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, 1 May 2023

Avian stragglers, or what

 It's the end of April and I was surprised to encounter still these two avian migrants at a lower area of the bukit, far from their usual or territorial foraging areas, raising an interesting question:

- it has been more than 2 weeks since the Dark-sided Flycatcher was no longer sighted at its usual perch so I had concluded that it had returned home, and now to encounter it again (being pretty sure that it was the same one), so was this one a straggler?  Or must every breeding migrant flycatcher return home, or could it be like a juvy oriental honey buzzard that is known to miss its passage home in the current season only to return home the next season?




- the same applies to this Arctic Warbler that's still around too.



I guess it's a record of sort as it's a first for me to sight still these avian migrants at this time of the season foraging in a mixed flock at an unexpected area of the the bukit.





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