Grey-headed Lapwing (vanellus cinereus)

22nd November 2011

My best friend Roy saw it at Penampang paddy field last Sunday morning causing another excitement among the gang and they rushed to the site within 1 hour but I couldn't make it that day. Met with Ron and Roy yesterday at the same site and saw this pretty looking vagrant for North Borneo hunting for small shells at the paddy field. My last sighting was in Tuaran, 30th November 2007 together with Karim heheh. Refer to this post http://horukuru.blogspot.com/search/label/Grey-headed%20Lapwing

Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 via Nikon FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter on Nikon D300s

 

I will do a summary of latest rare and vagrant species that has shown up at Penampang on my next posting. Happy birding !

new species again !

30th november 2007

weather has been bad recently where sabah was hit with two typhoons and didnt have chances to take pictures. then 2 nights ago met with ck, dennis and jollence talking about new adobe photoshop CS3.

then i asked them is there another possibilities that new bird might be blown off from its route to sabah, and they replied; "yes". hahaha then went birding the next day planned looking for the common kingfisher but didnt have the chanced to digiscope.

and today after sending my mum to the office, i drove again to my old patch, tuaran beach resort or known as sabandar bay resort where i used to work as a resident bird guide together with jollence few years back.

saw the common kingfisher, but too dark and again the peregrine falcon in flight then perched on the telecommunication tower same like yesterday. managed to get good pics of peacefull dove, white-breasted wood-swallow and juvenile yellow bittern.

on my way back home, stopped by at one of the marsh area and saw small flocks of pacific golden plover and suddenly one unidentified bird flew in and landed just in front of me and guess what ?

hahahahahahahahahaha my lifer, grey-headed lapwing (vanellus cinereus) !

juvenile yellow bittern

taken with nikon fieldscope ED82, srb-griturn adapter and fujifilm f31d

happy digiscoping !