endemicguides Birds Report – 2016 March 16-19 – Bukit Tinggi – KRAU – Fraser Hill – Klang

we “endemlaiscguides.com” having England guest for birds watching, from Bukit Tinggi – KRAU forest – Fraser – Klang for very limited target lists as guest went Borneo, Cambodia & East India which already cover most of the Malaysia .

with very limited target birds and time, we targeting 40 lifers …

with very good waiting game for first day, the star bird – Mountain Peacock-Pheasant… at Bukit Tinggi, also managed to got few target bamboo Woodpecker, Black Laughingthrush for the first day etc

immediate after lunch , we reached KRAU in very hot, dry late afternoon but we still got few important target e.g. Garnet Pitta, Black Throat Babbler , Banded Kingfishers etc .

but we missed out few lowland target so next day morning we going KRAU again before heading Fraser Hill. we have slow and dry morning but still some target like Long-billed Spiderhunter, Gray-breasted Spiderhunter, Gold-whiskered Barbet , Red-billed Malkoha , Yellow-vented Pigeon, Cook’s Swift, Cook’s Swift, Black-browed Barbet, Hill Blue-Flycatcher etc . too bad we are rush for other targets and didn’t get any chance to photograph them .

another 1.5 days on Fraser Hill, in the morning we have very good view of Blue Nuthatch, Collard Owlet, Black and Black-and-crimson Oriole. Same day, we managed to have very good target and sighting e.g. Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian Hill Partridge) , Mabler Wren-Babbler, Malayan Laughingthrush, grey nightjar etc . I got a good view of Malayan Whistling-Thrush but too bad guest just got a brief view of the endemic . but the bird day , Malayan Hill Partridge give us fantastic view for more than 2 hours … and very lucky I managed to got some pictures of the star bird. and by luck we also have super view of Rufous-bellied Swallow … total 5 of the birds gave us very good view .

immediate after Fraser Hill, we decide to try the Mangrove Pitta. and yes we got it real fast but under the hot weather near mangrove ..

overall we got 118 species and target hit 44 species or lifers for guest

star birds :

Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian)

Yellow-vented Pigeon

Mountain Peacock-Pheasant

Mabler Wren-Babbler

Bamboo Woodpecker

Garnet Pitta

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endemicguides Birds Report – 2016 Feb 29 – March 4 – Fraser Hill – Kuala Selangor

we “endemlaiscguides.com” having German guests for birds watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forest (half day) – Fraser Hill – Kuala Selangor – Kuala Lumpur

We have lovely German Guests from German, they are here from eco related conference and extend few days for Malaysia Birds watching. we mostly walk around for any birds as we dont have any main target .

Day 1 – KRAU forest – we are little slow in the morning missed out few interesting birds e.g. little grebe, lesser whistling duck, lapwing etc … but some how we got few good view of broadbilss (black & red, banded, black & yellow). We also have very good view of Garnet pitta, Rufous-collard Kingfisher & black-throat babbler. We left the site about lunch time and travel to Fraser.

we got Bamboo woodpecker female very good view and eyelevel Yellow Vented pigeon (too bad I dont have camera with me on that time but I still able to get some higher shot of the birds)

Day2-3 Fraser Hill- overall it was windy days and we work very hard for those main targets here e.g. red headed trogon, orange headed trogon, long-tailed broadbill, silver breasted broadbill . any how we able to have both trogons and Silver breasted broadbill at single spot . but we struggle to have a look of long-tailed broadbill but any how we still able to got the bird at last 2-3 hours at Fraser hill before heading to Kuala Selangor.

Day4- Kuala Selangor – it is very good day at Kuala Selangor, we have almost black capped kingfisher , stork billed kingfishers, yellow rumped flycatcher, mangrove blue flycatcher etc .. overall a very good day till we almost missed our check out time. after Kuala Selangor, we dropby Shah Alam and have super fast even less than 10s to spot the Hooded pitta

some pictures I handheld capture when I with the guests

Garnet Pitta

whiskered treeswift
– Mabler Wren-babbler
yellow vented pigeon

Overall we have 159 species recorded

and few main birds record

Mabler Wren-Babbler
Yellow Vented Pigeon
Garnet Pitta
Rufous Collard Kingfisher

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March 4, 2016March 4, 2016

Reverse GND for 150mm Square filter system

finally we have solution for 150mm square filter system for 150mm system which support Canon 14mm F2.8, TSE17mm, Nikon 14-24 F2.8, Tamron 15-30 F2.8, SAMYANG 14mm F2.8, SIGMA 12-24mm etc.

and some test results from same filter manufacturer but it is on 100mm system [84dot5 RGND 100mm] .

