BLUE-BANDED KINGFISHER

Another lifer of the year 2013 and it missed me sadly when it showed at very quick glance and disappeared to the dark undergrowth and hoping it would be back perching like other fishers with no  shy at all so that I could take as possible nice picture as I could. Then we kept waiting for its next appearance. After an hour or so it really showed up landing on a nice dead wood branch for rather good long time for me to digiscope. What an excited moment!!!. It was just enough time for me to focus on nicely before it flew away from us. It was just happy moment for us to have this seen and photograph this rare little bird.
Happy birding.

Happy New Year 2013 to all fellow birders. Last year was slow to see and photograph birds and hoping this year I shall getting more birds and this partridge as first lifer of the new year seem to be a good start in search of new species.

Red-breasted hill partridge

Orange-headed Thrush

Got this bird after 3rd. outing. Friends have been going to the place where this bird is and came back home with lovely nice pictures of it. I was just felt sad and disappointed to myself for failing not even a glance of it for first 2 outings. Then when I was having few photos of this bird, I was feeling relief and just happy. With it my collection goes to 347 species shoot in Borneo. And location where this bird I got is at Rafflesia Centre,  Tambunan, Sabah Borneo, Malaysia...

ORANGE-HEADED THRUSH

Happy birding.

Pitta and Flycatcher

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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?????

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

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