Rainbow Bee-Eater

1st August 2020

Brief stop at Tanjung Aru Beach 3 with the gang for the vagrant Rainbow Bee-Eater sighted by Hie and Bong a few days ago. Got it after scanning around 30 minutes and the cloudy weather didn't help much with the pics. It is considered the 1st record for West Coast after a group of this birds were seen at Silam Coast Conservation Area, Lahad Datu on the East Coast in 2017 during the same Austral migration period.

Bird list:

• Great Egret
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Little Tern
• Germain's Swiftlet
• Asian Palm Swift
• Spotted Dove
• Zebra Dove 
• Green Imperial Pigeon
• Pink-necked Green Pigeon
• Long-tailed Parakeet
• Blue-rumped Parrot
• Blue-naped Parrot
• Collared Kingfisher
• White-breasted Woodswallow
• Common Iora 
• Dollarbird
• Yellow-bellied Prinia
• Asian Glossy Starling
• Dusky Munia
• Black-headed Munia
• Eurasin Tree Sparrow

Images taken with Swarovski Optik and Huawei Mate 10 Pro. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Rainbow Bee-Eater

Blue-rumped Parrot

 

Long-tailed Parakeet

The famous beach for sunset with Tunku Abdul Rahman Park at the background

With Ali etc

Road leading to the Rainbow Bee-Eater spot. You can get other species here too such as the Lesser Coucal and Olive-backed Sunbird

Recording a short video of the Blue-rumped Parrot while waiting for the Bee-Eater

 Blue-rumped Parrot

Happy birding!

Daily Birding In Kota Kinabalu City

5th January 2008

Spent few hours at Tanjung Aru Beach around the Prince Phillip Park today hoping to see the Red-throated Flycatcher and Oriental honey-Buzzard, but no luck with these two birds. Weather was a bit dull in the morning and quite challenging while taking pictures against the grey sky.

Some of my shots today;

View of Sulug and Manukan Island

Shell Traffic Competitions for school childrens held yearly at this place

Neat and clean park suitable for picnic and barbeque during weekends and school holidays

Dollarbird is common around the beach

Collared Kingfisher in action !

Great Egret

Little Egret

Tanjung Aru beach is a nice place for beginners in bird watching as most of the common species could be seen here especially the noisy Blue-naped Parrot and Asian Glossy Starling with combination of waterbirds too example like the Chinese Egret and Whiskered Tern were seen today.

Other birds seen today;

• Pacific Reef Egret
• Intermediate Egret
  
• White-bellied Fish Eagle
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Grey-tailed Tattler
• Whimbrel
  
• Green Imperial Pigeon
• Pink-necked Green Pigeon
• Spotted Dove
• Zebra Dove
• Asian Palm Swift
• Pied Fantail
  
• Crested Myna
• White-breasted wood-Swallow
  
• Olive-backed Sunbird
  
• Black-headed Munia
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Pictures was digiscoped with Nikon Fieldscope ED82, SRB-Griturn Mk II adapter and Fujifilm F31d

Happy birding !