Taman Rimba Kiara is a little green gem located in a corner of the TTDI residential area. The above flowering tree, the firmiana malayana or mata lembu, flashes in testimony to man's care-less-ness - it's one of only two trees in the park that had flowered, since then the tree had been chopped down.

Thursday 28 July 2022

A sense of avian beauty

Birds are extraordinarily stunning when we zoom in to their plumage and colours, but we forget that sometimes we do miss the forest for the trees, or the greens for the plumes??!


In the greens, two young male Baya Weavers (Ploceus philipinus) aforaging ....




The older one






The lush wild grasses now almost completely grazed off by these hungry birds.






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