ornithography: July 31, 2013

Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis)

While driving up the valley on our way to school (valley golf, Penny Lane, Antipolo) we spotted this bird foraging the road and quickly grabbed the camera, We used our car as camo, I drove passed the bird then backed up slowly. It's awesome that birds have gotten used with the shape of vehicles that it's not that much of a threat to them anymore.

ISO 800 300mm F/8.0 1/640sec

and just a couple meters, we saw this

Long Tailed or Rufous-backed Shrike (Lanius schach)

We also spotted a Straited grassbird.

Lifer List (since I started shooting for this blog)

1.   Golden bellied Flyeater
2.   Long tailed shrike    
3.   Olive backed sunbird  
4.   White Collared Kingfisher
5.   Pacific Swallow      
6.   Black naped Oriole    
7.   Yellow vented bulbul  
8.   Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker
9.   Pied Thriller        
10.  Elegant Tit          
11.  Brown Shrike          
12.  Large billed Crow    
13.  Eurasian Sparrows    
14.  Blue throated bee-eater
15.  Pied Fan tail
16.  White-breasted Woodswallow
17.  Zebra Dove
18.  Straited Grassbird
19. Scaly breasted Munia
20. White rumped Munia
21.  Lowland White Eyes
22.  Pied Bushcat (not photographed)
23. Spotted Dove


Also, allow me to post bird photos I took from our trip at the beautiful Naga City (July )


Scaly-breasted Munia or Spotted Munia (Lonchura punctulata)

 White-rumped Munia or White-rumped Mannikin (Lonchura striata)

Mount Iriga or Mount Asog a 1,196 m stratovolcano