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

Morning Hike - Padang Golf Raub (Semantan Hulu, Pahang )

 Morning Hike Semantan Hulu, Pahang ☁️

Cloudy, 23°C, Feels like 24°C, Humidity 95%, Wind NE 1m/s

9:24 AM on Sunday, December 27, 2020

Lama tak memburung sejak PKP Covid 19. Kamera dan telephoto tersimpan sejak sekian lama.

Pada ahad 27/12/2020, saya pergi ke tempat biasa - Padang Golf Raub.

Tiada burung hijrah , luar biasa atau lifer.

Burung Tempua, Female Baya Weavers, tak  jumpa pulak spesis jantan atau sarang.

Puas mengejar kumpulan tempua ni, dua gambar di atas je yang sharp.

A Sepasang  'Terkukur'  Spotted Dove (Stigmatopelia chinensis)

Wak-wak, White-breasted Waterhen, sangat pemalu lari ke dalam parit

Murai Gila - Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica),  di pokok senuduk. Tak dapat pulak  gambar masa ekor kembang.

Sepasang Burung Punai -Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans), jauh bertengek didahan pokok leban.

Sekawan Pipit Pinang -Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata), makan rumput di tepi kolam Padang Golf Raub.

Seekor monyet berehat atas pokok mati

Pink-necked Green Pigeon, Burung Punai Gading

Dari mana punai melayang,
Dari Sawah turun ke padi,
Dari mana datangnya sayang,
Dari mata turun ke hati.

Cuti sekolah bermula, maka bermulalah  aktiviti memotong hujung punai aka Khatan
Ya Allah permudahkan urusan ku dan lindungi pesakit ku dari musibah dan komplikasi, Amin!

Raub Golf Course Birding - Revisited

Hampir 5 tahun saya tak memburung di Padang Golf Raub.
Kali terakhir adalah pada November 2013 - HERE
Tak banyak perubahan dari segi spesis yang di jumpai, kecuali Burung Belatuk Belakang Kuning ini adalah pertama kali di sini. ( saya pernah  jumpa di Bukit Tinggi)

Buff-rumped Woodpecker (Meiglyptes tristis)

Belatuk Belakang Kuning

Burung Tempua - Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus) - female - above pic,

Terkukur - Spotted Dove (Stigmatopelia chinensis) -below

Punai Gading Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans) -male above

Burung But-But Besar (Centropus sinensis), singing below

Sambar Asia; Asian Brown Flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) -migrant above.

Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus), below

  Bangau Kecil - Little Egret (Egretta garzetta), flying above

Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier), foraging on bamboo tree below

Another Migrant bird -  Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus)

A pair of Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis), below

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

New Year Birds - Pink-necked Green Pigeon - Punai Gading

Burung Punai Gading. Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)

How many male, and how many female?

Anak burung Merpati - Pigeon chick