Osprey ...

9th - 10th November 2012

Tempasuk paddy field at Kota Belud is considered one of the best place in Sabah to get some of the vagrant from North Asia such as Pacific Black Duck, Asiatic Dowitcher, Black-tailed Godwit, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and Mallard. When CK Leong found a pair of Coot recently with his clients, I was hoping to get a better pictures, but unfortunately, the distance was far even with my Digiscoping rig.

The Coot was seen mixing together with lots of Common Moorhen and Black-backed Swamphen. Looking through the scope for a while plus the shimmer heat caused dizziness then I decided to call it a day. Last Saturday with the gang, we didn't get to see the Coot but Osprey was entertaining enough for everyone in a warm morning with excellent blue sky !

Taken with Nikon D300s + 300mm 2.8 VR II + TC1.4x + Blackberry Bold 9900

Mt. Kinabalu

With the gang

A pair of Lesser Adjutant

There were hundreds of Wandering Whistling Duck at the paddy field together with Garganey

My best shot of this Osprey ! I need eye contact next time I hope ...

Happy birding !

black-collared starling at last !!!

31st october 2008

after waited for few days at penampang paddy field where denis saw it for the first time with thomas, late this afternoon with karim, we saw 10 black-collared starling exactly at the same plot and few of them seen perched at nearby banana trunks and smaller trees.

probably new species for sabah after buff-banded rail which was seen last year in october at tempasuk rice field by karim :)

and according to clive mann in brunei, they found a single bird at Wasan, Brunei, 5 Oct 1991. Elkin, J., Mann, C.F. & Ozog, A.C. 1993. Forktail 8: 155-156. further info please contact him at clivefmann@gmail.com and oriental bird club

the birdlife database indicates this bird as a vagrant for borneo :)

hehehe october seems to be a good month for getting new species for sabah :p

thanks to denis !

black-collared starling

and some of the pictures i took in the morning at likas lagoon this week :o

cattle egret


juvenile common moorhen


oriental reed-warbler


juvenile yellow bittern


purple heron

changeable hawk-eagle (pale morph)


osprey

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

happy birding everyone :p