Mob Bird Story - part II

Today I want to tell you about this mob bird mobbing activities. They will active engage any would be intruders that came near. From my observation this is done only at their nesting/roosting site. Even if you saw them foraging by the road side, it wont mob you.

What they do is, they fly near, above your head like inspecting you. You can hear the whooping sound of the wings flapping.."Whoop! Whoop! Whoop"

If any large bird came near their nest, it will send few birds to mob it..


"Ark! Ark! Ark! the alarm sounded when a purple heron fly near.


Interceptor fly off to escort intruder(purple heron) out of hot area!


House Crow: This is restricted area, please leave immediately!
Purple Heron: Will do! just pass by to fishing ground. I don't eat Crow Chicks!

Precautionary measure, the mob bird escort the heron around


to west


to east, note the golden sunshine shining from west

any big or small bird, will be chased off! even the raptor Brahminy Kite


maybe the raptor do eat chicks, the restricted area for raptor is even bigger, so high up



next part: The guarded secret chick! or read previous part.

Heronry in Yong Peng

During my trip down south, when I passed by Yong Peng,
saw a dataran. just wanna have a look


some view of the "dataran".

but what interest me more when spending some time there, is the squaking of the birds on the mangroves at the far end of the parking lot. There is a heronry, a place where herons breeds and raise their young. Not more than 50 meters from the parking lot.


here is some uncropped picture from my 300mm+1.4x lens. and taken from the car parked in the parking lot. Can see the purple herons and night herons rearing their youngs there.
Hmm been thinking, if majlis daerah yong peng decides to expand the parking lot, sure the herons lost their heronry which from some sources in the net says was there for more than 20 years.

A good chance for birders to observe these birds.
So when passed by Yong Peng, buy a drink and stop to see the herons.

Should have the gps coordinates, but my netbook went kaput along with the original jpegs of the above pics.

Direction from NSE Yong Peng Toll:
From toll turn left, pass by expensive RnR favored by bus driver on left. Go straight toward Yong Peng town. Just before town area, watchout for 'Dataran' on right. It is after crossing the river.