Pheasants photography tour report in 2015
This is a Sichuan game birds photography custom-made tour for a singapore couple, Rose and Joseph Lee, during this 24 days tour ( 14th April – 7th May ) we visited Western Sichuan and Northwestern Sichuan, tour route: Chengdu – Kangding- Xinduqiao – Yajiang – same way back to Chengdu – Wanglang – Tangjiahe – Chuanzhusi – Ruoergai – Maerkang – Balang Shan – Chengdu.
During this tour, we got all the possible Phasianidae on that area, some of them are very good sharp photos such as : Lady Amherst’s Pheasant, White-eared Pheasant, Blood Pheasant, Tibetan Partridge, Szechenyi’s Monal Partridge ( Buff-throated Partridge ), Verreaux’s Monal Partridge ( Chestnut-throated Partridge ), Temminck’s Tragopan, Snow Partridge. Some of them are not sharp enough or just recording shots such as : Blue-eared Pheasant ( in Wanglang saw too, in Ruoergai saw another two, both up on the slope ), Chinese Monal, Tibetan Snowcock, Golden Pheasant. One species no photo, we only saw a pair of them around 30-40 meters away, disturbed by us, one running away across the grass, another one flew away into the bushes ahead of us: Chinese Grouse.
Other rare and good species we saw on this trip are: Sichuan Wood Owl ( good photo ), Black-necked Crane ( good photo ), a pair of Sichuan Jay flew across the valley in the freezing snow ( no photo ), Przevalski’s Finch / Pink-tailed Bunting ( young male one, not sharp enough photo), Lammergeier ( good photo ), White-browed Tit Warbler ( good photo ), Crested Tit Warbler ( good photo ), White-browed Tit ( good photo ), Siberian Rubythroat ( not sharp enough photo ), Grandala ( no photo), Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush /Sukatschev’s Laughingthrush (very good and close view, but no photo, we mainly focus on to photograph Chinese Grouse ).
All the sharp and amazing bird photos of this trip are from Singapore client Joseph Lee:
Having Long-life Noodle and Cake in Joseph’s Birthday on tour
Rose and Joseph Lee , Summer Wong at Erlang Shan