Wak-wak mengigal

Mengigal (me- + igal; pasif: ku/kau/diigal, terigal)

menegakkan dan membentangkan bulu ekor seakan-akan untuk memperagakan diri (seperti merak, kalkun): merak mengigal. (from Wikikamus)

white-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus  phoenicurus)

I have seen this solitary adult water-hen foraging and preening in a dry open area near the roadside.

Usually, it finds food in a monsoon drain and a river bank.

WB

 

Short visit to Putrajaya

Putrajaya is the administrative capital city of Malaysia. 

Recently, I got the chance to go to the city.

I was last here seven years ago when my son was a student at Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah in Presint 1.

Spent the night at Zennith Putrajaya. The image below was captured from the seventeenth story.

The Putra Mosque with a single 116 m minaret, and the Perdana Putra (Prime Minister's Office)  - that green dome.

Striated heron (Butorides striata)

Walking to the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque, (aka masjid besi).

Iron Mosque in the background, foreground is Marigold flowers 

Water Taxi

Cruise Boat and the Traditional Boat (Perahu Dondang Sayang), Tasik Putrajaya

House crow (Corvus splendens insolens) and female pink-necked green pigeon (Treron vernans)
on the red-orange ripe fruits of  palm tree (Saribus rotundifolia)

Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) fly high up above the constructed building.

Photographer

The Putra Mosque at night

Sunset and the Seri Wawasan bridge look like a sailing ship

Juvenile Jungle fowl

One morning, I noticed this big bird perching on a coconut tree petiole.

Domesticated fowl rarely fly high up the tree. This must be a jungle species that wanders from the nearby palm oil plantation. 

The image above was edited (auto-colour) with Photoshop Version: 2017.1.0

Red Jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)

                                                                    

Original colour from the camera - jumping

Jungle fowl can only fly short distances, about 3-5 meters.

 

Male Baya Weaver feeding on grass seeds

Male Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus infortunatus)

eating the savanna grass (Axonopus compressus) seeds

yellow cap

Male Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus infortunatus)