Singer Of The Rainforest

12th February 2009

Birding with Andy again at Kinabalu National Park early in the morning then drove to Poring Sub-station after breakfast. Missed the Everett's Thrush but got an excellent view of Mountain Scops Owl, new lifer for me hahaha.

At Poring, Red-throated Barbet finally perched in the open and Andy managed to see its throat giving out loud call trough the scope and his dream bird was the Black and Yellow Broadbill and saw it before we left Poring back to the resort.

What a good day !

Some of the shots :p

Digiscoped from Nikon Fieldscope ED82, SRB-Griturn Mk II adapter and Fujifilm F31D

Bornean subspecies of Crested Jay

White-crowned Shama - Best singer of the rainforest :)

Have a nice day :o

eye level with black hornbill

13th - 17th may 2008

pay a visit to my father who had a health problem and were admitted at duchess of kent hospital, sandakan few days ago. visiting hours started from 1230 - 1400 hrs and 1600 - 1930 hrs daily, so took few trips in the morning to the rainforest discovery centre, part of the sepilok-kabili forest reserve.

view from platform no. 3

has 3 viewing towers with the other 2 is connected with walkway together with excellent trails and during my visit, managed to record around 76 birds and 1 lifer; bornean bristlehead ! wahaha searched for 3 years and with the aid of my scope, got a splendid view of 3 bristleheads and took short footage of it and im so happy coz it was the day my father was discharged from the hospital too :)

total species recorded (including visit on last march) : 86 birds so far (own list)

black hornbill


violet cuckoo


endemic of borneo, white-crowned shama

summary from this trip :

• worth a visit for 2 days birding even though the whole trails could be completed within a day
• good introduction of the lowland rainforest
• fantastic place for bird photography i.e digiscoping due to the sufficient light during the day
  

pictures was digiscoped with nikon fieldscope ED82, srb-griturn adapter and fujifilm f31d

and videos of the bornean bristlehead and violet cuckoo at my youtube