There was not one, not two but three Buffy Fish Owls!
This is truly a FIRST for the taman, for an urban park!
It is not only the taman that attracts a diversity of birds but also its immediate surrounding. How can anyone dare to claim that surrounding developments will not affect the taman?!
Still cute, adorable even as my photos couldn't do justice to this stunning bird. It was evening and with unfavourable light, shooting was far from easy.
The bird kept to the inner dense foliage for a long time as a senior birder and I kept our patience waiting for it to come forth and dive for its fish prey. When it finally flew down to a lower spot, it was almost so well hidden behind a banana leaf that it took us a few seconds to locate it, then started our agony of trying to get sharper images in the failing light.
Then, voila, a second bird flew past and had us running up and down the shrubby area trying to locate it. Again the rather dense foliage slope down the stream where the bird had landed prevented our effort to locate this second bird.
And we could only watch again as another one flew past, and the Owls continued to play hide and seek with us.
As darkness finally descended, we reluctantly called it a day!
Ah well, 'Tomorrow is another day!'
Indeed, as I hurried over the next morning, our dear bird was already perching there, and finally some sharper images, although it still kept to the inner foliage, but it was all wide-eyed! Stunning indeed!
Nevertheless, I certainly cannot discard the images shot the evening before, and well, a beauty is a beauty, you cannot hide it!
These images were exquisite for these showed the Owl snoozing, dozing off and on, with a cute yawn thrown in
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| A cute yawning shot, unfortunately blurry but definitely adorable |
It then flew down behind the banana leaf and our suspense and expectation that it would dive for fish came to naught.
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