Another bird into my frame (picture lifer) , beside Marbled Wren-Babbler .. this is another big wren-babbler .. and again it behave like other Wren-Babbler , skittish, flying around, calling non stop , calling laugh .. etc ….
As usual, saw this bird in the forest but most the time without camera or just flip seconds ..
另一只令人又爱又恨的鸟。总是跳来跳去，见人飞，也喜欢叫。就如其他 鹪鹛
– it calling non stop while we waiting for other birds nearby .. and when we try trace it for photo no success for ~1hour .. end up we chase it with handheld !!!! … in the dark forest
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For Peninsula Malaysia a blackbird that loves to moving fast in the forest …. we make a trip just for this bird .. but found out it is not really active but was lucky it appear for food just 10-15min before we leaving … ~33cm
For Borneo ~28cm , smaller . Brownish color but behave same, moving fast and making a lot of noise.
– finally all 5 special 2 bird family tours done for Rail-Babbler & this Jayshrike .. this year lucky to have 100% . This bird normally quite straight forward but it missing for the 1st day and only heard but without show us . Day2, early morning when we step down from car, immediate I heard the call within 2 minutes we got the bird and Bingo !!
– another special trip to this “South” of Peninsular Malaysia but this time we actually target only Malaysian Rail-Babbler and Cinnamon-rumped Trogon. Day1 , we already have this bird again with better view and photo and the Rail-Babbler give a good view but …
– an active bird that everyone seem special look for this bird family
– another very good encounter from Borneo, which smaller and color different from Peninsular Malaysia/Thailand species (which is bigger and Black)
– not really sure just me, it getting difficult to have good view for this bird at Borneo .. it just get more shy compare to before pandemic
– 在婆罗洲行，另一只突然听到，看到，拍到的好鸟。与马来西亚西马，泰国的颜色不一样+小一点。
– 不知道是我而已还是有点变化，疫情前蛮容易看到。可是疫情后，几乎那个地方都很害羞。
202405, Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia
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update 202406
– a uncommon special bird family, a very black and active bird to be seen. It is not easy almost whole Malaysia except some South part of Malaysia
– we keep heard and miss this special bird for a long tour but it is so easy at the end of the extension.
– 蛮不普通的其中一种鸟种。非常害羞，活跃。几乎都不容易见到，除了在西马南部
– 19天观鸟团，就见到它飞来飞去。非常不容易，就在加长部分非常容易就见到了。
202406, Lenggor, Johor, Malaysia
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update 202307
– a special Rail-Babbler tour, and what a bonus of so many special birds included this cool looking, active bird.
– 白眉长颈鸫特别团，也看到很多很特别的鸟。包括这只稀有，害羞，有形有款的黑鸟。
202307, Lenggor, Johor, Malaysia
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– an early morning with quite heavy rain, while I am waiting in the car a group of 5 birds keep flying around and making calls. I still walking out to captured some pictures and 2 sg Bird Photographers join me the raining chasing fun
– a black bird, use to be very active and shy. But not this time, very friendly to us.
– a very special bird to be seen and it was a 2nd bird of the day and it make our good day and trip 2 hour travel. It stay for very long for us to have very good view, pictures, videos.
– 一只非常活跃，害羞的鸟。这次非常的友善。站了很久很近，让我们拍的好好的。
20230216, Lenggor, Johor, Malaysia
update 202105
– just another 2017 archive picture, never get bored to see this special bird which really noisy in the forest and active moving around
sometime , we complaint we need darker … when ??? why ???
in the noon, under bright sun exposure what if we need more stop down ? and we can have option combine more ND filters e.g. 10 stops and 6 stops filter or now we have option to have single filter in 15 stops down …
e.g. under hot sun out setting for no ND is ISO100 , F2.8 (to have bokeh for some effect) , SS 1/1000
with Big Stopper or ND 3.0/10 stops ND … we can have 1s exposure .. but than the 1s may be not good enough … and what a 15 stops ND (Super Stopper) can do for us
it will give you 30s even the original shutter speed is 1/1000 … !!!!!
few eg. with Big Stopper , combine of Big Stopper and Little Stopper .. so now with single filter we can get longer exposure 😀
We have day trip due to full schedule , original plan was going Fraser Hill but on the way.. it is tree fall down which block our way up and we make quick decision travel back to KRAU forest and may be quick one for Genting Highlands … we have total 65 species view and ~40 lifers for guest … with both Silver Breasted Broadbill and Rail Babbler clear view make the happy day .