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update 2016 March 4

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February 27, 2016March 23, 2021

Marbled Wren-Babbler | liewwk

another star bird for me 2016 … already saw this birds at 3 different sites and able to capture some record shots due to on work …

a shy bird, seldom come open often and it show us open few times .. but it is small grass block !!!!

sorry for some blur and shaking video , shoot handheld for this …

update 2016 Jul 9

update 2016 Feb 27

leaf infront 🙁

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February 27, 2016March 23, 2021

endemicguides Birds Report – 2016 Feb 20 – KRAU

we “endemlaiscguides.com” having Dutch guest for target birds (main target Malaysian Rail-babbler [Eupetes macrocerus] & Malayan Banded Pitta [Pitta guajana irena/ripleyi] watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forestfor ~6 hours birding ..

We have no luck on the Rail-Babbler no single call , due to limited time we have we going bit further trail for banded Pitta and managed to have clear view of the Malayan Banded Pitta plus some other birds e.g.

Red Junglefowl

Purple Heron

Oriental Honey-buzzard

Little Green-Pigeon

Raffles’s Malkoha

Whiskered Treeswift

Scarlet-rumped Trogon

Rufous-collared Kingfisher

Black Hornbill

Sooty Barbet

Gold-whiskered Barbet

Red-throated Barbet

Coppersmith Barbet

Checker-throated Woodpecker

Maroon Woodpecker

Buff-rumped Woodpecker

Banded Pitta

Garnet Pitta

Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Asian Paradise-Flycatcher

House Crow

Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher

Puff-backed Bulbul

Black-headed Bulbul

Stripe-throated Bulbul

Red-eyed Bulbul

Chestnut-rumped Babbler

White-rumped Shama

Little Spiderhunter

in summary

Total 30 species saw
Star birds

Banded Pitta
Garnet Pitta
Little Green pigeon

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endemicguides Birds Report – 2016 Feb 21-25 – KRAU – Bukit Tinggi – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur

we “endemlaiscguides.com” having Belgium guest for target birds watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forest – Bukit Tinggi – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur

for the 5 days 4 nights birds watching , from secondary forest to highland back to botanical Garden … we only concentrate on guest targets birds and managed to record 172 species. and for some good opportunity. from

Day 1 – KRAU : we have some good morning with many low land targets meet except a “mysterious” Black & Yellow Broadbill and Banded Pitta… Star Bird of the day we have Rail-Babbler , Garnet Pitta which stay long snough for us , Little Green-Pigeon , Rufous-collared Kingfisher (real close with good view), Banded Kingfisher (found almost end of the day and long view but little far up with scope) & Rhinoceros Hornbill (with beautiful lighting view)

Day 2 – Bukit Tinggi : target for the Mountain Peacock-Pheasant and both male and female show in the early morning … follow by Malaysian Rail-babbler giving a good running view. than we have a bad day without any more target in almost late morning till 3pm … finally when we say while we dint see Whiskered Treeswift …. it calling when we are driving for some target birds and we make a stop and found this fruiting tree give us another few target included Scaly-breasted Bulbul , Red-throated Sunbird, Spectacled Spiderhunter , Yellow-eared Spiderhunter etc

Day 3 – KRAU-Fraser : we were going back to KRAU for trogon and we had ZERO trogon so far ..and again we also look for other lowland target … in the morning we managed to have Banded Pitta (Malayan) [head view]and than follow by first target trogon – Scarlet-rumped Trogon … and we called it a Woodpecker day as most the target woodpeckers just appear infront of us without big effort Checker-throated Woodpecker , Crimson-winged Woodpecker , Bamboo Woodpecker , Orange-backed Woodpecker .

