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, 23 March 2021

Playtime for a young woodpecker

 While Mama Orange-backed Woodpecker was busy preening, guess what the young one was up to?





Annoying, taunting, intimidating the Banded Woodpecker in his home?!  Or simply being playful.  All the young one did was flew to the rotten trunk, started to drill behind the nest, flew off, could be heard calling close by, then returned to drill again.





However, at the last disturbance, the Banded Woodpecker did emerge from its hole and fly off, and that was it.  There was no more drilling and the young Orange-backed Woodpecker too disappeared.



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