Pigeon hide-and-seek

You can flee but you can't hide.

It was almost hilarious when the pair of Pink-necked Green Pigeons thought they got the better of me, and peeped from behind the branch.

But this time patience was not their virtue as the male decided it's simply delusional (if birds could reason)!?

So no need to be evasive after all.

The other beauty

 

Thanks for the presence!

A shrike a-near

Just after I lamented the long-distance relationship, an encounter days later with another Tiger Shrike obliged with its proximity.

 

As I was passing by

Thanks for 'fanning out'!

 

Warbler of the 'cold'

 And so the second of the most common warblers has arrived, the Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis).

Refresher (extract mybis):
Order - Passeriformes
Family - Phylloscopidae
Genius - Phylloscopus
Specific epithet - borealis (Blasius, 1858)
Common name: Arctic Warbler, Artic Warbler, Cekup Arctik, Cekup Artik, Cekup Daun Artik
Status: Least Concern

06/2024

Typical belly images when it kept to higher canopy but easy to identify when its lower mandible was clearly visible.

And then allow it to take one for a rollercoaster of spot-me-if-you-can as it flitted about foraging.

It's a bird that's more inclined to hop than fly during foraging.

White vision

There were two, but only this one was bold enough to remain albeit partially hidden, but what it afforded was a real treat as it took off sleekly over and away.

 

An uncommon sight now in the taman, it was like seeing the Little Egrets again for the first time as the pair flew surreptitiously along and across the river until one decided to stand open, almost, and tall.

 

A-warbling then and gone

 Here's to the first glimpse of the Eastern-crowned Warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus) that came in a bird wave.  Caught up in the rush of a bird wave it was more than a challenge to even spot, nevertheless it was spotted!. For now, suffice to know that it has arrived.

When it forages alone as it would when it spends the rest of its time here before it leaves end of the migratory season, spotting and photographing it would usually be easier.

Refresher (extract mybis):
Order - Passeriformes
Family - Phylloscopidea
Genius - Phylloscopus
Specific epithet - coronatus, Temminck & Schlegel, 1847)
Common name: Eastern Crowned Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Eastern-crowned Warbler, Eastern Crowned-warbler, Cekup Dahan, Cekup Daun Tongkeng Kuning)
Status: Least Concern

05/2024