both of me and Ahli were busy for whole Aug – Sept and finally have time sharing some highlights for this month 2016 Sept … with mixture of bird watching and photography guests we got some chance to record or request picture share by our guests
– happy to see few new chicks feeding by adult which mean we have more new generation of these birds 😀
Yellow Bellied Bulbul
– black–throated babbler
– Malayan Banded Pitta , Juvi female
– Marble Wren-Babbler,石纹鹪鹛 not very open picture but happy to see the family growth
– one of the beautiful endemic for Peninsular Malaysia . Mountain Peacock-Pheasant, 山孔雀雉
– very good view of the shy Marble Wren-Babbler,石纹鹪鹛
– this beautiful Rail-babbler,白眉长颈鸫, Eupetes macrocerus still show up constantly
– Garnet Pitta , 榴红八色鸫, Erythropitta granatina – another beautiful and shy bird from Malaysia ..
– Large Scimitar Babbler,大钩嘴鹛 , Pomatorhinus hypoleucos another bird that make us look left right front and back 😀
we have more birds cover for either bird watching or photography but not all birds we have pictures from guests or capture by us ..
**** we will keep this update as today just 9 sept 2016
We receive a request for 3 days (even it is 12-15 but it is half day for start and end date) … special request RAIL-BABBLER is a must !!! and with a limited bird list to add on his 52xx++ bird count with few tour SEA before ..
Immediate from Airport to our first destination KRAU forest, we got our 1st target : Javan Myna !!!! very soon , we arrive KRAU for our target … and we managed to got full open view of Malaysian Rail-Babbler as 2nd bird and TARGET meet 😀
immediate we continue for other birds target and for day 1 we managed to have 8 lifers and main target meet ..
LANCHANG
12 Jun 2016
9:00 AM
Traveling
15.00 km
360 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
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We change our plan to Bukit Tinggi instead Taman Negara (original 2nd plan for Rail-Babbler) for more lifers … with very good morning start we managed to got 9 lifers with all good open view of Moutain Peacock Pheasant , Black Laughingthrush , Chestnut-backed Scimitar-Babbler, etc
Bukit Tinggi
13 Jun 2016
7:00 AM
Traveling
5.00 km
180 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
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Immediate after Lunch we heading Fraser and we managed to get another 8 lifers which include star bird of Malayan Hill Patridge, Bamboo Woodpecker, Rufous-Bellied Swallow.
Bukit Fraser
13 Jun 2016
1:00 PM
Traveling
10.00 km
420 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
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we have another morning for Fraser Hill , and we continue for more challenge birds target. and with the late lunch we managed to got another 10 lifers .. a good start with Malayan Whistling-Thrush which appear after long wait in the cold morning, it just show up on the road . Follow by Javan Cuckooshrike, Silver-Breasted Broadbill with little challenge … with luck we managed to got Marbled Wren-Babbler & Large Scimitar-Babbler with good view and long enough … last bird before late lunch below to lue Nuthatch.
Bukit Fraser
14 Jun 2016
7:00 AM
Traveling
40.00 km
600 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
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1 Spotted Dove
1 Large-tailed Nightjar
1 House Swift 1 Fire-tufted Barbet
1 Speckled Piculet 1 Silver-breasted Broadbill 2 Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike
2 Black-and-crimson Oriole
1 White-throated Fantail
2 Sultan Tit 1 Blue Nuthatch 2 Large Scimitar-Babbler 1 Marbled Wren-Babbler 1 Silver-eared Mesia
1 Asian Fairy-bluebird
1 Verditer Flycatcher 1 Lesser Shortwing 2 Malayan Whistling-Thrush
3 Slaty-backed Forktail 1 White-tailed Robin
Number of Taxa: 20
after the lunch , we have no luck till next day (raining) and we missed our the other easy target 🙁
for the 3 days birding , Dutch guest managed to have 35 lifers and MAIN target meet
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