Birding With Andrew & Anthousa

27th October - 2nd November 2011

Had a great time birding and watching wildlife for a week with Andrew and Anthousa, both hailed from Canada, they used this opportunity on their way back to their hometown to enjoy some of the best spots in Asia for holidays after spending 2 and a half years studying in Australia.

A group of Bornean Pygmy Elephant, Storm's Stork seen twice in flight, Bornean Bristlehead at Sepilok and Fruithunter were some of the highlight seen recently and a total of 140 birds recorded on this trip despite the rain occurred in the morning and afternoon.

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

What a luck !

A pair seen on my final morning along Power Station road

 

My second sightings of baby Orang Utan in the wild ...

My favorite boatman, Aliu

Andrew & Anthousa getting ready for morning cruise

Misty morning along Kinabatangan river

 

Menanggul river in the mist ...

One of my favorite bird !

Happy birding !

TT session and besra outing

24th and 25th may 2008

met with tilan and nabghani (both are photomalaysia.com member) at tanjung aru beach and had a good conversation regarding birding in sabah and sarawak. at the same time tested 3 spotting scopes (nikon ED82 and leica APO 77) to compared with the new kowa 884mm belongs to sinooorita and from other observers eyes, we agreed that kowa is the best with wide FOV of its zoom eyepiece, sharp and brighter than the other two scopes.

tilan and sinooorita testing the scopes while nabghani enjoying his ABC (grated of ice cubes and fruits with syrup, brown sugar and evaporated milks !)

then today went to crocker range with sinooorita and chai and his girlfriend to check the nest of besra which chai found few days ago at gunung alab sub-station for crocker range national park and to our surprised, we managed to see and recorded 3 chicks on the nest and at few occasions, the mum came and fed the chicks without bothering us talking their pictures and video recording.

it is a new sub-station judging from the newly built facilities such as hut, small parking space, and building that houses an office for the rangers on duty and accommodation for visitors. temperature is around 20 degree celcius and elevation at 1880m asl.

snapped from my cellphone because my compact camera battery's died out :p

it rained after lunch and can u see the cooler box and a can of tiger beer next to it ? wahaha

short recording from my cellphone :)

bird seen and heard along the access road and at gunung emas restaurant:

• whitehead's broadbill (heard)
• bare-headed laughingthrush
• sunda bush warbler
• ashy drongo
• bornean treepie
• oriental cuckoo (heard)
• little cuckoo dove
• blyth's hawk-eagle
• chestnut-crested yuhina
• red-breasted partridge (heard)
• crimson-headed partridge (heard)
• temminck's sunbird
• mountain blackeye
• ochraceous bulbul
• ashy bulbul (bornean race)
• short-tailed magpie
• sunda laughingthrush (heard)
• chestnut-hooded laughingthrush
• black-sided flowerpecker (heard)
  

i'll be visiting this place again next week to check the progress of the chicks and updating my bird list of this station to see if this place is worth for a day visit combining with rafflesia centre, which is only about 15 minutes drive from the station with my upcoming birding groups.

thanks to sinoorita, chai and cindy for the company hehehe :o

pictures and video digiscoped and videoscoped with nikon fieldscope ED82, srb-griturn Mk II adapter and sony ericsson k660i