Lifer Update

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 Buschat
23. Spotted Dove
24. Light-vented Bulbul
25. Oriental Magpie Robin

26. Red Whiskered bulbul
27. Black Crested bulbul
28. Racket tailed treepie
29. Ornage Spotted bulbul
30. Java Sparrow

31. Bali Myna
32. Pied Imperial Pegion
33. Maroon Breasted Crown Pegion
34. Yellow Faced Myna
35. Crested Pegion

36. Common Shell Duck
37. Emerald Dove
38. Alexandrine Parakeet
39. Long tailed BroadBill
40. American Flamingo

41. Wood Duck
42. Hawaiian Goose
43. Scarlet Ibis
44. Blue Crowned Pegeon
45. Yellow-Casqued Hornbill

46. Red Crowned Crane
47. Chinese Pond Heron
48. Great Egret
49. Grey HeronCommon Greenshank

Philippine Hawk Eagle (Nisaetus philippensis)

videos:
PHE video 1

Phases of the Moon

It's been a long while since my last update, I was able to get back to astrophotography after a very long hiatus, due to work, weather and seeing conditions.

Here's a growing collection of Moon shots, I was able to do 6 consecutive days of imaging between April 22 - 26 2015 because weather has been favorable. Hope to take more in the coming days.

042215 19% illuminated Waxing crescent

042315 27% illuminated Waxing crescent

042415 37% illuminated Waxing crescent

042515 47% illuminated First quarter

042615 56% illuminated Waxing gibbous

042715 64% illuminated Waxing gibbous

Ornithography: August 5, 2014

Bee-Eater

Been a while. Driving through Parkridge inside Valley Golf, Antipolo, we spotted a group of Bee-eaters feeding along the tree-line.

Ornithography: Sept 23-29 2013

It's been a while, let's start with this spider..I was at shooting site and this was in the way, of course i did not mess with this spider. I just let him stay there. It was a cold windy morning and this web was being swayed by the breeze.

Egrets in a flying formation, very graceful flyers. It was peaceful to see.

another group.

A Pied Thriller

ornithography: Aug 2, 2013

Wood Swallow

Long Tailed Shrike

Straited Grassbird

Barred Rail (Gallirallus torquatus)

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