ChinaBirds
Nick Sismey
29 October 2011 (Continued…)
Once out of Johor Bahru the road twisted and undulated where they didn’t need to undulate, the car bottoming out in some crazy places. The twists and turns through the Palm Oil Groves opened into a straight road (Photo1) heading towards the jungle.
A Black Winged Kite was hovering near a small village while a Greater Racket Tailed Drongo was taking in the morning sun in a tree next to the road.
462.Greater Racket Tailed Drongo----Panti-------------------------Malaysia
Mike almost swerved the car when a Black Hornbill flew across the road, the guy behind us not sure what we were doing. I was happy though, it was a lifer!
463.Black Hornbill-----------------Panti--------------------Malaysia
Common Myna and a White Throated Kingfisher were the last birds we saw before stopping at a track just after Mile Marker 270 (Photo 2), the start of the Panti Bird Sanctuary. While we unloaded our stuff and I was fitting my leech socks a Crested Serpent Eagle flew overhead.
464.Crested Serpent Eagle-----------Panti----------------------Malaysia
Mike was clearly totally unfazed by the leeches as he wore shorts, boots (not sure the Italian maker of my boots would like that) and socks. I was loaded up to do battle with repellent on my leech socks.
Keeping to the centre of the track I felt quite happy as there was no vegetation on the road and I could see if anything was coming towards me, I was also regularly checking my socks. Two lifers in quick succession took my mind away from things for a while, a Blue Winged Leafbird
and a Buff Vented Bulbul starting things off on a very positive note.
465.Blue Winged Leafbird----------Panti----------------------Malaysia
466.Buff Vented Bulbul-------------Panti----------------------Malaysia
It was already clear that a photographic record of the birds I was going to see in the jungle was going to be very difficult. The birds kept themselves either deep inside the jungle, where I wasn’t going to go, or high up atop a tree.
Another species of bulbul and leafbird in the form of a Cream Vented Bulbul and a Lesser Green Leafbird added to my record year list.
467.Cream Vented Bulbul--------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
468.Lesser Green Leafbird-------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
Mike’s (Photo 3) expertise was evident as he found a minute Chestnut Winged Babbler but both of us spotted a wonderfully named Raffles Malkoha (Photo 3), named after the one and only Sir Stamford Raffles of Singapore fame, both being lifers.
469.Chestnut Winged Babbler-------Panti--------------------Malaysia
470.Raffles Malkoha-----------------Panti----------------------Malaysia
Back to the leafbirds again and a Greater Green Leafbird (Photo 5) was one of the few birds that gave me a chance to photograph it.
471.Greater Green Leafbird------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
The temperature was rising all the time but pleasingly there were no sign of any rain clouds. Equally pleasing was that we now started to pick of a series of lifers. I was only just managing to jot down their names quick enough in my trusty pocket book. Mike was far more hi-tech having written his own programme for his mobile phone enabling him to record each bird in a matter of seconds and then download it all to his computer when he returned home. Both Red Throated Sunbird and Green Iora went into the phone and my book.
472.Red Throated Sunbird-----------Panti----------------------Malaysia
473.Green Iora-----------------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
More to follow……
Once out of Johor Bahru the road twisted and undulated where they didn’t need to undulate, the car bottoming out in some crazy places. The twists and turns through the Palm Oil Groves opened into a straight road (Photo1) heading towards the jungle.
A Black Winged Kite was hovering near a small village while a Greater Racket Tailed Drongo was taking in the morning sun in a tree next to the road.
462.Greater Racket Tailed Drongo----Panti-------------------------Malaysia
Mike almost swerved the car when a Black Hornbill flew across the road, the guy behind us not sure what we were doing. I was happy though, it was a lifer!
463.Black Hornbill-----------------Panti--------------------Malaysia
Common Myna and a White Throated Kingfisher were the last birds we saw before stopping at a track just after Mile Marker 270 (Photo 2), the start of the Panti Bird Sanctuary. While we unloaded our stuff and I was fitting my leech socks a Crested Serpent Eagle flew overhead.
464.Crested Serpent Eagle-----------Panti----------------------Malaysia
Mike was clearly totally unfazed by the leeches as he wore shorts, boots (not sure the Italian maker of my boots would like that) and socks. I was loaded up to do battle with repellent on my leech socks.
Keeping to the centre of the track I felt quite happy as there was no vegetation on the road and I could see if anything was coming towards me, I was also regularly checking my socks. Two lifers in quick succession took my mind away from things for a while, a Blue Winged Leafbird
and a Buff Vented Bulbul starting things off on a very positive note.
465.Blue Winged Leafbird----------Panti----------------------Malaysia
466.Buff Vented Bulbul-------------Panti----------------------Malaysia
It was already clear that a photographic record of the birds I was going to see in the jungle was going to be very difficult. The birds kept themselves either deep inside the jungle, where I wasn’t going to go, or high up atop a tree.
Another species of bulbul and leafbird in the form of a Cream Vented Bulbul and a Lesser Green Leafbird added to my record year list.
467.Cream Vented Bulbul--------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
468.Lesser Green Leafbird-------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
Mike’s (Photo 3) expertise was evident as he found a minute Chestnut Winged Babbler but both of us spotted a wonderfully named Raffles Malkoha (Photo 3), named after the one and only Sir Stamford Raffles of Singapore fame, both being lifers.
469.Chestnut Winged Babbler-------Panti--------------------Malaysia
470.Raffles Malkoha-----------------Panti----------------------Malaysia
Back to the leafbirds again and a Greater Green Leafbird (Photo 5) was one of the few birds that gave me a chance to photograph it.
471.Greater Green Leafbird------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
The temperature was rising all the time but pleasingly there were no sign of any rain clouds. Equally pleasing was that we now started to pick of a series of lifers. I was only just managing to jot down their names quick enough in my trusty pocket book. Mike was far more hi-tech having written his own programme for his mobile phone enabling him to record each bird in a matter of seconds and then download it all to his computer when he returned home. Both Red Throated Sunbird and Green Iora went into the phone and my book.
472.Red Throated Sunbird-----------Panti----------------------Malaysia
473.Green Iora-----------------------Panti---------------------Malaysia
More to follow……
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