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Wildlife articles
Openbill Storks resurgence in Thailand
Wanted: a place to breed [Note: from around 1990; Openbills have increased since, but this article…
Taman Negara rainforest, Malaysia
Taman Negara – rainforest national park in Malaysia Breakfast with hornbills Early morning at Taman Negara…
Nature Conservation
Keeper of the Kings: Captive breeding Philippine Eagles
One man’s perseverance offers hope to a critically endangered bird of prey On a warm, sunny…
Turtle Park, Malaysia
Green turtle conservation on Pulau Selingaan, Sabah, Malaysia. Conservationists are helping to save these amazing relics…
Science
We’re in the Covid Era for the Long Haul
[Written July 2020] Though it’s only around six months since the Covid-19 pandemic came to light…
My Strange n Surprising Summer Staycation with Cellulitis
aka Well, That Escalated Quickly Spot which leg had cellulitis! In July, I spent a break…
Travel tales
Danxia Shan – Far More than a Magnificent Rock Penis
Though China’s bullet train network is yet to reach Hong Kong [connected since I wrote this],…
Dapeng – History, Culture and Beachgoing in Shenzhen … Yes, Really!
With its new-city-on-the-block brashness, and gleaming skyscrapers along Hong Kong’s northern fringe, Shenzhen might seem an…
DocMartin photo galleries
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- kawagebo kawagarbo meilixueshan in early morning sunlight
- Dragon Boat Race
- Sunset from Dragon's Back, Hong Kong
- Dubai sand dunes in early morning sun
- Young Bajau girls, Indonesia
- Chestnut-vented Nutchatch
- Cheung Sha reflections, Lantau, Hong Kong
- Sunset over sea fog west of Cheung Chau
- Woman in a red coat
- Tung Wan boats, Cheung Chau
- North Cheung Chau sunset by drone
- Great Egret reflection
- Whitby, North Yorkshire
- Erhai reflections at Dali, Yunnan
- Shek O rock pool reflection
- Reflection of Lantau Peak, Shek Pik Reservoir, Lantau, Hong Kong
- Sai Wan sunrise and fans, Tai Long Wan, Hong Kong
- Little Grebe
- Happy bather
- Himalayan Griffon
- Bromo crater view, Java, Indonesia
- Water splashing after Dragon Boat Race
- Sulawesi Black Macaque
- Dong Zhiming, dinosaur hunter
- Grandfather and grandchild, Beidaihe, China, 1985
- Tarsier, Sulawesi
- Tibetan monks playing trumpets
- Damselfy Rhinocypha monochroa
- Northern Gannet pair greeting
- Mountain Dog, Leo Lu
- Qingjing Farm, Taiwan
- Red ferry to Hong Kong, dramatic sky
- Tai Tam Mound Waterfall, Hong Kong
- White-spectacled Warbler
- Ijen sulphur miners, Java, Indonesia
- Jackson Looseyia
- Skeleton Lord, Shangri-La, Yunnan, China
- Bromo dunes with mist, Java, Indonesia
- Late summer bird's eye view of Castle Hill, Scarborough, Yorkshire
- Star Ferry, Hong Kong
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Beihai Old Street, Guizhou, China
- Coral, Seram, Indonesia
- Swinhoe's White-eye
- Pacific Swift
- Male Gould's Sunbird
- Black-faced Spoonbills
- Hoopoe
- Oriental Stork
- Male White-tailed Robin
- Pied Avocets
- Oriental Stork
- Osprey
- Pacific Swift chasing insect
- Black-faced Bunting
- Pied Avocets
- Barn Swallow
- Grey-faced Buzzard
- Kentish Plover, Lantau, HK; OM1 with 300mm and 2x
- Barn Swallow collecting nest material
- Eurasian Curlew
- Pallas' Leaf-Warbler
- Male Chestnut Bunting
- Pacific Swift
- Black Kite and Pied Avocets
- Japanese Cormorant
- Chinese Grosbeak
- Drake Common Teal
- Eastern Buzzard swooping
- pied avocets and asian dowitcher in flight at Mai Po, Hong Kong
- Red-necked Sting on Lantau, Hong Kong; OM1 plus 300mm with 2x
- Common Redshanks and reflection, Lantau; OM1 with 300mm and 2x
- Arctic Warbler, OM1 w 300mm n 1.2x converter
- Waterfall Bay, Hong Kong Island
- Sunset over sea fog west of Cheung Chau
- Trail and huts high on Sunset Peak
- Yi O waterfalls
- Lion Rock with morning mist
- View over Temple Crag, Lantau
- Sunset beyond Lantau, from north Cheung Chau
- Double Haven, northeast New Territories
- Lion Rock in morning sun
- Fan Lau Fort, by drone
- North Cheung Chau and Lantau
- Fan Lau Fort, Lantau
- North Cheung Chau sunset by drone
- Dog Tooth Ridge, Lantau
- Lantau Peak from over southern slopes
- Cheung Chau in morning sun
- Ngong Ping and mist cascading over Lantau Peak
- Sunset over sea fog west of Cheung Chau
- Lion Rock in morning sun
- Trail and huts high on Sunset Peak
- Dawn at Sai Wan, Tai Long Wan
- Hong Kong city and mighty cloud at dawn, viewed from ferry west of the harbour.