Our reach is 9am which is slight late but we are doing very good in the morning 9am-1pm which we have 42 species and wonderful and clear view of RAIL Babbler …
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Javan myna
Common myna
Pacific swallow
White throat kingfisher
Scarlet backed flowerpecker
Yellow vented bulbul
White breasted waterhen
Greater coucal
Zebra dove
Spotted dove
Purple heron
Little egret
Magpie robin
Greated racket tailed drongo
Red jungle fowl
White rumped shama
Black headed bulbul
Oriental pied hornbill
Black hornbill
Stork billed kingfisher
Little grebe
Lesser whistling duck
Gold whiskered barbet
Dollar bird
Black tighted falconet
Red eye bulbul
Stripe throated bulbul
Rail babbler
Black throated babbler
Banded woodpecker
Raffles malkoha
Sooty barbet
Ferruginous babbler
Whiskered treeswift
Black and yellow broadbill
Short tailed babbler
Black and red broadbill
Dark throat oriole
Long billed spider hunter
Rufous collard kingfisher
Rufous backed kingfisher
Green billed malkoha
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than we travel to Genting Highland after our quick lunch …..
on the way, our toilet stop add in 5 new birds
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Olive backed sunbird
Pied thriller
Rufous woodpecker
Pied fantail
Dark necked tailorbird
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follow by another 3 hours at Genting Highland which include Awana we have 17 species
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Malayan laughingthrush (chesnut crown)
Mountain leaf warbler
Snowy browed flycatcher
Black throat sunbird
Glossy swiftlet
Blue winged leafbird
Chesnut capped laughingthrush
Mountain fulvetta
Yellow bellied warbler
Silver breasted broadbill
Verditer flycatcher
Chesnut backed scimitars babbler
Hill blue flycatcher
Black-browed
Silver ear mesia
Everett’s White-eye
Peregrine Falcon
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finally back from another Photohunters outing 2016 May, Bali, Indonesia ..
we travel mostly center of Bali … and Skip the west path from the map as it is my own extension travel …
we had 13 of us , shooting non stop from sunset, nightscape, sunrise, slow shutter etc … and most of us feel tired after 2-3 days the outing but all seem enjoy the shooting session till last moment .
sharing some pictures from the tour below
1. Group Photo at Kintamani
2. solo shooting , sunrise on left site and my buddy Gung facing there and I am turning to south direction because saw this 😀
3. while we shoot sunset at Mengening Beach, Bali … saw the pre wedding shooting so I try to snap and go lo
4. stand from Sanur Beach
5. Sanur Beach always with Mist !!!!! and a dream boat 😀
6. main target .. nightscape .. not bad everynight also we got clear sky for the milky way shooting
7. cold place and trying different angle and someone camping here !!!!
8. after Milky way .. sunrise here with mist is best but still need to redo due to wrong info by my buddy Gung
9. again high tide !!!! never got chance to shoot low tide here 🙁 but love the golden light hit on the gold rock
10. lovely Jatiluwih paddy field layes, Mount Agung, Moon, blue hours, beautiful sky 😀
11. new spot for Milky way … good to come here by May-Jun 😀 new technique to shoot milky reflection
12. think my last visit this spot .. getting dirty and worst
13. sunset moment .. but think lack of foreground but end up I take another foregound from other place become .. but need more time to post
14. finally got beautiful shoot from here but sunrise direction is way out this month 😀
15. remember bring tele len .. you wont know when u need for landscape 😀
16. light up !!!!
17. think the only time I visit Jatiluwih at Green … and this time we got GREEN + Milky Way 😀
Birding with Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f4.0 PRO Lens | liewwk
I am lucky to have this len with me for 2 days testing … I brought this len to various locations for real world testing … from bright, dark, lowland, montane etc ..
with the small sensor size, this 300mm F4 make to 600mm F4 (35mm sensor equivalent) and it weight only 2.15kg together with EM1 body, battery grip, batteries ….. so if weight is main concern than this len could be yours choice.
*** all the birds pictures, RAW-JPEG just increase contrast, saturation and resize no noise reduction etc
*** will be slowly update more pictures upon request
We start the test at low light and some action bird .. rufous-backed kingfisher feeding on fish .. immediate after got the fish, this bird non stop flipping the fish and it may stop for a moment every once and than .. so have to got the moment right to have this capture [click image for bigger resolution image]
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follow by the lovely and beautiful Garnet Pitta, where at not very dark environment …
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beautiful Green Magpie
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we “endemlaiscguides.com” having CANADA guest for birds watching KRAU – Kuala Lumpur for any bird … but we end our tour ~4pm due to hot weather and Jet lag …
Overall we had very good morning … good view and some good pictures of Garnet Pitta, Rufous Collard Kingfisher, little green pigeon… it follow by Whiskered Treeswift nest , make customer feel amaze .
than we also got very good view of Bamboo Woodpecker & Rufous Backed Kingfisher
31 species and guest need 10 lifer to hit 2000 birds count .. good luck 😀 [not verify which are lifer]
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Black magpie
Asian koel
Little grebe
White-throated kingfisher
Stork-billed kingfisher
Little green pigeon
Pink necked pigeon
White-breasted Waterhen
Spotted dove
Oriental pied hornbill
Magpie robin
Javan myna
Black head bulbul
Red eye bulbul
Black-thighed Falconet
Short tailed babbler
Black-throated babbler
Ferruginous babbler
Rufous collard kingfisher
Purple heron
Yellow-bellied Bulbul
White rumped shama
Garnet pitta
Stripe-throated Bulbul
Whiskered Treeswift
Golden-bellied Gerygone
Bamboo woodpecker
Rufous backed kingfisher
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Dark-throated oriole
Large woodshrike
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