White-throated King Fisher harassing Brown Shrike

Happy shrike

The brown shrike (Lanius cristatus) is a migrating bird. I can easily see this during autumn ( October and November). It will hunt for food, insects etc., and will return to the same perch, usually the top dominant branch.

Suddenly, the big white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis perpulchra) appeared  with a loud noise from below, startling the shrike.

staring at something below

White-throated Kingfisher move upward with kit-kit-kit sound

displacing the Brown shrike

took over the top bamboo branch

flew away to other place

just to harassed

 

Common Iora Singing

The common iora (Aegithina tiphia horizoptera) -male, foraging on Rambutan tree.

singing -  mimicking a song of Magpie Robin

fly jump

 

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