- Shek Pik Reservoir reflection, Lantau
- Yi O waterfalls
- Lion Rock with morning mist
- View over Temple Crag, Lantau
- Ngong Ping including Big Buddha and Lantau Peak
- Dog Tooth Ridge, Lantau
- Lantau Peak from over southern slopes
- Po Lin Monastery and Lantau Peak
- Double Haven, northeast New Territories
- Sunset beyond Lantau, from north Cheung Chau
- Ma On Shan
- Cheung Chau at dusk
- Sapling on Lion Head Mountain and mist cascading over Lantau Peak
- Cheung Chau at sunset
- North Cheung Chau and Lantau
- Shek Pik Reservoir Reflection, Lantau
- Tung Wan boats, Cheung Chau
- Lion Head Mountain and mist cascading over Lantau Peak
- Pre dawn at Sai Wan, Hong Kong
- Reflection of Lantau Peak, Shek Pik Reservoir, Lantau, Hong Kong
- North Cheung Chau sunset by drone
- Eastern Buzzard
- Pacific Swift
- pied avocets and asian dowitcher in flight at Mai Po, Hong Kong
- Brown-headed Thrush
- Red-necked Stint
- Grey Bushchat
- Japanese Cormorant
- White's Thrush
- Amur Stonechat
- Large-billed Crow
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Red-billed Blue Magpie
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Chestnut Bulbul
- Common Kestrel
- Great Egret reflection
- Grey-faced Buzzard
- Bull-headed Shrike
- Common Teal
- Black-faced Spoonbill
- Lesser Frigatebird mobbed by Large-billed Crows
- Common Sandpiper
- Fork-tailed Sunbird
- Oriental Stork
- White-spectacled Warbler
- Chinese Sparrowhawk
- Male Scarlet Minivet
- Greater Sandplover
- Chinese Pond Heron n water buffalo
- White-breasted Kingfisher
- Eastern Reef Egret
- Crested Goshawk
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Swinhoe's or Pintail snipe
- Daurian Redstart
- Pied Avocets
- Brown Booby
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Common Sandpiper
- Oriental Stork at Mai Po
- Black-faced Spoonbills
- Amur Stonechat
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Little Grebe
- Pacific Swift
- Pied Avocets
- Scaly-sided Merganser
- Black-faced Bunting
- Fairy Pitta
- Greater Crested Tern
- Hoopoe
- Pallas' Leaf-Warbler
- Osprey
- Eurasian Curlew
- Tristram's Bunting
- Black-faced Spoonbills
- Swinhoe's White-eye
- Oriental Stork
- Relict Gull
- Black Vulture
- Red-necked Sting on Lantau, Hong Kong; OM1 plus 300mm with 2x
- Chinese Sparrowhawk over Lantau
- Common Redshanks and reflection, Lantau; OM1 with 300mm and 2x
- Arctic Warbler, OM1 w 300mm n 1.2x converter
- Pheasant-tailed Jacanas and Little Egret
- White-winged Black Tern
- Trail and huts high on Sunset Peak
- Ngong Ping and mist cascading over Lantau Peak
- Shek Pik Reservoir w reflection
- Ngong Ping including Big Buddha and Lantau Peak
- Feisty crab at Shui Hau
- Fan Lau Fort, by drone
- Sunset at Fan Lau
- Yi O waterfalls
- Silvermine Waterfall on Lantau Island
- Lantau Peak from over southern slopes
- Dog Tooth Ridge, Lantau
- View over Temple Crag, Lantau
- Ibisbill
- White Eared Pheasant
- Tibetan Bunting
- Baikal bush-warbler
- Black-winged Stilt
- Red-necked Stints
- Red-necked Stints
- Snowy-browed Nuthatch
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Pallas' Reed Bunting
- Siberian Meadow Bunting
- Ibisbill
- Amur Falcon
- Common Cuckoo
- Far Eastern Curlew
- Oriental Storks
- Common and Red-crowned Cranes
- Little Egrets
- Saunders' Gull
- Sharp-tailed Sandpipers
- Pallas' Leaf-Warbler
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Yellow-streaked Warbler
