Sandakan Bird Fair at 1Borneo Mall

6th - 7th December 2008

Another birding event by Borneo Bird Club @ BoBC at Kota Kinabalu city with collaboration of Nikon Malaysia and Sabah Society recently :)

I was one of the speaker for Basic Digiscoping Techniques hehehe :p

Enjoy the pictures and happy birding :o

Cede presenting talk in - Best place for birding in Sabah


Press and VIPS at sale items counter


Models for the bird fair


Datin Naimah officiating the Bird Fair


Nikon Big Guns on displayed for visitors


Hahaha this is me :p

John Kong in Capture NX talk

Andrew Siani in Basic Birdwatching talk

Jollence in Basic Nature and Landscape Photography talk


Alphon, Seng, Ron and Hazel


Jordan and check his blog at http://amazingborneo.blogspot.com/


Gary explaining the camera setup to one of the journalist


Group photo of the speakers

Ck with Andrew


Sponsored by Nikon Sport Optics Malaysia





Bird of Borneo images on displayed

Happy birding and see you again next year !

Sandakan Bird Fair - A Successful Story

29th - 30th November 2008

Some of the shots taken during the Bird Fair recently at Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sepilok, Sandakan.

Thanks for those who came and enjoyed the fair, and will see you all next year !

Booths for the Ministers and guests


Models for the Bird Fair

With Tee from Nikon Malaysia

Choo Beng Teong at his bird painting booth

Chien from Penang giving a talk about bird migration in Malaysia


Tee photographing birds at Sepilok

Participants during the bird walk at Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary

Kenneth with the participants for the bird walk at Sepilok

Participants were looking at Blue-throated Bee-Eater perched high on a death tree

Jun, Nadil and Marie Anne

Tee and Dr. Rahimatsah from WWF

Seng looking after the Nikon Big Guns section

Jeffery trying the Nikon Fieldscope ED82 with D700

Looking through scopes provided by Nikon Malaysia

Irene from Sandakan Foto at Nikon booth

Arrival of Honourable Dato Sri Azalina, Minister of Tourism, Malaysia at Nikon Booth, greeted by Chairman of Sabah Tourism, Tengku Adlin, with Cede and Auther

Mac Book Team

Me and Tee at Nikon Booth

John Bakar

Mark

Chien, the Birdman

Cede testing the Nikon RA scope

Nikon 200 - 400mm, 500mm and 600mm prime lens being displayed and tested by visitors during the bird fair

Borneo Bird Club @ BoBC booth displaying images of birds of Borneo

Bird painting section at BoBC booth

My beloved wife :)

Part of the Bird Fair Team

Lovely staffs at Nikon booth


Girl Guides team that helped during the Bird Fair

The team that made the Sandakan Bird Fair successful !

Photos credit of Gary Albert.

bornean bristlehead

14th november 2008

My 1st close encountered with this legendary bird at rainforest discovery centre with dennis and alphon hahaha :)

Endemic and uncommon, thanks to alphon @ the beast master !


brown barbet (subspecies) and it does looked like miniature of the bornean bristlehead hehehe


buff-necked woodpecker very cooperative that day :p


female lesser green leafbird digiscoped at the car park area


school childrens with their teachers at platform 1


view of the rainforest from platform 2

the coming sandakan bird fair would be held in rainforest discovery centre from the 29th - 30th november 2008. the two days event will showcase the beauty of the centre at the same time creating awareness among the local visitors regarding birds :)

for more info, click at birdfair official website : http://birdfair.sabahtourism.com and see you there !

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