Hulu perdik the first trip.

After lots of reading and recomendation from a fellow birder, I went to search for this place. The first time I went didnt find the place, instead I went to sg congkak. This time, Dec 11, after studying the guides by numerous websites manages to find it. It actually before Sg Congkak.

The Direction.
Find the Kg Kuala Perdik before Sg Congkak, if from KL, find a signboard of Nur Lembah Pangsun with a small sign "Jln Hulu Perdik" at the bottom. went straight until there are no road. Will gone thru tar to gravel road.

There I found a lifer. The only species of bird I managed to capture there..
The brightly coloured male

Sepah Puteri Dada Oren (Malay Name)
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
Dicaeum trigonostigma


Female, sub adult. Notice the beak still have some of the juvenile orangeness..will turn blacker.



Male and female together.

after the birds finished having their snack, I went in up the river to find the waterfall or other birds,but halfway I turn back coz the sky is turning black.. and I have made 3 river crossing, and I know the river will swell up if it rained heavily and I am alone in the forest.

so went back and take a dip near the first river crossing..
and guess what a natural fish spa..rm60/hour at fish spa at kl.. feet only..

here, both hands and feet..

what a nice place!

Hunting the black baza.

I spotted the black baza when I was birding at my usual birding ground. It was afternoon(my lunch break) at the last week of November 2008. It was black like a crow, but the flight and the way it swoop down to catch prey wasnt crow like. Looks like a raptor to me.. So I went to this patch more frequently than others.

My first shot was this


not so clear but enough to confirm its a black baza. There a a pair of them, not like a flock that was described. maybe some circumstances makes it made the stopover at my patch..

so the subsequent week i try to track them until on December 5 finally got a better picture.


Helang Baza
Black Baza
Aviceda leuphotes

it makes worth of my time.. to see this bird in my patch where the usual bird are yellow-vented bulbuls, crows and mynas. area is overgrown abandoned buiding project in middle of residential and industrial area, subang jaya. few minutes from where i work.

Burung Rimba

Kalau ikut namanya, memang ia duduk dalam hutan ler.. kalau nak tengok kena lah masuk dalam hutan.. kalau kat bandar kat zoo je kot.. Ini burung2 rimba kat bukit fraser itu hari..(22/6/2008-Fraser Hill, International bird race)

Ini burung perasan cun , bila nak ambil gambar dia makin dekat dia datang.. bila kita kelam kabut nak fokus .. dia pi jauh sambil gelak2 heee heee heee..


Rimba Mata Putih
Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush
Garallux Mitratus

Yang ini cantik.. kalerfull.. macam mainan je..

Rimba Telinga Putih
Silver-eared Mesia
leiothrix argentauris

Yang ini pun jinak juga... dok mencari makan dekat food court tu..


Rimba Ekor Panjang
Long-tailed Sibia
heterophasia picaoides

Wak wak bukan wak jiji

patutla dia cepat sangat cabut lari. takut sangat dia dengan manusia. tak lama dulu selalu orang menjerat burung wak wak ni. sekarang tak buleh dah.. kat filipina ada baca, tinggal lebih kurang 200 pasang je diorang jumpa. kat sini tak tahu la...tapi skang dah masuk dalam Akta Hidupan Liar 76/72 dan jika sabit kesalahan, mereka boleh dikenakan denda tidak lebih RM5,000 atau penjara tiga tahun atau kedua-duanya sekali.




nampak tak gambar tu, dah lama dah tahun 2006, kesian burung2 tu.. makan ayam dah ler. makan wak wak ni buat apa, banyak tulang aje, selit celah gigi.., kata blog tu 31 ekor dpt tangkap.. diorang makan semua ke.. atau simpan peti ais, busuk buang. manusia memang tamak.

saya suka cerita ni pasal menangkap burung wak-wak ni, cuba lah baca... :D
http://kenshin-reverseblade.blogspot.com/2008/08/makhluk-di-tengah-sawah.html


tak kesian ke, saya suka lihat matanya.. comel sahaja!

Ruak-Ruak
White-breasted Waterhen
Amaurornis phoenicurus

Addendum 14/8/09

I am sad that someone plagarise the above pics, cropped out my signature and posted on his blog. The photographer spend so much time and effort to take the pics, put the signature and share with the world only to have his signature cropped out and posted anonymously without the photographer knowing.

sigh...

here is the culprit
http://abdulwahabarbain.blogspot.com/2009/02/dada-putih-berbadan-hitam.html

Pekak ke?

Bunyinya kasar ... Hark Hark Hark, kalah penyanyi rock. Malah lebih serak dari bunyi burung gagak.. Selalunya berbunyi bila ia terbang.

Banyak kali juga terserempak dengan burung ini. Pekaka Dada putih (White-throated Kingfisher), Burung Raja Udang (Common Kingfisher) juga sejenis burung Pekaka tapi dadanya oren. Sekali je jumpa, tapi tak dapat ambil gambar. Kat Malaysia ada 13 spesis burung pekaka. Saya baru dapat satu.(as in June 26,2008)

Ini first time shoot this bird. Jauh dan tak berapa clear..



