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 4 January 2022

Honey-buzzard, and more

 Just when I thought I've seen the last of a honey-buzzard, a couple of days later, my attention was drawn by cries of these two birds unfortunately pretty high up this time who seemed to be pursuing one another.  

I think I could safely identify them as a dark morph male and a pale morph female of the Oriental Honey-buzzard.




And a few days later, this one, a pale morph male flew in to the taman and decided to spend a good few hours here.




Unpertubed by presence of birders zooming on it from below, it proceeded to perch there for a rather lengthy period.


It also appeared to be extremely relaxed going by its stance of resting on only one foot.



The characteristics of an adult male - distinct dark trailing edge to the wings, thick bands on the tail ....


... grey head, dark iris and dark bill.




And as I was heading home a couple of hours later, who but this one to fly in again, creating a din among the park birds.
The threatening sky did not prevent it from relaxing again although it did look like it was expecting another the way it was scanning around.


















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