Day 4 – Fraser Hill : not many target birds here and we only looking for those “no so common” birds here … so we have slow day … but still we have very easy view of 2 Marbled Wren-Babbler which make our day .. but we still failed to have one Partridge calling … and missed few Rusty-naped Pitta … but Siberian Thrush giving good view to us which we really enjoy to see they happy feeding around

Day 5 – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur : not really a productive day again as we only target on the main target due to limited time , we managed to get close to Mountain Scops-Owl and have a moving and some blur picture of Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian) . when we leaving back to Kuala Lumpur it is very windy and tree fall down and block our way back … by waiting of 30 min the road been clear .

as long as we reach Kuala Lumpur – Shah Alam : very quick one we had 2 target meet : Gray-breasted Spiderhunter & Hooded pitta (2 individual saw also)

I managed rush back to car for few occasions and handheld to capture some birds pictures to share…

a never bore cute bird - Black and Yellow Broadbill is one of the Target and it just flew ni while we spending our good time with a fruiting tree - Black-and-yellow Broadbill 黑黄阔嘴鸟 — a never bore cute bird – Black and Yellow Broadbill is one of the Target and it just flew ni while we spending our good time with a fruiting tree – Black-and-yellow Broadbill 黑黄阔嘴鸟

found few fruiting tree with this beautiful Bulbul - Scaly-breasted Bulbul 鳞胸鹎 — found few fruiting tree with this beautiful Bulbul – Scaly-breasted Bulbul 鳞胸鹎

the Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot also join the fruiting tree - Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 短尾鹦鹉 — the Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot also join the fruiting tree – Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 短尾鹦鹉

another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female - Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟 — another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female – Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟

a bird never get bore , few pairs of them around .. Red-bearded Bee-eater 赤须夜蜂虎 — a bird never get bore , few pairs of them around ..
Red-bearded Bee-eater 赤须夜蜂虎

another bird , easy ... just spent 5-10 min found this and managed to go back car and grab camera for this .. in single day found 2 individual birds - Marbled Wren-Babbler 石纹鹪鹛 — another bird , easy … just spent 5-10 min found this and managed to go back car and grab camera for this .. in single day found 2 individual birds – Marbled Wren-Babbler 石纹鹪鹛

a bird we spent a lot of time for ... calling non stop .. managed to see it movement and some blur shot handhled - Gray-breasted/ Malaysia Hill Partridge (Malaysian) 砍氏山鹧􅏾 — a bird we spent a lot of time for … calling non stop .. managed to see it movement and some blur shot handhled – Gray-breasted/ Malaysia Hill Partridge (Malaysian) 砍氏山鹧􅏾

a bird make a lot of noise when we driving back - Rufescent Prinia 暗冕山鹪莺 — a bird make a lot of noise when we driving back – Rufescent Prinia 暗冕山鹪莺

in summary

Total 174 species saw
Star birds

Banded Pitta
Malayan Rail-Babbler
Garnet Pitta
Yellow Vented Pigeon
Bamboo Woodpecker
Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian)
Mountain Peacock-Pheasant
Marbled Wren-Babbler

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February 7, 2016March 23, 2021

2016 Lifer – Yellow-vented green pigeon

Saw this pigeon last year but not able to get a picture of it. Finally have some spare time and spent ~2 days waiting to get a open shot for this bird.

it is bit shy, whenever it is open and I try to move myself it will trying to hide from me … not bad for limited angle and time for this

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February 5, 2016March 23, 2021

Garnet Pitta vs Skint

both the Garnet Pitta and Skint almost got fight … but Garnet still win the territory

Garnet Pitta still one of my favor .. had been stop photograph this bird but was lucky bringing camera this round and got the “moment”

update 2016 Feb 5

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January 29, 2016February 13, 2016

liewwkNature Photohunter : 2016 Jan JiuZhaiGou , CHINA

Back from CHINA and too busy for other work .. and now only able to download the pictures and will share more info here later . but let’s share the beautiful view of this place .