- Bar-headed Geese
- Black Storks with Great Egret
- Black-necked Cranes
- Red-tailed Laughingthrush
- Olive-backed Sunbird
- Himalayan Griffon
- White-browed Tit-Warbler
- Red-rumped Swallows
- Long-tailed Tit
- Grey-sided Thrush
- White-rumped Snowfinch
- White-capped Redstart
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Black-necked Cranes
- River Tern
- Red-crowned Cranes
- Himalayan Griffon
- Himalayan Bluetail
- Black-necked Cranes
- Chestnut-vented Nuthatch
- Bar-headed Geese
- Siberian Rubythroat
- Streaked Reed-Warbler
- Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
- Rufous-winged Fulvetta
- White-tailed Nuthatch
- Oriental Storks
- Crested Kingfisher
- Red-throated Thrush
- Blue Whistling Thrush
- Red-wattled Lapwing
- Spur-winged Plover
- HImalayan Griffon
- Temminck's Tragopan
- Fire-tailed Sunbird
- White-rumped Shama
- Blue-winged Laughingthrush
- Bar-headed Geese
- White-throated Bulbul
- Chestnut-tailed Yuhina
- Chinese Spotbill
- Relict Gull
- Siberian Rubythroat
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Collared Falconet
- Oriental Storks
- Citrine Wagtail
- Black-naped Tern and jet ski, Weizhou
- Weizhou sunset
- Weizhou tourists
- "turtle" rock, Weizhou
- Weizhou tourists, shore in crater rim
- Sunset, Weizhou
- Dusk, Weizhou
- Surf's up, sw Weizhou
- Sandworm collector
- Weizhou tourists, shore in crater rim
- Weizhou waterfront at dusk
- Band in a bar, Weizhou
- Weizhou shoreline
- Surf's up, Weizhou
- Black-naped Tern and jet ski, Weizhou
- Theme park performer; tongue on sizzling hot plate
- Olive-backed Sunbird
- Red-necked Stints, Beihai
- Store w echoes of Mao days, Beihai Old Street
- Red-necked Stints, Beihai
- Weizhou beach
- Weizhou at sunset
- Sandworms, Beihai
- Theme park fire eating
- Sandworm collectors
- Statue, Beihai Old Street, indicating times when westerners were here
- Theme park fire eating
- Skulls in theme park
- Sandworm collector
- Beihai Old Street
- Beihai Old Street
- Fortune telling, Beihai
- Model aircraft carrier in Beihai theme park
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Beihai
- Lucky turtle? Beihai
- Cobra in theme park snake show
- Fire eater
- Beihai Old Street
- Outside Dapeng Ancient City
- Store in Dapeng Ancient City
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Dapeng waterfront
- Xichong
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Xichong
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Xichong
- Xichong
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Xichong waterfront, early morning
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Store in Dapeng Ancient City
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Xichong, late aft
- Dapeng Ancient City
- Xichong
- Tourists in Dapeng Ancient City
- Danxia Shan
- Phallic rock
- Danxia Shan
- Steps
- Sign at Danxia Shan
- Tourists at Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan phallic rock
- Danxia Shan view
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan
- liverwort
- liverwort
- Sunrise Pavilion
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan path
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan steep steps
- Danxia Shan reflection
- Danxia Shan
- Danxia Shan
- Sheng Shou Temple
- Eurasian Nuthatch
- Pingyao
- Sheng Shou Temple
- Sheng Shou Temple bridge
- Russet Sparrow
- Qinyuan bridge at night
- Pingyao
- Qinlianbei plantation
