life is like a leaf

waiting to fall...begitulah kehidupan kita, sampai masa akan gugur ke tanah

After the rain

Jambu leaves. (Syzygium spp)

Gold-whiskered Barbet (Megalaima chrysopogon)

Common Iora (Aegithina tiphia)

Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goaivier)

Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis)

Rambutan fruits (Nephelium lappaceum).

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Orange-bellied Leafbird

Found this leaf-bird foraging at the brush-bottle tree at Silver Park Apartment.

Orange-bellied Leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii) - male (above), female (below).

Have a look for more bird pictures at the Bird Photography Weekly @ Birdfreak.

Female Lesser Green Leafbird

While going through my photo archive today. I found this green bird that was shoot on new year day. Just one shot of this green in between leaves. I compared with other green birds that I had photographed earlier, none similar with this. So, my LIFER!.
Lesser Green Leafbird (Chloropsis cyanopogon)

Leaf Bird at Taman Negara Kuala Tahan

Blue-winged Leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis) ~ female

Blue-winged Leafbird ~ male

Eurasian Tree Sparrow with nesting material?

I noticed this Sparrow with fresh grass leaves at its beak one evening. I know this is not the food (they eat only grass seeds). Is this the nesting material?

Baya Weaver with nesting material

I have been following the progress of Baya Weaver nesting here in Raub, but never see the bird actually bring the nesting material to the nest. When Yien visited the grassland at 2.00pm, I told him that we might no see the bird in this very not afternoon. But he bring so much luck, for the male Weaver made more than ten trip to the nest with long lalang leaf (Imperata cylindrica). Amazing!.

master of weaving

Male Baya Weavers
(Ploceus philippinus)

Malkoha at Cenderai Tree

I was walking along a small jungle trail one Sunday morning when a bird flew into the bushes of Cenderai tree (Microcos tomentosa). I stopped and try to find it. It was hard to locate in that thick green-orange leaves. The bird stayed motionless with just the head pop-up and perfectly camouflage inside the tree.

Raffles's Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus chlorophaeus) - male

Recordist: David Farrow

Number 9 on 9th April

Giant/King Fern (Angiopteris evecta) pod

Yellow Thursday

Back lighted coconut leaves

Black-Naped Orioles (Oriolus chinensis) - juvenile

Paku Merah - Red Fern fronds

This Red Fern fronds are one of the ingredients for making Bubur Lambuk (rice porridge) - specialty during Ramadan.

Fern (Blechnum Sp)

With yellow Dragonfly

Asian Glossy Starling at Coconut Leaves

Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)

Common Tailorbird at Jackfruit tree

This is the same Tailorbird that foraging at the mangoesteen tree below.

Now I caught it at the cempedak tree (Artocarpus integer) (Jackfruit)



















Most of the frames are like this blur picture here.

I have to use manual focus because of low lighting at the dark understorey.

Common Tailorbird at Mangosteen tree

Common Tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius.

The loud chirping call of this tiny bird always make me running for my camera.

This morning I managed to photograph while it was foraging at the mangosteen tree at my backyard.

Taking picture of small warblers like this is never been easy.

Serindit - Hanging Parrot feeding Mistletoe flowers

Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot - Serindit
(Loriculus galgulus) ~ female.



This 'dedalu' (mistletoe) grew on top of mango tree. Here my old post about this dedalu.






Blue-crowned hanging parrots mainly eat fruits, nectar, buds, flowers, seeds, and occasionally small insects.
Example of fruits: - Chiku by Ken Poh, guava by Lam Chun See.








This is a male species, picture by themonnie. I think this bird must be in captivity, so sharp with only the normal lens (50mm at f2.2) used.
Image taken from Wikipedia.

Fern

Nephrolepis biserrata












Acording to YC Wee who is a Professor of Botanist -
" the second shoot looks like resam"

Paku Resam ( Dicranopteris curranii )