Frogmouth

Pitta and Flycatcher

2012-04-29T21:15:00.001-07:00

April 28, 2012 two more lifers added to my bird list now counting to 341. Quite challenging to photograph these birds as one in dark while the other fast moving while catching flies in the air.

BORNEAN BANDED PITTA

GREY-HEADED CANARY FLYCATCHER

Happy birding...

Horsfield's Babbler

2012-04-17T19:41:00.000-07:00

It seem I manage to get a new bird to add to my bird list everytime I go birding this year. My number to new birds hard to go up last year whereas this year few birds already added.

I can not tell this bird in the field other than babbler but the sound and the color of the bird is the only my guide helping me to identify at home through book. It hard to photograph it because it moved from one small branch to another of almost non-stop jumping. It is my 337th. collection of the year 2012.

Happy birding.

Whitehead's broadbill.

2012-04-12T22:36:00.000-07:00

Taken on the April 7, 2012 and another lifer of the year. Elusive birds and was lucky enough to find both male and female birds. A day earlier was just a glance of the male flying acorss us over the road. We got hold of them after appealing on the next day. It is a collection of 336th. birds shot in Borneo.

Male bird.

Female bird.

Happy birding.

Sunda Bush Warbler

2012-04-03T05:09:00.006-07:00

Recently birding with friends at Crocker Range Park, Tambunan. Upon reaching up there the weather was so windy and foggy. Luckily condition was better just for while and managed to shot this bird. It was so active and most of the time under and inside the bushes.

SUNDA BUSH WARBLER

Happy birding.

Dusky Broadbill

2012-03-12T06:22:00.002-07:00

It is my lifer for the new year 2012. I have been collecting 335th. birds shot in Borneo. They were 5 altogether seen and four of these birds I quess just newly fully grown and still lead by one adult which a parent. As observe 4 birds were always together and one kept its distance away. The 4 birds were also keeping making sound which indicating where they were or calling the parent.

Happy birding.

Black-headed Gull

2011-12-22T06:25:00.001-08:00

December 22, 2011 I think the last migratory bird I see around the my living area. It is big bird flocking among the whiskered terns that I see almost all the year round today.

Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Happy birding.

STARLING

2011-12-08T17:10:00.000-08:00

On the December 7, 2011 there are another 2 rare birds found at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah state after the Pied Avocet. Beside these 2 starlings, a Blue-tailed Bee-eater sighted in the same area and photographed by avid photograpers and also rare species. The year of 2011 are best year of birds rarity incarnation in the country.

Red-billed Starling (Sturnus sericeus)

Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Happy birding.

Pied Avocet

2011-12-04T08:01:00.000-08:00

On December 2, 2011, this bird was found at Tuaran Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. It is a lifer to everybody. Almost all birders in the State are rushing to the site and I spent half a day watching and photograping this lovely bird.

Happy birding.

Waders

2011-10-31T04:00:00.001-07:00

Another waders are found this year 2011. I am consider lucky that I am able to see these birds almost every year. The phalarope is not predictable to where it uses to be except as long there is water. I was even find it on a small pool of water in the middle of the road and I just could not believe it when I saw it.

Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)

Happy birding.

Oriental Plover (Charadrius veredus)

2011-10-08T19:48:00.001-07:00

After searching for about 4 years and at last I got this bird from friends Eugene Cheah and Andrew Siani information. My next target will be Long-billed Plover which is hard to identify from Little Ringed Plover especially at juvenile stage.

Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)

At the same day in the field two of these birds were also there and its existance is every year.

Happy birding.

Asian Paradise Flycatcher

2011-06-18T06:04:00.000-07:00

After waiting for almost 4 years for good pictures of this bird finally ended. Add to my knowledge of how these birds looking after their baby. They are by turn searching foods for their chick. One go and another stay.

Happy birding.

Surfing

2011-06-12T05:05:00.000-07:00

Surfing is another healthy activity and just quite surprising that when I turning to our beach, a number of surfers surfing and quite a numbers watchers sit still on the rock along the beach watching them surfing too.

Casting non-stop urine?????

2011-05-11T06:13:00.000-07:00

Birding is one of very good activities. Giving good exercise to human bodies. When you go for birding, 100% sure that you are breathing clean air. You are giving carbon dioxide to trees and in return you receive oxygen from them. What is a healthy air!! Then, what you see when you are birding....wow! many beautiful birds, many insects, many mammals.....minute living things and what else..... oohhh...many many many more....beautiful flowers etc. Then incredibly what I saw was an inesct-CICADA-casting water unbelieveable intermittently but non stop from its body. May be this insect is drying itself and die because this insect life is very short. See the movie that I record. Have you seen this before?