- Qinheyuan, old mining site
- Pingyao, house now museum
- Pingyao
- Wax museum in Pingyao
- Pingyao
- Yellow-streaked Warbler
- Sheng Shou Temple
- In Pingyao
- Store in Pingyao
- Pingyao
- Sheng Shou Temple
- Morning mist
- Pingyao
- Qinheyuan forest
- Pingyao, evening
- Grey-sided Thrush
- Pingyao
- Pingyao
- Pingyao boudoir
- Ibisbill
- Baikal bush-warbler
- Butterfly on thistle flowers
- Asian House Martins
- Qinyuan flowers
- Linkong Shan forest trail
- Brown Eared Pheasant
- Elephant statue, Puti temple
- Exhibits in Lufeng Dinosaur Valley
- Hornbill Valley, Yunnan
- Bridge to Burma, Nabang
- Fire-tailed Sunbird
- Cheery girl
- Hikers at Baihualin
- Baihualin cascade
- Villagers in Nabang, on border w Burma
- Lufengosaurus
- Hide in Hornbill Valley
- Forest in southern Gaoligongshan
- Sign at Hornbill Valley
- Horses and driver, Baihualin
- Reclining Buddha, Puti Temple
- Baihalin southern silk road
- North Gaoligongshan forest w mist
- Lufeng exhibition hall
- Nabang, sw Yunnan
- Puti Temple, Mangshi
- Breakfast stall, Nabang
- Puti Temple
- Monks at Burma border, Ruili
- The Old Street, Baihualin, Yunnan
- On the move
- Reef Egret
- Lesser Sandplover
- Wailingding rocky promontory
- Seafood street
- Wailingding waterfront
- Wailingding view to Lantau
- Wailingding harbour
- Pak Tei statue
- Store
- Rocky promontory
- Seafood market
- Seafood street
- Seafood Street, Wailingding
- Ferry to Wailingding
- Wailingding sunset watchers
- Wailingding admiring view
- Common Tailorbird
- Photo taking, Wailingding
- Turnstone and Lesser Sandplover
- View to Lantau from Wailingding
- Hillside view, Wailingding
- Sunset at Wailingding
- Wailingding swimming beach
- beach and rocky promontory
- Stream in high valley
- Host family
- White Eared Pheasant
- Main tent of our accommodation
- Valley of the Cats dusk
- White-rumped Snowfinch
- Yaks
- Valley of the Cats by moonlight
- Stream and crags
- Valley with Buddhist cliff painting
- Himalayan Griffon
- Fast flowing stream
- Valley of the Cats at night
- Yaks and mountains
- Himalayan Marmot
- High crags
- Crags above Valley of the Cats
- Tibetan Bunting
- White-capped Redstart
- Woolly Hare
- White-browed Tit-Warbler
- Couple next door
- Yaks chilling in stream
- Hoopoe
- Lammergeier
- Lammergeier
- Stone Buddha Valley
- Craggy high slopes
- Blue Sheep
- Snow Leopard
- Blue Sheep
- Blue sheep, dappled sunlight
- High slopes
- Backlit flowers
- Black Eagle
- Traditional boats, Lanyu
- Night market stall banana men
- Brown-eared Bulbul, Lanyu
- Taroko Gorge scene
- Hehuanshan near summit
- Hehuanshan sea of clouds
- Taiwan Yuhina
- View from Hehuanshan
- Taroko Gorge scene
- Sea of clouds from near Hehuanshan
- Taroko Gorge scene
- Cape Eluanbi, s tip of Taiwan
- Taiwan Barbet
- White-bellied Erpornis
- Qingjing Farm
- Qingjing Farm woodland road
- Eluanbi lighthouse
- Styan's Bulbul
- Swinhoe's Tree Lizard
- Sail Rock, Kenting
- Brown-headed Thrush
- Banana pancake stall, Kenting
- Kenting night market street
- Kenting night market street
- Formosan Macaque
- Fairy Cave, Kenting
- Lanyu
- Bronzed Drongo
- Butterflies in Cat Tien
- Ben Thanh Market, Ho Chi Minh
- Central Post Office
- Clipper butterfly
- Crocodile Lake sign
- Crossing street in Ho Chi Minh
- Rainy season cycling, Cat Tien
- Ferry passengers, Cat Tien
- River in spage
- River ferry to Cat Tien
- Reunification Palace Reflection
- Downpour!
