EGRETS

Today wheather is quite fine until about in the afternoon drizzling follow with winds making me moving home. Both colors of Pacific Reef Egrets appear and excited to see the white morph which hardly to everyday compare to the black morph. Other egrets there are Great egrets, Little Egrets and Cattle egrets

Pacific Reef Egret (White Morph)

Pacific Reef Egret (Black Morph)
Great Egret (Breeding)
Non-breeding and breeding egrets.



Happy birding.

Long-tailed Broadbill

It is finally the end of searching for this bird. I am just like nobody alone photographing this bird early morning today. Never expecting seeing almost black color bird flying to a tree where I stand is this broadbill. Wow! The Long-tailed Broadbill. My lifer as well!

Happy birding.

TEST - Digiscoping System Shake

Here I test my digiscoping system for effectiveness of my shutter release support

Please refer here:

http://sinooorita.blogspot.com/2010/12/diy-shutter-release-stand-for-sony-nex.html

In this picture I even try to use the Tripod head handle to stop further any shake may occur to the digiscoping system. It helps as well to prevent any shake.

My test result are compare as in the picutre. Picture on the left is better image while on the right slightly blur.
Here can not be seen much which picture is better but the left picture below is for the left picture above which actual picture cropped only.
This woman is rubbing her eyes and want to take her bath. It looks like she is having an eye-sore or sleep very late!!!!
Soooo improve your digiscoping birding system so that no SHAKE and get a good, better, best SHOT!!!!

Happy birding....

Dark-sided flycatcher

The only bird that I manage to digiscope and soon after that rain pour down. I wait till it stops but continue on raining. So I go home. Happy New Year 2011 and Happy birding.

Puff-backed bulbul

I can not confirm which bulbul this bird belong. I saw this bird was together with a few birds of White-bellied Yuhina which is probably twice or three times as big. Feet are black and so the beak which much different from Ochraceous Bulbul and with this clue that lead me to identify as Puff-backed Bulbul though much doubtful that the back color of the bird is not that puff but more like olive.

Anyone could identify for me for actual name of this bird. Thank you.

Happy birding.

Eurasian Teal

These ducks have been here at Tuaran, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah for days now. The male has showing changing of face feathers pattern.

This first picture was taken last few days ago. A male and a female ducks.

These are taken today at late afternoon. The green eye-patch is appearing a little above the eye. Hope they will be here till the male full pattern face showing for pictures.

Happy birding.

Tourists at the beach.

As usual I go to beach to see for any new birds present and non new and only see the usual birds on the beach. There are tourists strolling and found horseshoe crabs crawling on the sand and they take photographs of them, then they take them to water to release.
Malaysian Plover.

Happy birding.