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Look For Habitats – Not Birds
Yet again we are in a LOCKDOWN situation – I am not sure if it is a cause for comfort - but I am told that this time it is a SMART LOCKDOWN. I have not bothered to find out how smart is a smart...
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Be Innovative - Never Give Up!
For the past close to two months I have been unfailing in my chase of a pint-sized bird called Winter Wren(Troglodytes hiemalis) – every day: morning afternoon and evening. That is close to 200 hours...
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Did We Jump The Gun?
I am overcome by a sense of foreboding – I fear that Bhutan may have now entered an extremely dangerous phase in our relentless struggle to contain the pandemic. For the past two years Bhutan had done...
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Never Write Off Anything
After a marathon more than two months of chasing it - more than two hundred hours of tracking it - day after day, and having photographed the tiny fellow more than six hundred times, I am calling it a...
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The Ukraine Tragedy And The Danger It Represents To Humanity
Hi Brian,Greetings from Bhutan. It is my hope that this finds you well and safe.One Ms. Barb Roberts of Australia tells me that she has deposited a sum of $200.00 into the bank account of Disaster Aid...
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Mysterious Exports By Bhutan
When in 1984 I visited the USA, I asked a senior US government official if he knew where Bhutan was – he said YES - The Bahamas. Our isolation was so total that ninety five percent of the human...
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Languished for 20 Years inside Bhutan Customs' Warehouse!!
I can sense that not many Bhutanese are interested in our history. We should be – because history can reveal to us why we ARE where we are – including why we are NOT where we are not. History is...
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Bhutan’s Postage Stamps: Fakes & Counterfeits
As I mentioned in my yesterday’s post, while the country was still relatively an unknown entity, it appears that our postage stamps attracted a number of fakers and counterfeiters. In a way it should...
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P1 : A Very Expensive Joke
The Punatsangchu Hydropower Projects I is now becoming a joke – a very expensive joke. Today’s Kuensel tells us that the DPR for the proposed barrage to be located 820 Meters upstream of the project...
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Is It Dzongkha or Zhungkha?
With due respect to one Mr. Namgay Wangchuk who authored the following article in today’s Kuensel, I would like to offer my point of view on the issue, which is in variance to that of his.The only...
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In Photography There Is No Such Thing As PERFECT
Having spent decades doing photography, I have come to learn that there is no such thing as a perfect shot. Every time you decide that it cannot get any better, it does get better. Look at the...
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Burst My Bubble!
On the morning of 12th March, 2022 I woke up a much sprightlier person – in the knowledge that next day we would all be delivered out of our prolonged Bardo. First thing I did was wash my car to a...
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A Joke In Poor Taste!
Generally I am out of the house by about 6.30AM – headed into the woods to do bird photography. But this morning I cancelled the program and instead decided to do some reading.The online media...
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Preparing for the Inevitable Surge
The New York Times reported that:“China is grappling with its largest surge of Covid-19 infections since the coronavirus first emerged more than two years ago in central China. Sustained outbreaks in...
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Splendid Incompetence
It has finally happened – the Ministry of Agriculture, Royal Government of Bhutan has, after close to half a century, finally begun to make a hazy sense of the difference between the terms “Buyback”...
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Plastic Ban: Unenforced For The Past 20 Years
What is constant in Bhutan is that strangest and the most incredible things are a routine occurrence in a country we believe to be unique. Take, for instance, the following Kuensel’s news...
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Testing The Bird Photographers’ Presence of Mind
For casual bird photographers – such as birders, bird guides and ornithologists, just getting an image of a bird will suffice – they only need them for identification purpose, or for record or to study...
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The Famous Zoro is Silent Key
I am saddened to read of the sad demise of Mr. Yasuo Miyazawa of Japan. May he rest in peace - I offer my condolences to his family and pray that they have the strength to bear the loss of a man who...
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A Green Revolution In The Making
It is sad that I have to see this during my lifetime – the Royal Government of Bhutan being forced to step in and take over farming from the farming communities of the country. Obviously the Bhutanese...
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Honoring A Brilliant Reader
I am not sure if anyone else can rival me in Bhutan – in the number of blog posts. As of today, including this post, statistics show that my Blog has a staggering 903 articles!In truth the number does...
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