Takur Akar

Suatu pagi di Teluk Intan, aku lepak2 depan rumah, dengar bunyi thunk! thunk! thunk!, perasaan seekor burung bertenggek di kabel letrik, dari jauh nampak macam anak burung perling daripada jalur2 di dada.

Aku ambik kamera, baru nampak warna -warna kuning dan merah di muka dan dada. chantek sekali.

Ia adalah

Takur Akar
Coopersmith Barbet
Megalaima haemacephala

Ia adalah satu-satunya burung takur yang boleh didapati di kawasan lapang, burung takur yang lain biasanya berada di hutan rimba.

Birds of the paddyfield

In the way back to my hometown (Teluk Intan), will went through Sg Besar, Tg Karang which have paddyfields. I knew there are a lot of birds there. Instead of taking the main road, I went through the rural road that went through the paddyfield.

The egrets are here. cattle,little,intermediate egrets. The problem is to get close enough..I wish i'm using electric car here..hehe. All pics are taken from car..


An Intermediate egret with a cattle egret in the background.

Also the chinese pond heron, seen here with a cattle egret.


Cattle egret @ Bangau Kerbau(left) Chinese pond heron Pucung Cina( (right)

There a a lot of White-throated kingfishers on the telephone wires. Never imagine, stopping suddenly for crows, well this are not so common in the city. A lifer for me


Gagak Paruh Besar
Large-billed Crow
Corvus macrorhynchos

also another lifer, aftermuch cropping..nice pose but blurrrr :(


Lelayang Dada Putih
White-breasted Woodswallow
Artamus leucorhynchus

A journey is a journey by itself, if a 2 hours trip turned to a six hour trip, and I enjoy it..why not?

My office mate

Once, there is a sunbird building its nest in the office lot in front of my office. Stangely it picked the unused electrical wire as the basis to make its nest.



with an Olive-backed Sunbird nest so close by, pay a visit from time to time to have a shot. Here a point and shoot becomes quite usefull.

The female sunbird have quite a fondness of the side mirrors of cars park in front of its nest. I dont know why..



Sometime it will check her beauty in the mirror.



now the nest is gone, luckily the offspring manages to grow up and fledge before the owner of the shoplot dicides to tidy up the place.

hmm.. all my pic is the female. where is the father?

Dedap merah dengan burung

Kalau nampak burung kelicap menghisap madu dari bunga Dedap Merah ni memang tak heran lah..

an olive-backed sunbird female sucking nectar from erythrina glauca flower

eh burung tiung jawa pun suka juga

a javan myna also have a liking for this flower

burung dendang selayang pun nyebuk nak madu.

the black-naped oriole also join the fun

kalau saya ada taman mesti saya dah tanam pokok ni.

I believe I can fly!

I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away

I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
Oh I believe I can fly

a nice song by R. Kelly which makes a nice prelude to my pictorial..

One day, found this little fella on the high branches being fed by its mother, or father..


the parent does seem smaller isnt it.. but notice the juvenile bird tail feather doesnt fully developed yet.

Weeks past and one day found a pair of parents chirping away..with food in their bills. Just imagine talking with your mouth full! But they can do that..


One offering berry and another a worm.


gulp...One swallowed the berry..

The young one still dont wanna to try to fly down an get some meal..


I guess it havent get the gut to fly down yet. The first time is always scary i guess.


hmm.. better get a nicer food, maybe will entice the young one to overcome its fear..


One parent fly away... one still offering the worm ,

hoping its young will fly down to get its meal..

flying the first time

first step to adulthood...

Two Friends

Burung Merbah Kapur(Kanan) penduduk tetap Malaysia, Burung Tirjup Coklat (Kiri), migran dari Siberia, berada untuk musim sejuk dari September ke April.

Di suatu petang, Merbah bertemu dengan kawannya Tirjup.

"Bagaimana dengan perjalanan kamu dari Siberia?", Merbah bertanya.

"Biasalah, perjalanan ke mari memang penuh dengan rintangan, angin ribut, kilat sambar menyambar tambahan lagi asap beracun semakin banyak merata-rata. sesak nafas aku", jawap Tirjup.

"Habis, apa kenapa kau masih bersusah payah balik ke mari?" Tanya Merbah kembali.

"Aku rindu mata kamu yang comel itu!", kata Tirjup sambil ketawa.

"Boleh percaya ker? Kalau begitu kamu janganlah balik ke sini lagi.. janganlah kamu bersusah payah kerana aku.." luah Merbah.

Tirjup terdiam, dalam fikirannya, "apa salahnya aku bersusah payah, sekiranya itu yang membuat aku gembira, lagipun Merbah memang suka aku ke mari. Kenapakah dia berkata begitu...?"

walaupun Merbah berkata begitu, setiap tahun Tirjup akan berulang alik dari Siberia ke Malaysia. Apa salahnya bersusah payah kan!

a fictional story I write for the above pic, a composite of 2 picture shot with the same background. The uniform shape of the roof shingles gave a nice way to accurately sized the birds. If fact, the Brown Shrike and the Yellow-vented Bulbul is the same sized at 20-22cm.
The Brown shrike should be a lanius cristatus cristatus - female

Dendang Selayang dengan anaknya.

Dengar sahutan burung dendang selayang ni
uuwooow - uuwooow - uuwooow!
mana dia ye.. pandang atas pucuk pokok2 tak nampak pun.

pandang pokok sekeliling nampak lak sarang, tenung betul-betul baru nampak bende bergerak.

uih! ade anak dia, mulut je buka, suara tak keluar..

lama gak aku tunggu, ade gak org lalu lalang. aku buat tak tau je..

beberapa ekor kerengge dtg gigit perut aku.. abih bau kerengge tangan ni..cabut kerengge tu.. sakit gak, cam kena sunat. hehehe!

tiba nampak ibunya hinggap kat pokok sebelah.. bila sunyi je, baru dia terbang ke pokok yg ada sarang dia. tapi kat dahan lain.



bila line clear dia melompat ke dari dahan ke dahan sampai ke sarang dia. nampak cam bawak belalang je warna hijau.




haa.. sekor anak dia dah makan, sekor lagi masih tunggu.. uuwooow - uuuwooow,
oh! pasangan dia dah sampai..

hmm harap2 besarlah sampai dewasa. cantik burung dendang selayang (kunyit besar) ni, besar merpati.

Black-Naped Oriole
Dendang Selayang / Kunyit Besar
Oriolus Chinensis