Main sorok-sorok.

Satu hari seekor burung Kelicap Mayang Kelapa betina (Brown-throated Sunbird) sedang mencari makanan di bunga pokok yang saya tidak ketahui namanya, lalu datang lah seekor merbah kapur datang menyapa.

mungkin sang kelicap tidak berapa suka kehadiran merbah, terus menyorok.



Merbah berpusing keliling pokok mencari kelicap

Berjumpa juga ..



tapi sesuatu telah mengalih perhatian merbah, ia memandang ke arah lain

Cepat - cepat kelicap terbang lari



Terus hilang sampai terpinga-pinga merbah dibuatnya..



Teringat saya akan cerita kawan saya, tentang burung besar yang hinggap di depannya dan hilang sekelip mata hingga menimbulkan perasaan seram padanya..

Pada saya, memang sifat burung, sekali terlepas pandang, burung akan terbang menghilangkan diri dan sekalipun ia berdiam diri, kita takkan perasan ia didepan mata.

Scratching-indirect kind

I have read in BESG about bird scratching of the indirect method, so I double check my photos and I found not one but 2!



an Oriental Magpie Robin



a Yellow-vented Bulbul

notice that the feet is over the wings to scratch the head

Yellow-vented Bulbul Nest

While the Yellow-vented Bulbul is very commonly found bird, the nest isnt easy to find. Personally I only found it 2 times in 1 year of my birding.



a parent in the nest.

altough the bulbul is a furgivore(fruiteater), it feed its chick with protin rich food like bugs and worms.

Want to see ghost?

There are a malay saying if you want to see ghost, or you want to confirm a person is really a human or a ghost, you have to bend down and see thru your legs.

here are a tip which I have translated to english.

Find a house which at the back of the house have running water (for example running water from a water faucet). Right at 12 midnight, go to the back at the house, take off all you clothes. Stark naked, stand with the running water between your legs, bow and see backward and upside down thru your legs.

If God permits, you will see all kinds of ghost, demons and genie, albeit upside-down.

Disclaimer: This is only an info, any circumstances that happen after using this info is fully the user responsibility.

No, I dared not do it, but this Yellow-vented bulbul does.. :D

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

Swallowing Yellow Vented Bulbul

Looks like the 'daun palas' seed, after removing the skin.

Open wide!



Halfway!



Gulp!


Yellow-vented Bulbul
Merbah Kapur(Malay)
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