Ulat Beluncas - Lime Butterfly Caterpillar

Found these two Caterpillars feasting on my young Kaffir Lime tree leaves.
Dua ekor Ulat Beluncas makan daun Limau Purut

Caterpillar of Lime butterfly (Papilio demoleus Malayanus)

shoot with iPhone 6s

early fifth-instar caterpillar

Garden Birds - Oriental Pied Hornbill and Pink-necked Green Pigeon

Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) - pair perched on  an electric wire.
Pic with iPhone 6s, edited with Snapspeed

A flock of Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans) resting on Pokok Petai Belalang (Leucaena leucocephala) . I count 31 birds
Pic with Sony RX100 M2, edited with Photoshop

Silver-eared Mesia Feeding Moth Series

While cleaning the dry-box and searching for an empty CF cards, I found this pictures.
This are an old photographs taken in Jan 2013 at Fraser's Hill
Silver-eared Mesia  (Leiothrix argentauris tahanensis) caught a yellow Moth

Catch a moth with the beak

than smash it into a tree for a kill

transfer to the right feet and meal broken into pieces

slowly

swallowing

all gone

posing to photographer and ready to fly for next catch

Grasshopper in my Garden

Belalang Kunyit  (Valanga nigricornis) datang ke taman rumah saya

This yellow Grasshopper visited my garden recently . Hooped on the supporting plastic pole near the Nerium Oleander. It did not touch that poison leaf.
Catch it and put it in the plastic bag, then release it 4km from my garden to ensure it won't be back. 

Saya tangakap, masukan dalam plastik dan lepaskan 4km dari rumah saya. Pasti tak dapat terbang kembali ke rumah  ;)

Final picture before it hopped into the bush. Please don't come back!

Pokok Bunga Mexican Petunia ini menjadi mangsa belalang
This Mexican Petunia leaves are favorite of grasshopper

daun digigit,    bitten leaf

Nothing disturbed this Bougainvilleas

Daun Buga Kertas ini tidak pulak diusik nya.

ini anak belalng di tembok pagar.
Grasshopper  should eat this grass, instead of that Petunia leaf

pictures with iPhone 6s

Burung Pekaka di Mahkamah Sesyen dan Majestret Raub

This blog has been dormant for more than three months. I was so busy with work, and no time for birding / photography.
Here is a couple -  King Fishers (Halcyon smyrnensis) perch on an electric cable at the Magistrate and Session Court, Raub.
Photograph this morning with Handphone - iPhone 6s with ProCamera software in HDR mode, post-process with PhotoFiltre.

New Zealand Birds

Here are some of the common garden birds that I catch with handphone during my recent visit to New Zealand North Island.

 Black-billed gull, Mallard, Brown teal, at Lake Taupo

Mallard, and Brown teal  at Waiteti stream

Grey duck

on the opposite side river of the bank I saw a black bird, to far for my handphone camera

 I search and found the name. download this from Wikipedia  - Eurasian blackbird, pic by Juan Emilio

Photograph  of the Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans) below credit to Oscar Thomas, young birder from Auckland.

I encountered a Bird of Prey (possibly a Swamp Harrier) eating a road kill while driving a plantation road. The bird flew away when approached, and I didn't have any chance to take a photo.
The bird of prey from the website Young Birders New Zealand,  matching the bird that I saw that day..
I got a permission to use the bird photo here, in my not for profit blog from Mr. George Hobson, Coordinator of the Young Birders New Zealand. TQ.

at Auckland park -Southern black-backed gull,  Immature (below)

Coromandel Shorebird Coast - Waterbirds - Variable Oyster-catcher, Pacific gull, Brown teal (duck),  at the Coromandel Peninsular, Tararu  beach coastal road

Picture above taken from: Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre

Pukeo - Australasian swamp-hen

 Fan-tail and Kiwi birds at Wai-O-Tapu souvenir shop

I bough this metal plaque from a Chinese souvenir shop at the Queen Street, Auckland.

Kiwi, Takahe, Kokako, Kea, Morepork, Fantail

New Zealand is an expensive place to visit. With Malaysia Ringgit falls in recent months, the exchange rate last week at 1NZD = 3.1 MYR. Their GST is 15%. The petrol prices  vary from place to place.