The heart leapt when I recognised the sihouette from afar.
It has been increasingly difficult to spot any migrant raptors such as Oriental Honey-Buzzards in the taman now with towering buildings mushrooming around the taman.
The transit visit of a Honey-Buzzard used to be a certainty sans these monstrosities, and as a bonus then, seeing a raptor on the ground was even not uncommon.
Another day, another fly over.
I see, I feel, and I feel, guess I have to keep you for another day.
What do I do with a pose like yours?
The Crested Honey-Buzzard gave away its presence only because of the din caused by birds fearing for their young in the vicinity.
As silently as it stayed as silently it flew away.
What's in a feather?
Symbolism as some said, as I chanced upon this one on an early morning walk up the bukit, just as the new Chinese Year of the Green Wood Snake is just around the corner.
Symbol of renewal, new growth, for this bird owner has presumably shed naturally over the night for the feather to still appear pristine in the morning.
Not a small one by any means, it measures about 28cm which suggests that it could belong to a large bird, perhaps a raptor.
A couple of days later it has appeared again.
However, sometimes a visitor has no place in another’s space, as this Crested Honey-buzzard was pursued and eventually chased off by a Changeable Hawk-eagle.
The lure of food is indeed irresistible to both man and beast. And on this occasion it compelled these two big ones to risk unusually close proximity to human beings and settlements for such.
The Oriental Honey-buzzard (Pernis ptilorhyncus orientalis)(Helang-Lebah Asia) does transit at the taman each year, but to see a couple together at my front yard suggests that perhaps food of its kind was rathe scarce in this part that both would venture here.
