Birding With Ron & Carol

17th - 23rd July 2011

Spent a week with Ron & Carol searching for the best birds and wildlife at Mt. Kinabalu, Kinabatangan River and Sepilok Forest Reserve before they continued birding at Singapore and Thailand. With total over 170 birds seen and some of them were captured with my scopes, a pair of Whitehead's Trogon was one of the main highlight seen on the final morning after searching for several days at the mountain !

At Kinabatangan River and Sepilok, few endangered Storm's Stork with Lesser Adjutant, few pairs of Wreathed Hornbill, Grey-headed Fish Eagle and only the sound of Bornean Ground Cuckoo and the fast moving Blue-headed Pitta at Gomantong Cave. Missed the White-crowned, Helmeted Hornbill and Bornean Bristlehead this time.

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

Cruising at Kinabatangan River

Good birding !

Hidden Secret Part 2 Hahaha :p

25th January 2008

Early start with Joe, Zaiton, Karim and Ben birding at Sugud Forest Reserve and saw many birds such as Streaked Bulbul, Yellow-eared Spiderhunter and Velvet-fronted Nuthatch. Andrew came a bit later after Karim managed to photographed his lifer, Narcsissus Flycatcher hahaha :)

Some of the shots today :)

Resting ...


Then shoot !

Birds seen and heard today:

• Crested Serpent Eagle
  
• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
• Grey-rumped Treeswift
• Diard's Trogon (heard)
• Gold-whiskered Barbet
• Red-throated Barbet (heard)
• Yellow-crowned Barbet (heard)
• Blue-eared Barbet (heard)
• Black and Yellow Broadbill
• Black-winged Flycatcher Shrike
• Fiery Minivet
• Lesser Green Leafbird
• Streaked Bulbul
• Red-eyed Bulbul
• Spectacled Bulbul
• Buff-vented Bulbul
• Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
• White-bellied Epornis
• White-crowned Shama
• Artic Warbler
• Ashy Tailorbird
• Dark-sided Flycatcher
• Narcsissus Flycatcher
• Yellow-eared Spiderhunter
• Little Spiderhunter
• Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
• Oriental White Eye

Main star for the trip, Banded Kingfisher ! Thanks to Ben for spotting this instead of the Bee-Eater hahaha :p






Runner up is this Red-bearded Bee-Eater :)

Brown Barbet (subspecies)


Flying Lizard sp.


Civet's sp. pooh


Lantern Bug

Good birding today and I'm planning to go back for Dark-sided and Narcsissus Flycatcher pictures !

Happy digiscoping !

wader survey at sepilok laut

12th - 13th november 2008

some of the shots taken during the waders survey recently at sepilok laut :)

the team :

• cede prudente
• gary albert
• john bakar
• dennis icon
• hamit
• kabili (working with sepilok forest reserve)
• ronnie and
  
• myself hehehe :p

visitor building at sepilok laut

cruising through the mangrove

relaxing at the camp ground, sepilok


pro nikon equipments !

me and kabili

john, hamit, dennis and gary


cede prudente

long-tailed macaque

common kingfisher

banded kingfisher

ruby-cheeked sunbird

near full moon taken from sepilok laut visitor building

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