Little Tern

31st July 2019

There were at least 15 Little Terns flying around the beach of Mimpian Jadi Resort at Tuaran and saw one sitting on its nest with 2 eggs. Other species seen including Lesser Sand Plover, Paddyfield Pipit, Pacific Swallow and Collared Kingfisher. Normally by August or September, these Tern will moved to other places together with its immature.

Images taken with Swarovski Optik STX95 and Nikon V1. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The BTX module, such a joy to used on the field for a longer observation. It uses 2 eyepieces similar with binocular. For more info, please visit Swarovski Optik, Austria website.

Happy birding!

Little Tern

12th August 2011

While driving to one of the beach in my local patch yesterday, saw a pair of Tern from a distance flying high and low at a used to be a watermelon farm next to the mangrove but now covered with soil roughly about an acre and there were cows with Cattle Egret too.

Upon careful inspections, saw 2 juvenile Little Tern on the ground guarded by one of the parent while the other one was busy distracting few Cattle Egret nearby by swooping on top back and forth. The next 1 hour spent taking pictures in flight of the Tern !

Little Tern is a common winter visitor but arrived in my place only in small number from September - April. It could be seen at Likas Mudflat and Lok Kawi beach together with the other waterbirds and considered the smallest in the region.

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

Happy birding ! 

Another Common Ringed Plover

28th September 2009

After watching this bird for few years at the same spot, only today had a chance to digiscoped this uncommon visitor to Borneo. Other species seen at Lok Kawi Beach:

• Little Egret
• Eastern Cattle Egret
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Grey Plover
• Little Ringed Plover
• Malaysian Plover
• Greater Sand Plover
• Lesser Sand Plover
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Wood Sandpiper
• Terek Sandpiper
• Rufous-necked Stint
• Whiskered Tern - With juvenile
• Little Tern - Mixture of non and post breeding birds

Digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope ED82, SRB-Griturn adapter and Fujifilm F31D

Popular beach among the locals for collecting shells and bivalves.

Lonely Common Ringed Plover Greater Sand Plover Pacific Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Little Tern

With the recent typhoon from Philippines that brought strong winds to Sabah, I'm hoping for another surprise during this Northern Hemisphere winter migration hehehe :) This post is dedicated in a loving memory to my uncle, Eric Joe Robles. May his soul RIP. Amin ...