Be like bird

 Be like bird, neither showy nor flashy, simply motivated, practical, adaptable. 

The other beauty

Ixora Coccinea

Brown Tree skink (Dasia grisea)

 

Encounter, again

When it's given, one accepts gracefully.

The Changeable Hawk-Eagle was simply calling for attention.

Watching the bird performing a U-turn.

It transited for a purpose.

And when waiting was in vain ....

 

The "wagging' one

 Always shy, always fleeing, and I've lost count of the number of U-turns the Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) has made when it sensed that I was still around, and trying to get closer.

Refresher (extract mybis):
Order - Passeriformes
Family - Motacillidae
Genus - Motacilla
Specific epithet - cinerea Tunstall, 1771
Common name: Gray Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Kedidi Kepala Kelabu, Kedidi-air Kelabu, Pipit Batu
Status: Least Concern

12/2024

A challenge to track it across the water but it did not look like it's so for the Wagtail as it could still figure me out, and stayed away.

Smallest of kingfishers

 Just as I was reminded by Facebook that five years ago in Oct 2019, the Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher, migrant, (Ceyx erithaca) was sighted in TRK, who but one would be perching down the slope as I walked past, and promptly caused it to flee.  Fluke!? 

But this time it was in Bukit Kiara.

However, it's not unusual to find this kingfisher in the hill forest as it's considered a forest bird, may be found near water source but more often heard than seen as it speeds through the vegetation, only to reveal its presence by its sharp and thin calls as it flies.  And indeed that was its tease as I tried unsuccessfully to spot it thereafter but could only stood exasperated listening to its occasional piercing calls.

Although this bird is deemed a common winter visitor, it's a passage migrant as it would normally not stay in the same place the duration of the migratory season.

Refresher (extract mybis):
Order - Coraciiformes
Family - Alcedinidae
Genus - Ceyx
Specific epithet - erithaca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common name: Black-backed Dwarf Kingfisher, Black-backed Kingfisher, Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher, Oriental Dwarf-Kingfisher, Pekaka Api, Pekaka Kerdil, Pekaka Rimba, Pekaka Sepah
Status: Near Threatened (source: eBird)

10/2024

Can't have enough of this one with only seconds of sighting!

The sighting on the first day in Oct 2019 that was to start an onslaught of birders to TRK, all keen to photograph this tiny gem of a kingfisher that only stayed for less than a week then in the taman.

My white 'amur'

 It's a rare treat to come across the Amur Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone incei), white morph, in the bukit.

And as usual this one came in a bird wave, to the upper canopy, pausing only to scan, and offer great photo op if it caught a prey,  and then with its characteristic 'now you see it now you don't' act, gone with the flock.

As I was passing by

Thanks! No squabble, no resonance!

 

As I was passing by

Thanks for the display!