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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 26, 2009 12:30:25 GMT
Thanks, Mela, Bobby, Tonji, James, Ely, Bob, Mark, Bong, Plain Idol, Sylvia, William and Jonathan! Even if the neck isn't fully extended yet, Shaquillensis O'Nealius already towers over a dense growth of kangkong-like plants. ;D Great Bittern ( Botaurus stellaris, rare migrant) Shooting Info - Candaba wetlands, Pampanga, November 25, 2009, 5D2 + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, 700 mm, f/7.1, ISO 640, 1/160sec, bean bag, manual exposure in available light, 32.4 meters distance
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Nov 26, 2009 13:38:14 GMT
I am also waiting for the hidef videos mastah!
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Post by alainpascua on Nov 26, 2009 15:13:32 GMT
Congrats on your lifer, Ka Mastah! Whew, that's really far and I wonder how you were able to find it.
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Post by Lydia Robledo on Nov 26, 2009 17:30:27 GMT
So this made up for your Boso-boso's birdless day! Boso-boso's mixed flocks were missed flocks. Let us put it this way Ka Mastah. If you did not take the trip to Boso-boso, you probably would be tinkering with your faulty PC at home. Or, if there were some birds in Boso boso, you would have not planned Candaba. Even the rain on a birdless day played its part to set the timing... perfect timing for this great find. He, he... So this is a day in the life of a Master bird photographer. Wasn't it a great day? As you have said, got to get away anyway, well, you got your groovy day just doing what comes naturally. Congratulations. telyds
PS. I am watching out for the Antipolo valley landscape, the best, that side of Boso boso. Beautiful morning.
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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 26, 2009 21:17:27 GMT
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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 26, 2009 21:23:12 GMT
I am also waiting for the hidef videos mastah! Got a few seconds of footage, Toto. But the bird was so still that it's almost a photograph. Will probably just add it to my next Birds of Candaba compilation. Congrats on your lifer, Ka Mastah! Whew, that's really far and I wonder how you were able to find it. Thanks, Alain! Eagle-eyed Arnold spotted its head popping out of the vegetation while we're on the way out of the pond area. He thought it was a weird looking heron, and when I saw it through a bino, I immediately recognized it as the Shaq of bitterns. Its size is the dead give-away.
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Post by Luis (Chito) Limchiu on Nov 27, 2009 7:02:21 GMT
WOW, a rare bird and very Nicely captured Romy
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Post by lenymanalo on Nov 27, 2009 8:27:22 GMT
It's the first Candaba record, the 63rd migrant and 116th species.
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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 27, 2009 9:33:05 GMT
Thanks, Chito and Leny! It's the first Candaba record, the 63rd migrant and 116th species. Leny, I stand corrected when I mentioned over the phone that it could be a new record for Candaba. Actually, the Kennedy Guide says that it was recorded at Candaba in Dec. 24, 1989. It could be a first in-habitat photo record for Candaba, or even for the Philippines.
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Post by lenymanalo on Nov 27, 2009 10:31:59 GMT
I stand corrected.
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Post by Nilo Arribas Jr. on Dec 6, 2009 15:12:34 GMT
Congratulations on this rare lifer Romy.
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Post by Ed Matuod on Dec 6, 2009 18:04:27 GMT
Big congratulations on the Great Bittern! Great job.
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Post by Wilfredo "Don" David on Dec 7, 2009 7:06:51 GMT
Wow! Congratulations on the new record master Romy! Very nice soft sunlight and great exposure!
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