Fraser's Hill - Silver-eared Mesia

Last Sunday was my 3rd photography trip to Fraser's Hill to 'captured' this beauty.
Finally I got a decent image of Fraser's Hill 'emblem' -Silver-eared Mesia

Silver-eared Mesia (Leiothrix argentauris)

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Mango Flower and Fly

Olive-backed Sunbird - female

Olive-backed Sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis)

Brown-throated Sunbird at Mango Tree

Brown-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes malaccensis) - male & female (above)

Long-Tailed Parakeet , SkyWatch Friday

Burung Bayan Nuri

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Common Myna chased away by Female Long-tailed Parakeet

Long-tailed Parakeet (Psittacula longicauda), male (left above) and female (right).

male Parakeet with bright coloured beak

My Butterfly - Rama-rama

"Black & White Helen" (Papilio nephelus sunatus)

Grey Pansy (Junonia atlites) - thank to Amila Salgado for ID

Striped Albatross (Appias libythea olferna) - male

Common grass-yellow butterfly (Eurema hecabe contubernalis)

Rama-rama song by Malaysian Rock Queen - Ella

Durian Flowers

Durian flowers fall on the road, look like flower's carpet.

(Durio zibethinus)

A Hen on Durian tree

Gallus gallus domesticus

Red-bearded Bee-eater with Cicada

Red-bearded Bee-eater (Nyctyornis amictus)

Teratai, Lotus Flowers

It started to rain when I found my only lifer (Purple Heron) during Maulidul Rasul Holiday. I have to take shelter at 'pondok' (hut) at Taman Rekreasi Raub (Recreation Garden). This is what I got while waiting for rain to stop. All with 400mm telephoto.

Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.)

Portraiture of Orange-breasted Trogon

Orange-breasted Trogon (Harpactes oreskios)

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White-rumped Shama

White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus)

Man made and nature - SkyWatch Friday

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Silver-breasted Broadbill - Couple

Silver-breasted Broadbill (Serilophus lunatus)

female (left) and male (right)

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Buff-rumped Woodpecker

another LIFER for me.
I decided to venture alone further up the hill at Bukit Tinggi, after shooting the Mugimaki with the bazookas group. I met a young man there - Zaidi from Kelantan. He has been a gardener there for 8 years. Very friendly guy who show me this bird.
This beautiful woodpecker is pecking a hole at a termite nest, very high on dead tree.

Buff-rumped Woodpecker (Meiglyptes tristis) -male

the same bird from Yen Blog

"wheat-sower" from Japan - Mugimaki Flycatcher - That's my World!

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My Lifer - Sunday shooting at Bukit Tinggi, Pahang. I joined the bird photographers from Penang and Singapore. Meet all the familiar online names (TSChein, Alagan, Adrian Lim, et all). They are all veteran and experience bird photographers with big lenses aka bazookas (meaning 500, 600 & 800mm).
It was really fun shooting this little beauty. We stand waiting in the middle of the road, with those big lenses and tripod for the bird to perch at the lower clean branches, just outside the road's steel barrier. All the cameras already set and prefocus . While waiting we have a chat and look at the bird reference book. Suddenly somebody whispering "there, there Mugimaki!!". Rap-tap-tap-tap, the sound of cameras with 10fps rattling in unison with flash blazing. Surprisingly the bird just stands still posing for us, for a few seconds, so that everybody has enough full framed portrait to bring home, (and to show off at the birds forum). ;-)


Few of bird photographers - pictures with Nokia N70.
Left: Sree and Chien (and Alagan big 800mm). Right: Adrian (in green shirt), Low (Dominator) and Reno. Can you see Adrian's Porche sport rim there! ;)

Mugimaki Flycatcher (Ficedula mugimaki)

All my images are just for my record, croped (not full frame) and not sharp enough, not worth posting at birds forum. ;-)