

Black-winged Tilt in the dawn lakeside...

Osprey with his catch

Magpie, with lucky name in Chinese but I really don't see any luck when I met it.

Black-headed shrike

Cattle Egret

Black-winged Kite
We found two of them prepared for nesting but can't really get any closer since they are very shy to see human around, Stuart and I tried to hide in the tent early morning the next day
but they already left the area without any reason.

Kingfisher in Kinmen isalnd also a big sale, don't miss it if you have chances to visit the island, I got three different kind of Kingfishers near the Kin-Sar Den area:

Pied Kingfisher

Black-capped Kingfisher

and the lovely White-breated Kingfisher

Those three different kind of Kingfishers are bigger then what we usually have at Taiwan main island, I guess that I have to plan another trip in May to get them as closer as possible.

Eurasian Oystercatcher, not sure if I got the right name of it, they are also very rare in Taiwan but lots of it around the China and small isalnd stripes.

This is quite fun to have the big guy Gray Heron to face with the pied Oyster catcher.

Hoopoe which is look like a lama

Ring-necked Pheasant is a very shy chicken, with bigger size and beautiful plumes.

Hey!! this is Common Buzzard!! this is it that let us chased it all afternoon hours, and really great to see it in the first time.

Great Cormaant with the dawn.
It's really amazing when you found rows of them flied into this area in the dawn, they first landed in the lake to washed out the salt from thier feathers, than occupied the only dried up tree in the middle of lake to dry their
feathers for the night, and probably the tree was drunk bu their shits, Haha!!

Stonechat

We've been stuck at the airport in the last days of our trip because of the heavy fogs, thanks for it to allow us staied at a very traditional and beautiful hostel in Sha-Shin area
You have to stay at least one night with it, it's gorgious!!

By the way, there're lots of Wind-lion God in this small island, I don't know why but since it's a kind of God, we have to respect him.

You can also find some useful information in here, and do let me know what you think of Kinmen, the old-time fortress in the forntier of the Strait.

中文在這裡

Lapwing

2005-12-26T19:14:00.000+08:00

This is what I found near the CKS int'l airport, there's just beside the beaches and very windy in the winter times.

Lapwing has a very cute pigtail over her head and fly over to Taiwan for the cold winter up north........

Little Grebe in the pond

2005-12-23T21:15:00.000+08:00

The little Grebe family I found in Chigu Spoonbill reservation area

By the way, you can find more photographs here

Osprey

2005-11-17T23:04:00.000+08:00

Here's the season Osprey back to the lake side, I've had counted 4 of them gliding by the lake side. Anyway, photos first:

Formosa Webcam

2005-11-17T17:52:00.000+08:00

大家出門前通常都會看一下天氣圖吧？其實中央氣象局裡面還藏了一個好東西，就是在視訊選項底下有一個景點觀測，裡面有全省多出觀光景點的現場實況轉播。奮起湖車站、沼平車站、塔塔加、奧萬大....這些地方都有。下面是主選單畫面(有時候速度會慢一點！)

Taiwan Webcam Index:
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/rdec-index.htm
阿里山沼平車站 Alishan Jhaoping Station
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-26-right.htm
奮起湖車站 Fen-Chi-Hu old station
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-45-right.htm
塔塔加 Tataka
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-54-right.htm
奧萬大 Aowanda
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-24-right.htm
武陵農場 Wulin Farm
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-23-right.htm
墾丁 Kenting
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-25-right.htm
墾丁龍鑾潭 Lake Longlaun-Kenting
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-09-right.htm
台南七股黑面琵鷺保護區 Tainan Cigu Black-faced Spoonbill Refuge
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-17-right.htm
台南七股潟湖 Tainan Cigu lagoon
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-03-right.htm
南橫公路梅山原生種植物園 Kaohsiung Meishan Endemic Plant Nursery
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4/webcam/ob-new-07-right.htm
嘉義鰲股溼地 AuKu wetland - ChaYi
mms://210.201.139.140/CAM4

以上感謝阿孟提供訊息 (Sited from Houmeng)

Beautiful Taiwan Tit

2005-11-17T16:34:00.000+08:00

Taiwan tit, the very unique species that only cna be found in Taiwan's mountain areas, with yellow-colored feathers and beautiful crown on its head, which is like a princess from the forest.

Hi, there!!

2005-11-09T16:31:00.000+08:00

It's really exciting to have my blog here and really hope you like what I have from the most beautiful Pacific island - Taiwan

真是很高興來這邊開個Blog, 希望大家會喜歡我提供的一些鳥人鳥語..