Pied Fantail at a Bougainvillea Tree - Murai Gila di Pokok Bunga Kertas

Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica) at  Bougainvillea spp.

Burung dan Dedalu - a Birds and a Mistletoe Plant

Three bird species feeding on a nectar of Malayan mistletoe (Dendrophthoe pentandra) at my backyard

(1) Brown-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes malaccensis) at a Mistletoe (male above and female below)

Two more species below:-

Happy Holiday

Caught this female Oriental  Magpie Robin jumping and flying from a wooden perch. The magenta background is my neighbor's house.
Happy Holidays!

Yellow-vented Bulbul eating Buah Lengkuas

~Yellow-vented Bulbul eating Buah Lengkuas (Alpinia galanga)~

Barbet Eating Banana at ISO 2500

The dark, overcast sky during rainy monsoon season. I have to push the ISO to 2500 to have a decent picture of this Gold-whiskered Barbet eating banana in my backyard.

Shutter speed 1/30, no flash

2013 Migrant Birds at My Backyard

Finally, migrant birds perched in my backyard. Not a lifer, but Brown Shrike and Little Egret

Little Egret is a resident migrant bird in Malaysia, but I don't see it here (Raub)  in other months except in the winter. Its habitat is the mangroves and freshwater wetlands

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) - perched on a coconut pinnate and a banana leaf. Easily identified with dark-colored bills, black legs, and yellow feet.

Other than the two birds above, all the birds pictured below are common backyards.
Please look below what are they:  :)

Verditer

meaning:-
>A pigment made by grinding a basic copper carbonate; bice: azurite yields blue verditer, malachite yields green verditer.
>Bluish-green pigment
>Either of two basic carbonates of copper, used as a blue or green pigment

  Verditer Flycatcher - female (above) and compare it with all male (below)

Birding during Maal Hijrah 1435H Holiday

It rained last night, the road is all wet and muddy, so no road-bike training this morning. Went to my usual spot for 2 hours of birding at Padang Golf Raub. No new species, all the normal residences.

a flock of Heron in flight

Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa) and  House Crow (Corvus splendens)

House Crow (Corvus splendens) - landing

Murai Gila - Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica)

Yellow-vented Bulbul eating Buah Lengkuas (Alpinia galanga)

Special big white bird below: - (ha-ha!)

Con Foley Malaysian Hill Partridge Stamp

Another plagiarism from Pos Malaysia and Tourism Malaysia
Con Foley may take legal action, more story at The MalayMail Onlime

Photo comparing the original and plagiarists images - taken from Tou Jing Yi  FaceBook

Shameful Act by Post Malaysia and Tourism Malaysia

"My photo was stolen and used in a Malaysian stamp?" -  Romy Ocon
Read the full story at DPREVIEW -  Here
The same story at MSN News
Also coverage by StarOnline and Yahoo News

"Serious ignorance, as the White-fronted Falconet looks very different from a Long-tailed Shrike" - Romy Ocon.
My picture of Falconet (Black-thighed) - below

 Black-thighed Falconet (Microhierax fringillarius) - very different from Long-tailed Shrike

new stamps - from Post Malaysi

This images - taken from Pos Malaysia FB are already taken out, and that Philately Unit is no longer accessible

Common Backyard Birds during Sultan Pahang Birthday Holiday

Pycnonotus goaivier feeding Micrantha sp. fruits

few more common birds below:-

Birds and Giant Fern

Giant/King Fern (Angiopteris evecta) at Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia

more about Giant Fern HERE

Grey-chinned Minivet (Pericrocotus solaris) - male

Grey-chinned Minivet (Pericrocotus solaris) -male

Forgoten pictures at Jelai Resort Fraser's Hill

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Little Pied Flycatcher -male

Minivet Female

Minivet male

Mountain Leaf Warbler

Mugimaki Flycatcher

Verditer Flycatcher

Pipit Rumah Terbang Jatuh - Fledgling Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Found this juvenile Eurasian Tree Sparrow, trapped on the balcony.
I picked it, took a few pics and released it. She flew away happily

Insects at Coat Buttons flowers

Playing around with kit lenses (EF-S 18-55mm) at my backyard

Bees - (Apis sp. )

The Striped Albatros butterfly - female

 The Striped Albatros -male

Common Four Ring butterfly (Ypthima huebneri)

Junonia orithya wallacei, female.

Bee and black ant

Birds from Japan

 Mejiro,  Japanese White-eye -perched on Bunga Sakura -Cherry blossoms

This is a collection of bird pictures that was captured during my recent visit to Kobe Japan
Not mine, actually by my new friend - Abd Jamal Abd Hadi, a Freelance Japanese interpreter/translator
He photographed this with Olympus-SP72oUZ, equipped with a 26mm wide-angle to 676mm super-telephoto. Amazing compact camera.
All this bird was photographed in Osaka, Japan. Working as a  translator, he usually accompanied Malaysian factory staff on training in Japan. In his free time, he walked outside and found a river flowing through the factory compound. On the river bank, there are a lot of Sakura trees in full blossoms, which attract a lot of birds, especially this beautiful yellow-white-eye.

Siberian Thrush -female

Japanese Thrush

Turnstone

Blue Rock Thrush - male

Hawfinch - pink beak - non-breeding

Daurian Redstart-male

Little Egret

 Bird Sculpture

Birds Silhouette

Spot-billed Duck

Gulls

Pigeon taken at Kobe - sewage cover

Colourful tree

 ?White Wagtail

White-cheeked Starling

all pics by: Abd Jamal Abd Hadi.