Dah berapa kali tangkap gambar burung ni,rasanya ini lah yang paling clear sekali.. Nampak paruh dia yang besar dan merah. Well, merah tanda bahaya.. so Watchout! lah wahai ikan - ikan sekalian.


Pekaka Dada Putih @ Pekaka Belukar
White-throated Kingfisher
Halcyon smymensis

Biar berputih mata...

Dalam hobi birding nih, kena mempunyai banyak kesabaran. kadang-kadang pergi jauh-jauh, berjalan berpeluh-peluh, penat, dahaga... tak dapat satu burung pun... Kadang-kadang baru jalan sikit dah jumpa..


Mata Putih
Oriental White Eye
zosterops palpebrosa

contohnya burung kat atas ni.. baru nak melangkah masuk ke Taman Alam Kuala Selangor tu ia dah duduk mencari makan di pokok besar di paya tu.. kecil aje, kalau mata tak tajam tak nampak!. senyap atau bising tak berapa main peranan.. cuma mata kena liar mencari..

kalau ada syukur, kalau dapat tangkap gambar cantik lagi bersyukur, kalau tak dapat apa-apa..tak apa lah.. kan...

tapi kalau nak dapat, kenalah berusaha meningkatkan kebarangkalian untuk jumpa..

samalah macam hidup ini... kenalah berusaha..
kan kan kan!

Bird with a golden voice

Burung ni dipanggil Mute Swan, satu spesies dengan angsa yang terkenal bising tetapi ia jarang mengeluarkan bunyi. bukan nya ia bisu tetapi kalau hanya mengeluarkan bunyi hiss jikalau terasa terancam dan bunyi grunt jika gembira. mungkin kerana ia adalah antara spesies burung terbang yang terbesar di dunia.

So size does matters

Bila kita perhatikan manusia, perasan tak bila dalam masyarakat tu, orang yang berbadan besar lebih senyap dari yang berbadan kecil. kalau ada perbincangan / perbalahan, yang kecik lebih dulu meninggikan suara.


Mute Swan
Cygnus olor


Maybe that when the big ones talk people listen, when the small people talk people tend to ignore. This doesnt just apply to physical sizes only. can apply to power and money too.

So listen to the little people so they doesnt have to shout!

MNS Open Day 2008

I heard MNS was having an open day at FRIM, Kepong on 22nd November 2008, and there is a birdwatching slot. Well, guess it is a good time to learn more about birding and meeting fellow birder.

Arrived just about 9, park and get my equipment.. register my name at the birdwatching group.

No! I not yet a MNS member. I will register later, unfortunately rm70 is out of my budget for November. Poor man!

After meeting Yati and some members of the group(I'm soo bad with names!) we went into a trail which seems to be frequently used by cyclist on mountain bikes.

Not long into the trail, Somebody spotted/heard a banded kingfisher. He imitated the bird's call! and the kingfisher answered back. Wow! that was amazing.. got a small photo of the banded kingfisher pair. Trying the digiscoping setup..wow! that was big comparing to my 300mm x1.4 lens.

After half an hour or soo, walking some of the participants want to turn back. me and a couple of birder walking further infront kept walking.


then spotted this bird (a group 3-4 actually).

Beberek Leher Biru @ Blue-throated Bee-eater

after spending sometime at the spot, the birder couple turn back and asked "did you see the beeeater and the raffles malkoha?" "Beeeater yes, Raffles no". They went back but yet I stayed. I always birding alone so that day havent yet satisfied!

Still at the spot, then came a bird wave..a frenzy time to shot pictures..
so the group are..

first the lifers :) (if ID are wrong, please correct me)

Burung Matahari @ Scarlet Minivet

Spotted also the yellowish immature scarlet minivet.


Murai Ekor Gading Jepun @ Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher


Sewah Dada Oren @ Rusty-breasted Cuckoo

and improved shot of the

Cenuk Birah @ Chestnut-breasted Malkoha

I also a black drongo, but picture too lousy..

After spending sometime.. went to the waterfalls at FRIM. on the way out, notice a big bird on the road side. seem like a raptor catch something. Stop in the middle of the road, get my camera and shoot. A Crested Serpent Eagle with a lizard prey.. Handheld shot in a idling car makes a very blurry pictures..so not shown here.. but it was a nice experience.

What a nice day, sure I will join them (MNS) again.. 14th December, Lake Garden?

Kedidi Hutan

Di Bukit Cerakah jumpa lah burung ni tengah mencari2 makanan di celah2 daun kering yang gugur



Kedidi Hutan / Pipit Rimba
Forest Wagtail
Dendronanthus indicus

Burung migrant ini dikatakan datang dari Siberia dan Korea

Lonely So Lonely

banyak kali juga aku dok tengok dia kat Taman Tasik Shah Alam. tapi selalunya dia solo je, tak pernah nampak ada teman. memang le ada yang lain tapi tak sekufu ngan dia.. macamana nak berpasangan.

Satu hari tu dia datang dekat ngan kita.. dapat le tengok dari dekat.. bukan senang tu.. biasanya dia dok jauh2 je.
Seronok tengok dia main air.. hehe!



Angsa Hitam
Black Swan
Cygnus atratus
Origin: Australia

Black swan theory
a black swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that all swans were white.