Armed with a Canon R6 II (big upgrade from my old 80D) and the huge 200-800mm lens, I'm hoping to get back into photography after a long hiatus. Well, timing could be better given everything happening around us... Anyways let's see how these turned out.

Some exports I've published at photos/birb, videos linked here have bird footage and BTS for the shots.

Bird Photography in South Vietnam

Starting at Dong Nai reserve in protected hides. Some species covered here are:

• Ochraceous Bulbul
• Common flame back woodpecker
• Laced woodpecker
• Asian brown flycatcher
• Taiga flycatcher
• Black and red broadbill
• Indochinese blue flycatcher
• Greater racket-tail drongo
• Racket tail treepie
• Silver-breasted broadbill
• Siberian blue robin
• Black crested bulbul
• Siamese fireback pheasant

Next up, at hot and humid Cat Tien National park:

• White-throated Kingfisher
• Red Junglefowl
• Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush
• Oriental Magpie-Robin
• Racket-tailed Treepie
• Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
• Germain's Peacock-Pheasant
• Bar-bellied Pitta
• Black and red Broadbill
• Orange breasted Trogon
• Ashy Drongo
• Common Hoopoe

Heading to Bidoup National Park close to Da Lat, some birds found on the way:

• Verditer Flycatcher
• Indochinese Barbet
• Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike

Glad to have brought a Fujifilm XM-5 with the kit 15-45mm for these shots, great colors out of the box.

In Bidoup, lot more bird species were visible:

• Collared Laughing Thrush
• White-cheeked Laughing Thrush
• White-tailed Robin
• Black-browed Fulvetta
• Mountain Fulvetta
• Gray-bellied Tesia
• White-browed Scimitar-Babbler
• Rufous-throated Partridge
• Spotted Forktail
• Slaty-backed Forktail
• Snowy-browed Flycatcher
• Silver eared Mesia
• Large Niltava

Next up, explored Da Lat city (town), lovely clean, small town with all modern facilities and amenities.

Finally to finish up, tried some unusually slow shutter photography in Di Linh plateau. Some birds seen here:

• Brown Shrike
• Flavescent Bulbul
• Gray Bushchat
• Mrs. Gould's Sunbird
• Common Myna
• Blue Pitta
• Puff-throated Bulbul
• Buff-breasted Babbler
• White-throated Rock-Thrush
• Blue-rumped Pitta
• Silver-breasted Broadbill
• Bar-backed Partridge

Trip by DCP Expeditions, and Dr Caesar.