We were out in Delta, cruising the farm fields and at Boundary Bay… Some beautiful birds!

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Nature’s Cleaning Crew by DragonSpeed, on Flickr

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Nature’s Cleaning Crew by DragonSpeed, on Flickr

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Nature’s Cleaning Crew by DragonSpeed, on Flickr

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Nature’s Cleaning Crew by DragonSpeed, on Flickr

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The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,500 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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A collection of Cape Buffalo pictures from our 2009 Safari in Tanzania with Tropical Trails

Well, 2 1/2 years after we finished our INCREDIBLE Kenya/Tanzania trip, I finally managed to finish editing the BIRDS from the trip (sooo many other animals to still do!) Here they are… 99 of the best bird shots by Mrs D and I. Shot at the time with the Canon 50D and the Rebel XTi. on the 50D I had the 100-400 and on the Rebel XTi we had the 70-200 2.8 with the 2X extender. Our tour company was "Tropical Trails" We had a Fantastic Guide, Jacob Loserian. Ask for him if you book with TT!

Our Judo club hosted this tournament on December 3rd, 2011. It turns out I got more shots that were decent than I thought. When I walked out, it felt like it had been a BAD day of shooting. I’m pleasantly surprised.

Our last full day in Hong Kong – spent connecting wth a friend from long ago and with family. The 27th we would be flying home.

The Day was spent at Hong Kong Disneyland mostly… For a small place, there’s an awful lot of things see and do Hope you enjoy these pictures.  There’s over 100 shots from Disney!

Mrs Dragonspeed and I went out yesterday to Boundary Bay to shoot the Snowy Owls. We got lucky… Not only did we see over 17 Snowy Owls, but we also saw Northern Harriers and a Short-Eared Owl hunting. Cloudy weather but good photo ops!

Mrs Dragonspeed needed to get rid of me for a day , so her Uncle #7 offered to show me around. We spent the day around Sai Kung.

We went out to the Kau Sai Chau Golf Course where we got in trouble for wandering around a golf course We went on an 80 minute cruise around some local islands and we had a great seafood dinner. It was a blast!

A day of contrasts. From the rugged isolation and challenging conditions of the Mountain property of Zheng Sheng Christian School on Lantau Island to the swanky properties of Victoria Peak, overlooking the lights of Central, Wan Chai and Causeway Bay,… I’ll let the photos tell the story….

We spent the morning with the inlaws around Aberdeen. We had lunch and dropped into a local temple for a look around and then headed down to pick up our 17-55 f/2.8IS that we had dropped in to Canon a few days ago. it was ready to pick up. Not like Canon Canada that seems to delight in taking weeks to get things back! Wow… nice speed Canon HK!

From Canon, it was a short hop over to the star ferry pier in Kowloon to shoot the lights of central after sunset. What a lovely city! That’s gotta take a lot of coal to keep those lights burning though.

After a long day walking, it was good to get home.

Today we went over to Cheung Chau for the Chu family dinner.

Had the opportunity to shoot a bit of the life and action on Cheung Chau, from the Chu family temple, to a kiteboarder to a Heron fishing off the swimming marker. It made for a great day trip out.

We went out to the Mai Po protected Wetlands. It was a 3 hour guided tour with 25 people in the group. There were some amazing birds. It would have been nice to be alone and have a better chance of seeing some of them a lot closer. The visit was good though, and the cost was worthwhile. It was a long way from downtown to get there. I’m glad that Maggie and Francis live nearby!

A sampling of photos from day 8 in Hong Kong. We had lunch buffet at the Marriott hotel. we visited the Hong Kong Park and its aviary. We went to Langham Place and then out to stay at Maggie and Francis’ place since Saturday would be an early morning to go to Mai Po.