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.

Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Oh Tweedale at last

I was simply thrilled when I practically walked into the Oriental Honey Buzzard Tweedale morph as I had been seeking this one ever since it was sighted in the taman weeks ago.  Fortunately it stayed on long enough for more than a couple of shots before it took to the sky, and again fortunately I managed to spot it in time as it circled above.
It is said that this local Tweedale morph mimics the Blyth's Hawk Eagle with its dark plumage.
With this sighting I'm most happy to have sighted all the sub-species of the OBH that have visited the taman to date - the migratory dark morph, the migratory pale morph, the local one and now the Tweedale.








I was glad to have taken this (badly shot) belly image as it enabled me to identify firmly the bird in flight.







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