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We spent 4 days in the park and beautiful colorful lake, river, waterfall with ice … the weather is acceptable cold but not really in extreme …

update 2016 Feb 13

a view that make me confuse , not sure what to capture .. the reflection or the clear water … and finally decide not to use any CPL to have both …

update 2016 Jan 29

one of the beautiful lake with dry-death tree, moving source water-still , dark-colorful/bright

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January 14, 2016January 14, 2016

Bird Sightings : A 36hr + 1200km Bird sites visit North Peninsular Malaysia

A quick trip to North Peninsular Malaysia (Sedim-Ulu Paip-Air Hitam Dalam-Bukit Merak-Kuala Gula-Malim Nawar-Alor Gajah) and purpose of this quick trip is to verify site for coming few tours for customers.

We didnt spent time for photography as we want to go as many as possible different locations …

1. Sedim Recreational Forest – Ulu Paip – Air Hitam Dalam

– quite slow in the morning and we only managed to have some birds hearing and have White-crowned Forktail near the river

– the activities seem to be warming up after 9am and we have very good view of few rufous-backed kingfishers which only 10-15 feet from us and Diard’s Trogon full view for ~30feet eye level.

– few pairs of Whiskered Treeswift and Gray-rumped Treeswift flying around

– target bird not found at Ulu Paip and we spend 30min near the river but no sighting of any target birds

– Air Hitam Dalam as usual Mangrove Flycatcher welcome us before we start any birding … Brown Hawk Owl also waiting for us and I managed go captured few pictures of the owl

bird list for half a day tour 18 birds

Black-thighed Falconet

Brown Hawk-Owl

Gray-rumped Treeswift

Whiskered Treeswift

Diard’s Trogon

Rufous-backed Kingfisher

Banded Woodpecker

Common Iora

Green Iora

Ashy Minivet

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Arctic Warbler

Black-capped Babbler

Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler

Mangrove Blue-Flycatcher

Gray Wagtail

Green-billed Malkoha

White-crowned Forktail

2. Bukit Merak-Kuala Gula

after lunch we move toward Bukit Merak and Kuala Gula for a long lost bird but no sighting for that target bird too. so we decide just driving around for visit some old sites and relax.

but we still able to sight birds below

Lesser Whistling-Duck

Oriental Honey-buzzard

Red-wattled Lapwing

Large-tailed Nightjar

Brown Shrike

than we went out for Owl sightings at night and we managed to have 3 main target that night

–> a pairs of Spotted Wood-Owl close to us for some pictures

–> than Buffy Fish owl also stay still for picture session

–> shy Barn owl is slight difficult to get a picture but finally we have one allow us to have picture of it

– next morning after breakfast , we trying to locate both Indian Roller and Hoopoe reported recently but both seem left Kuala Gula .

– whole family of Milky Stork relax at the village of Kuala Gula

–> birds sights from Kuala Gula

Milky Stork

Striated Heron

Black-shouldered Kite

Brahminy Kite

Crested Serpent-Eagle

Gray-headed Lapwing

Buffy Fish-Owl

Spotted Wood-Owl

Barn Owl

Stork-billed Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher

Collared Kingfisher

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

Dollarbird

Pied Triller

Black-naped Oriole

Pied Fantail

Pacific Swallow

Baya Weaver

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

After Kuala Gula, heading Taiping as promise to buy back “Miku” (special plain pau ? but family like it) …. than heading back South

3. Taiping-Malim Nawar-Alor Gajah

under the hot sun , we arrived Malim Nawar and Alor Gajah .. trying to locate Blue-tailed Bee Eater breeding site .. but sad it had been destroy for sand collection 🙁 … and also Oriental Pratincole breeding ground .

lucky a Chestnut-Headed Bee Eater breeding site still active and one nest seem to be ready too . we also have Black Bittern(flying out) and a close Blue-eared Kingfishers for beautiful picture too.

–> bird sights

Red Junglefowl

Crested Serpent-Eagle

Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

Oriental Pied-Hornbill

Black Bittern

Gray Heron

Purple Heron

Little Egret

White-bellied Sea-Eagle

White-breasted Waterhen

Eurasian Moorhen

Black-winged Stilt

Asian Koel

Blue-eared Kingfisher

Stork-billed Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

Lineated Barbet

And before dusk we heading back to Kuala Lumpur … a not back sites checking tour and we have

53 species sights

~10 species in frame

~8 sites visit

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