Si Penghulu dan Gembala

Sampai di satu lereng bukit, aku berhenti sebentar. Satu kaki Tripod ku yang di atas pada kedudukan paling redah, dua lagi di kedudukan paling tinggi...betul-betul menghala ke kawasan agak rata di atas.. Suasana senyap sunyi...

Tetiba ada bermacam jeritan...Krohh....bunyi ranting2 patah di atas pokok...
aku membatukan diri,dari ekor mata nampak kelibat haiwan berbulu pantas melompat2 dengan laju di atas pokok...macam di kejar sesuatu..

Setelah suasana kembali aman, tiba-tiba ada bunyi sesuatu memijak daun2....
nampak kepaknya yang biru..

Hanya dapat beberapa kali menekan butan "shutter", ia pun pergi...

Gembala Pelanduk
Hooded Pitta
Pitta sordida

Berpuas hati dengan "lifer" saya, saya pun turun ke kawasan tepi kolam...
di situ sekumpulan beruk sedang berehat2. Saya pun "join" sekali smbil menunggu kiranya ada aksi menarik..

Rupa-rupanya kekecohan tadi ialah akibat ketua kumpulan beruk itu sedang mengajar jantan-jantan yang lain untuk menunjukkan siapa yang berkuasa.. nampak jelas luka yang dialami oleh penghulu beruk..


Berok
Pig-tailed Macaque
Macaca nemestrina

Tapi ia masih boleh melaksanakan tanggungjawapnya...;)

Otter in the klang river..

On 15 Jan 2010, I again spotted the Smooth Otter family in my patch



They makes a peculiar wave when they swim which is highly visible.



I can see they swim in a group, sometimes taking a dip underwater.

Here is a pic of them back in 2008

More lifers at Bukit Cerakah

On 27 Sept 2009, I went again to Buit Cerakah(Taman Botani Negara) for birding, since its the nearest place to my home.

Today I decide to take the trail at the arboretum. The birds are quiet and it starts to rain.. I quickly move to the hut in the middle of the trail.. just as i reached the hut, it starts to rain heavily.. very furnate indeed because i forget to bring my raincoat.

After the rain stop, I went to the trail around a hill, which loopes back to the hut, again... no birds seen.. sigh...
.
so i took a trail leading to the taman buah-buahan (fruit garden) junction heard a bird call..

seems so far away but actually much closer.. but the bird is quite small..


Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
Sambar Belakang Kuning

haha, i id it as a warbler, a red alert bird too..furtunately i post it at photomalaysia and got the corrected id

ok... at least got one bird, reach the juction and took different trail back which i saw this spiderhunter..


Little Spiderhunter
Kelicap Jantung Kecil

This is full frame, but too blur.. pity pity!


At one muddy patch on the trail, I saw what I think is a cat track printed on the mud.


I check this
site and I think it is a cat track. It is quite a big track about 10cm across.

upon reaching the park entrance, near the seismic data collection, saw the Black Magpies(Gagak Kambing)... one decides to put a hat..


how cute...

as I was chasing the magpies, the place seems to fill with bird calls, apparently a bird wave is following the magpies...

among them


Asian-paradise Flycatcher
Murai Ekor Gading


Artic Warbler
Cekup Daun Artik


Large Woodshrike
Rembah Kayu Besar


Black Drongo
Cecawi Hitam

The black drongo was calling loudly, I recorded it using my mobile phone VGA camera. Dont know how it turned out..

maybe a video capable dslr camera would come in handy..

Hmmmm..

Pulau Carey

The first time I went to Pulau Carey is during a photo outing with some Photomalaysia forummers. That time i didnt bring my long lens.. saw a Collared Kingfisher at the beach that day but did not manage to shoot it..

This time around, I went again hoping to see the kingfisher again.

On the way to the secluded beach,saw a Crested Serpent-Eagle(Helang Kuik) perched on a dead tree beside the road..



it looked big, almost fooling me to think its a bigger eagle like the greater spotted eagle. I stayed an shoot for like 30 minutes. Seems like no action from the eagle, maybe just enjoying the breeze. So I drive to the beach..

It seems that the tide was high.. so no walking on the beach as before, so just parked my car and thinking what to do next..

then...

at a pond/drain behind the bund I saw a pair of White-breasted Waterhen(Ruak-Ruak) with its chick, seems like 2 chick following each parent.


Waiting for the chick to follow.


Bigger view of the black chick..


Another adult. Which one is male or female, I dont know...

After they have finished their business at the pond, they went away.

Not long, some squirrel call grabbed my attention. Always fooled me thinking it a bird call.. Well its just the common Plaintain Squirrel (Tupai Pinang)



It seems gravity didnt stop it.

Then my battery drained out.. so have to go back..

On the way back, the Crested Serpent-Eagle is still there, same perch.. so is I counted at least 3 Black-shouldered Kite on the telephone cables by the roadside..

sigh... out of juice!

for the record, this trip is on 3rd October 2009.