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

White-bellied Sea Eagle harass by crow at Raub Lake

I was taking a photo of an egret at Taman Tasik Raub yesterday afternoon when I heard a loud commotion. 

A White-bellied Sea Eagle (Icthyophaga leucogaster) was being harassed by a Large-billed Crow.

This is my first time seeing a Sea Eagle in Raub. It's common habitat is in coastal areas, and inland (like Raub) waterbodies.

Sub-adult White-bellied Sea Eagle, still patches of brown at the neck.

Jungle crows are not common in this small town, unlike big cities like Kuala Lumpur where crows are a pest. Here, crows are usually seen in big trees and high telecommunication towers.

 The crow chased the eagle into the tree.

White-bellied Sea Eagle trying to defend attacked by Crow 

mid-air fight

 Apparently, this type of fight is common between eagles and crows. Maybe to protect their nest and territories.

Sea Eagle didn't want to waste time and energy; he just flew away.

A Large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos macrorhynchos) claims victory.

Birding during Eid-Adha Holiday

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Common Birds of Srinagar Kashmir

Birding is not my  main activity while traveling in Kashmir. Just a casual observation, and with only wide angle lenses . (17-40mm f4 and 24-70mm f4 Canon lenses).

Here are the common birds around Srinagar town and garden.

Gagak- Jungle Crow foraging in a flowering apple tree.

Tiung - Common Myna

My first lifers was found at the Dal Lake in front if our houseboat - Hooded Crow

Second lifers in the Srinagar Botanical  Garden - Eurasian Jackdaw

Lifer No. 3:  Black Kite

Lifers No 4: Itik -  Little Grebe

 Lifers No 5: Common Moorhen

House Sparrow

Lifer No. 6: Tern

I arrived at the Hazratbal Mosque a few minutes before maghrib /sunset, so all the noisy pigeons are already roosted on  the Chinar trees outside the mosque. .