We had 4 Beijing, China guests for this customize bird photography tour. On the arrival pick up, seem like each of everyone has different target … but all have common interest on raptor and owl … than immediate fine tune the location again to try to cover most the possible owls

We are lucky enough to have most the plan targets picture except a missed on Silver Breasted Broadbill .. missed the good chance while looking for another target 🙁

almost can conclude this is a owl tour where we search for owls almost every night and day time 😀 , guests really enjoy to see and photograph the owls ..

 

This trip, we follow KL-Kuala Selangor-Fraser Hill-Bukit Tinggi

DAY1

for start , we tried to search for Buffy-Fish Owl… we got 2 in the day time but too bad they are bit shy and playing hide and seek with us

very soon , we also found another Owl day roosting . where we got 2 in same tree .. a Brown-Hawk Owl

with extra effort at night , we were lucky to have another 2 owls ; Barn Owl and Spotted Wood-Owl…

in same day make it 4

When we almost end our day, Large-tailed Nightjar stand still for us for a good view

 

DAY 2

we spend morning inside a mangrove .  lucky to have Crested Goshawk, little late for Crested Serpent-Eagle feeding when we stop our car. We actually saw the male bring the snake to the female .

we also got various woodpeckers nearby mangrove e.g. Rufous Woodpecker ,Common Flameback+Greater Flameback fighting for same stand

after morning walk, we heading Fraser Hill… on the way we got various bird like Whiskered Treeswift, Red-bearded Bee-eater stand close and long for us

 

immediate arrive Fraser Hill, we actually got Malaysian Hill Partridge family

 

as usual , we tried quick night walk for owl again.. very lucky we got our 5th owl : Brown Wood-Owl in less than 30minutes

we end our day with laugh and smile 😀

 

DAY3

in the Morning, we had our Red-headed Trogon displaying for us ~1 hour make guests fill up almost card for single beauty

we also had our Fire-tufted Barbet fill up guests another card again

 

beside the 2 star birds, we also have pygmy Wren-Babbler, lesser short wing, long-tailed sibia , SIlver ear mesia etc .. but we still missing our SIlver Breasted Broadbill.

at Night , we managed to see another Brown-Wood Owl and also a gray nightjar

 

DAY 4

we rushing from Fraser Hill to Bukit Tinggi. we able to had Mountain Peacock-Pheasant displaying and Ferruginous Partridge in pair …

 

Banded Kingfishers (both male and female), Rufous-Collard Kingfisher,Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle etc seem show customer good view

 

most the pictures captured using handhled .. and am too busy sharing all .. and birding season here seem getting active .. let’s birding