Shooting at RDC

2011-04-25T21:00:00.000-07:00

I went to Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sandakan last week attentionally for Ruddy Kingfisher which was seen two days ago before I reached the location. Birding there for two days but no sign of Ruddy Kingfisher seen. Hopefully next time. While came and went from the location, I shot other birds. There were many birds seen but I could digiscoped a few only. I missed Bornean Bristlhead too.

Crested Serpent Eagle

Red-naped Trogon
Scarlet-rumped Trogon
Diard's Trogon
Black-backed Kingfisher

Additional bird to my bird list.

Black Hornbill

Red-bearded bee-eater

Bronze Drongo

Oriental Cuckoo

2011-04-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

It was so wonderful taking pictures with these birds. They were not so active though busy looking for food. Thanks to Wan Iskandar Buniyamin for taking me to the place where he found these birds. These birds are my lifers.

Female bird.
Male bird.
This one was staying on the ground to catch worms.
and so this male bird.

Happy birding.

Blyth's hawk eagle

2011-04-11T05:31:00.000-07:00

There was nothing to do yesterday, a friend Denis took me to Crocker range for birding.

Very interesting moments when he called me for this bird. More pictures of this bird at his blog. Thank you Denis.

Happy birding.

Rails

2011-04-09T06:09:00.001-07:00

Excitedly seeing many rails in the paddyfield. They are about ten of them. I hardly see this many before and most of the time I see one rail only and not approachable. When this bird see you, it quickly runs away to the bushes.

Slaty-breasted Rail.

Buff-banded Rail.

Happy birding.

Black-and-red Broadbill

2011-04-07T06:46:00.001-07:00

This is a lowland forest bird but it can be seen near the roadside fresh water pond during nesting (so far that I have seen). It can go up quite higher altitude too.

This is how this bird nest look like. The nest usually is on the the dead tree on the fresh water pond.
Happy birding.

Oriental Prantincole

2011-04-05T06:53:00.001-07:00

Many of these birds in the field. I do not see them present in the field until suddenly flocks of them fly off to the air when Black-shouldered kite come near them.

They fly more higher than the Black-shoulder kite does to avoid being get capture.

Happy birding.

Somekind Grasshopper?

2011-04-01T21:35:00.000-07:00

It was been hard day yesterday birding because there were no birds to photograph. But I enjoyed the cool mountain breeze though beside that I did birdwatching only. At the end of the day before leaving home, I found this little snow-white grasshopper-like.

Happy birding.

Surviving the cute Spotted Dove chick! 27. 03. 2011

2011-03-27T02:45:00.000-07:00

I find this chick by the side of the road near my house. It is luckily no cats around otherwise that the end of it. I try to find its nest but can not find. So no where to release it and I am trying to save it. Hoping I manage to save it till it fledge.

Yes it is cute.
I modify the stud for food and water container for the chick.
I buy the chick food from pet shop.
I try to feed the chick but fail as its mouth I can not open. I feel happy because the bird at least can sip the water when I dip its beak into the water.
There it is inside the plastic container safely.
It is covered so that it will not get rain.
Happy birding.

Chinese Religion parade - 26/03/2011

2011-03-26T05:50:00.000-07:00

For the first time I see the Chinese community here in Kota Kinabalu city having or do religion parade in the town. When I see this occasion.....I say "Oohh this is may be something like how Chinese do every year or particular day/days in China commemorating/celebrating/praying."

Like very much to see them with beautiful and colorful dresses. May be next to see is Hinduism?

Watercock

2011-03-13T07:07:00.000-07:00

This bird is quite large as big as the black-backed swamphen. I am not sure about this bird but the feeling that this is a male non-breeding bird. Hope one day shall have a chance to see the male-breeding with long red frontal shield.

Happy birding.

Red Avadavat

2011-03-09T17:49:00.001-08:00

These small birds are very active this morning. Hardly seen without binoculars. I caught one of them yesterday at late afternoon. Appealing again this morning for better images. These thus far best images I manage which are better than yeasterday one. Rare birds to be found here in Kota Kinabalu. My first time seeing them on the field and is my lifer.

Happy birding...

Birding at Kinabalu National Park and Poring.

2011-03-08T06:25:00.000-08:00

Poring hot-spring, Ranau is popular and wonderful place to visit. Most people going there is simply to take bath and dipping themselves in its hot water pools where the water spring out from the deep earth. More infromation from this website:

http://www.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/poring.html.

Scaly-breasted Bulbul (Pycnonotus squamatus)

Red-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonotus brunneus)
White-crowned Shama (Copsychus stricklandii barbouri)
White-crowned Forktail (Enicurus leschenaulti)
Happy birding.