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.

Monday, 7 March 2022

Two or three

 First there was one, then two, and could this be a third?  Or was it the same sub-adult Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo from before?  However this sub-adult still carried a couple of white specks and on achieving full adulthood would display totally metallic bluish-greenish-black plumage.

This one had come way down to the river bank for its caterpillar catch.






Another easy catch.




A challenging bird to photograph to do justice to its beautiful glossy plumage.  And its location hardly allows a frontal view to show off the white barrings on the undertail and vent.





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