26 December 2007

CHRISTMAS 2007

Christmas was quite a slow this year but a sober christmas for once. Spent the Chritmas Eve with my youngest brother and addition to that my parents from Sandakan came to visit us too.

No birding since the last barred tailed godwit.

Quite slow but work seem to pick up momentum.

Preparing next year work and also birding trip, maybe to Manila or China.

Not sure yet, but will choose one destination.

**Wishing all Birders and Photographers "Happy New Year and Happy Birding"

13 December 2007

Barred tailed godwit - Limosa lapponica

Received SMS text from Jason aka Harokuro 0917am, barred tailed godwit at near Tg Aru.

Drop everything when looking for him and other birder's, Andrew and Karim. I did not brought
my scope or bino but good friend Jason allowed me to use his scope.

Beautiful bird, my first godwit for this year. There were others birds too, Chinese egret , Greater egret, Pacific reef egret, Grey-tailed tattler, Whimbrel.

Thanks Guys.

This winter visitor is commonly migrate to New Zealand as per information from Wikedia Commons.

Extract for reference:

Migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica.Bar-tailed Godwits have recently (March 2007) been shown to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Using satellite tracking, birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked all the way to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group) "The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km, but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km. This is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other Bar-tailed Godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand."

04 December 2007

Blue Mountain

Kinabalu Mountain

Was taken 2 months ago while flying for Sandakan.

The pilot was quite sporting that day, gave us some appourtunity to snap some rounds before
the clouds covered it.

03 December 2007

Lapwing

Been quite a good surprise for last week, grey headed lapwing sighted by horukuru. Lucky for him and we did try to look out for it but no luck.

The sighting of migrating birds in Sabah has been greet with members regularly posting and sms to others.

Picture of Grey headed http:www.horukuru.blogspot.com

Keep up the good work guys.

Temminks Sunbird female

Temminks Sunbird female

Temminks Sunbird

Temminks Sunbird

Indigo flycatcher

Indigo flycatcher

Yellow Breasted Warbler

Yellow Breasted Warbler

Black Collared Starlings

Black Collared Starlings
2 birds , winter from South China

Starlings Video

Little Heron

Little Heron

Grey Tail Tattler

Grey Tail Tattler

Crested Myna

Crested Myna

Chesnut Cheeked Starling-Sturnus phillipines

Chesnut Cheeked Starling-Sturnus phillipines
Second Lifer

Pink Necked Green Pigeon - video

Crested Myna video

Pink Necked Green Pigeon

Pink Necked Green Pigeon
My best ever effort with digiscoping

Cattle Egret!!

Black Collared Starlings

Black Collared Starlings
Lifer of the Day....spot at Penampang-Dongongon roadside

Oriental Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole
At the road side Penampang/Dongongon bypass

Black Headed Munia

Black Headed Munia
Shot at padi field at Penampang

Waders feeding

Waders feeding
digiscope

Ruff - digiscope

Ruff - digiscope
Only bird / Penampang rice field

Black Wing Stilt - digiscope

Black Wing Stilt - digiscope
Taken at Penampang roadside

Wimbrel - digiscope

Wimbrel - digiscope
Sighted at Lok Kawi Mud flat

Pacific Egret - Grey Form

Pacific Egret - Grey Form
digiscope

Snipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP6RE_IS_k

Sunset

Sunset
Nature

Digiscoping Equipment

Digiscoping Equipment

Equipment use for birding

  • Nikon D300
  • SLIK tripod / Monfrotto ProB tripod with Monfrotto Video Head 701HDV
  • Kowa Universal adapter
  • Canon G9 / Nikon L16 Coolpix
  • TSN603 with 45X wide angle / 20X wide angle
  • Nikon Monarch 10x42

Birding at Tambunan

Birding at Tambunan
Mountain Barbet / Andrew and Karim in action

Birding Time with Good Friends

22 April 08

Late updating, few trips with Jason and CK. We had a good sight of the Whitehead Spider Hunter. They took pictures (digiscoping). Have not seen it yet.

Jason on the scope for Whiteheads broadbill

Jason on the scope for Whiteheads broadbill
Broadbill quest

CK (front carrying his scope) and Jason

CK (front carrying his scope) and Jason

Jason - Tabin restaurant platform

Jason - Tabin restaurant platform

Tabin

Tabin
Jason - bird spotting