kota belud paddy field

12th october 2008

took few hours birding at my favorite patch this afternoon hoping to see and picture the common kestrel which i saw last year with karim and also looking for suitable place to conduct field trip for the coming wader workshop by david bakewell next week from the 17-19th october with few participants from west malaysia, sarawak, brunei and from sabah itself :)

nothing special just the common winter visitor and resident species. light was good so took few pictures without cable release and frankly speaking, my hand shakes a lot !

3 different section of paddy fields

wood sandpiper

white-breasted wood-swallow

little egret

yellow wagtail

scaly-breasted munia

birds seen today;

• purple heron
• cattle egret
• striated grassbird
• long-toed stint
• little ringed plover
• black-headed munia
• white-winged tern
• yellow-vented bulbul
• spotted dove
• marsh sandpiper
• common greenshank
• black-winged stilt

digiscoped with nikon fieldscope ED82, srb-griturn Mk II adapter and fujifilm f31d

happy birding !