- Ratchet-tailed Treepie
- Propaganda Bistro, Ho Chi Minh
- Planes at War Remnants Museum
- Orange-bellied Leafbird
- Orange-bellied Leafbird
- White Dragontail
- Tung Tree, Cat Tien
- River in spate, from Forest Lodge
- Great Iora
- Groovy grasshopper
- Notre Dame Cathedral, Ho Chi Minh
- Moluccan Goshawk
- Tropical Swallowtail
- Red-cheeked Parrot
- Orchid
- Pacific Tree Boa
- Stream near Wallace former collecting area, Bacan
- Grasshopper
- Goliath Coucal
- Waterfall on Bacan
- Bacan beach
- Papillo ulysses
- Percher, Bacan
- Cascade, Bacan forest
- Spangled Drongo, Bacan
- Spider, Bacan
- Beach, Bacan
- Brown Cuckoo-Dove
- Golden Bulbul
- Rainforest tree, Bacan
- Shining Flycatcher
- Spices for sale in Bacan market
- Marching for National Day, Bacan
- Cascade, Bacan forest
- Cascade, Bacan forest
- Grasshopper, Bacan
- Fungi, Bacan
- Seafood market, Bacan
- Spider, Bacan
- Damselfly, Bacan
- Barbecued fish stall, Bacan
- Bling! With Bacan stones
- Guys with bling
- Bacan seafood market
- Jungle flower
- Cheery lady on huge jade at Sultan's home
- Bacan creek
- Common Bluebottle
- Grasshopper
- Waterfall, Bacan
- Blue Dock, Bacan
- Dusk, Bacan
- Fish on barbecue, Bacan
- Four young lads, Bacan
- Bajau village, Bacan, Indonesia
- Bacan stones for sale
- Mighty tree in forest
- Spices for sale, Bacan
- Bacan coconut harvesting
- Bacan Fort
- Sunset over Bacan, from fery
- Bacan at dusk
- Damselfy Rhinocypha monochroa
- Yellowfin tuna in market
- Bacan fishing boats
- Sultan's home [at the time]
- Bajau boys leaping into sea
- Bajau village, Bacan, Indonesia
- Bajau man
- Bajau village house
- Bajau man
- Bajau diver
- Bajau village house n boat
- In Bajau village house
- Young Bajau woman
- Young Bajau girls
- Bajau village, kids swimming
- Bajau boy swimming
- Bajau kids swimming
- Bajau village - watching swimming
- Bajau family in house
- Bajau boys leaping into sea
- Bajau lobster photo
- Bajau boy underwater
- Bajau village waterfront
- Bajau boys leaping from boat
- Bajau man showing diving skills
- Bajau house and live seafood store below floor
- Bajau family house
- Bajau village swimmers
- Bajau village
- Bajau village street
- eliza kissya at scrubfowl conservation place
- Moluccan megapode
- making sago
- haruku boy
- mangrove saplings
- haruku kids on cannon from Spice Islands days
- boaters
- Haruku church
- late aft haruku
- milky way over haruku
- haruku signpost
- haruku at night
- eliza kissya at haruku village
- brown butterfly
- haruku fort
- green tree lizard
- haruku fort arch
- eliza kissya at haruku village sign
- soccer at sunset
- eliza kissya awards for conservation
- lodge on haruku
- merry christmas, yearlong maybe
- Coral, Seram, Indonesia
- Brahminy Kite Seram
- Splendid coral Seram
- Greater Crested Terns north Seram
- Resort Seram, Sawaii
- Blue fish and coral Seram
- Pacific Swallow, Seram
- Sacred Kingfisher, Seram
- Pied Imperial Pigeon, Seram
- Sawaii, Seram
- Orchid, Seram
- Corals, north Seram
- Striped Dolphins, nr Seram
- Striped Dolphins, nr Seram
- Seram White-eye, Indonesia
- Girls paddling big canoe, Seram
- Sawaii, Seram, Indonesia
- Children sorting cloves, Seram
- Seram Friarbird
- Canoeing girls, Sawaii, Seram
- Sawarna
- Curug Sodong
- Gunung Papandayan
- Sunda Scops Owl
- Mighty waves, from Antarctic storms
- Sawarna with breaking waves
- Sawarna by drone
- Take care - dangerous waves
- Fisherman at Ujung Genteng
- Greater Crested Terns
- Ujung Gentent
- Farmland in Ciletuh Geopark
- Southern Java coast w mighty waves
- Pakangpang Beach
- Huge waves at high tide
- Fishermen pushing boat to safety Ujung Genteng
