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Testing My 20 Sounds in One Sound Medley

I was so tempted to test this beautiful idea of putting 20 or more sounds into one thumb drive.

After a very hard thinking I decided to perform the cut and paste. What I did was to compile all the good sounds that are in my collection and select about 3 minutes of the best part. Then arrange in a sequence so that the sound will be continuous and attractive.

Today tested the sound at Kepong KIP BH. Stayed for about 30 minutes to observe the birds reaction.

Not bad. The result was unusual but I better give them sometime to settle down.

I will be visiting the BH regularly to observe the reaction of those birds in the air especially around the BH entrance hole.

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If the sound's effectiveness is good it will be sold at 600 RM

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Wednesday

This week the tides are still not much good for photography - 2.1 and 2.2m all week, but, ever the optimist, I went to see what I could see today. I was also keen to see how the Malaysian Plovers' moult was progressing.

As expected, it was difficult to get close to the birds, but I was able to take some distant shots and do a count. On the construction site, new blue-painted pegs have appeared everywhere - no doubt the forerunners of house foundations. For today anyway, some Barn Swallows were making use of them as flycatching lookout posts, and they were quite approachable as long as I stayed in the car.



There were one or two stunning pinkish-purple flowers growing out of the sand. Their colours were so vivid I just had to take a photo! If anyone knows the name of this plant, please put it in a comment below this entry!



I got a few flight shots of the waders as they were moving around to nab the best spots to feed.




A flock of Red-necked Stints with a lone Broad-billed Sandpiper in there somewhere. See if you can spot it!




























It was nice to find a fairly obvious Little Stint (as Little Stints go!) among the Red-neckeds, but frustrating not to be able to get very close. The most marked feature was the long legs - both the tarsus and tibia seemed longer than Red-neckeds. The bill tapered to quite a fine point and was slightly but noticeably decurved, and the bird showed the distinctive 'round-shouldered' shape and turned up rear end I have noted on other Little Stints. The upperparts were nice and dark (though not as dark as these pictures suggest!) , and the bird had a good breast band. Structurally the bird looked very similar to one seen and photographed earlier in the autumn (see here) and could conceivably be the same bird.

In my attempts to get closer to the waders on the high tide mark I managed to step into a sink-hole in the mud and went in straight up to above my knees! Thankfully the surrounding sand was firm and I was able to pull myself out with the help of my tripod. Amazingly camera, scope and bins survived unharmed! My trousers and shoes weren't so lucky!





The lengths - or should I say the depths - to which I will go to get my photos!

There were a few more birds today - both in number and variety - than of late. Here's the count:

Pacific Golden Plover 8
Little Ringed Plover 3
Lesser Sand Plover 1
Kentish Plover 19
Malaysian Plover 11
Red-necked Stint 210
Little Stint 1
Broad-billed Sandpiper 2
Curlew Sandpiper 2
Common Redshank 500
Common Greenshank 30
Marsh Sandpiper 10
Whimbrel 1

Total 798

On my way from the site, I came across this confiding 1st winter Brown Shrike. Usually I find Brown Shrikes very shy and unapproachable (Tiger Shrikes, by contrast, are usually quite tame), but this one seemed engrossed in catching prey and wasn't too bothered by my presence (in the car).





It was amazingly successful at catching various bugs, and had a very high strike rate - probably about 80%.

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We can be very quot green quot

We can be very green!

Our true colour is green, green, green!

Swiftlet ranching can be very environmental-friendly and mother-earth loving.

In my eyes, I see the beauty and the genuine efforts of our green peace-loving fellow ranchers.

Nothing is perfect under the hot sun, I do not deny that some of us have created a mess to the public, however, honestly I still believe that most of us have done our earth good while relentlessly chasing after our dream...

Hey, the reality and the best thing is... by building BHs we have played our parts in 4R our earth's resources :

1) Reduce

2) Recycle

3) Reuse

4) Rescue & respect


How & what have we reduced?

We reduce material wastage by reviving the abandoned projects and transformed them into successful BHs. We are the saviour of the sick and unwanted projects!


What have we recycled?

We can recycle the swiftlet droppings or guano as agriculture fertiliser.

We also keep the guano for the new BH use.

It is zero waste!

What have we reused?

Of course we reuse the bird's nests!

The used bird's nest (after the young birds fledging) can be used for human consumption.


What have we rescued?

We save and rescue the swiftlets by providing them a comfortable sanctuary and a place called home, by doing this, we reduce the fatality.

More importantly: we respect & protect the wildlife!

(Sometimes I doubt that by shutting down the BHs, the infamous Perhilitan/Forest is protecting or eliminating the swiftlet population? Your guess should be as good as mine)


Having the above said, a normal person should have good faith in what we are doing and

should support what we have done so far.


Thank you!

Happy new year 2010 and good luck to all!

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Kapar Ashponds, Selangor

A family visit to KL allowed me a chance to visit Kapar on a couple of afternoons when the tides were good.









On the 28th I was accompanied by Ooi Chin Hock. The sky was quite overcast and the birds flighty, so photography was a challenge.

One of the very first birds we saw was a male White-faced Plover. During the 1990s I and several other observers recorded 'Malaysian Plovers' at Kapar. In retrospect, what we saw must have been White-faced Plovers, as Malaysian are rarely recorded on the west coast, and never away from sandy beaches. It was good to confirm that Kapar is still used as a wintering site for White-faced Plovers. Later we counted 13 feeding on the far side of the pond.





Repeated scanning of the enormous roosting flocks eventually yielded fruit. First, this attractive leucistic Lesser Sand Plover, with pink legs!



Then this rather odd breeding plumaged Lesser Sand Plover. Presumably it never moulted at the end of the last breeding season.



Brahminy Kites often harass the wader flocks, but I had not seen them actually catch a bird until today.



All that was left after the meal! Some feathers enabled us to identify the bird as a small Calidrid sandpiper, perhaps a Red-necked Stint or Curlew Sandpiper?



It was great to see a few Nordmann's Greenshanks (on the right of the Common Greenshank in this picture) - we counted four - our first of the season.



This pic shows a good comparison of the difference in leg and bill structure and colouration between Nordmanns' (right) and Common Greenshank.



Here's a video of the same bird.



This still from the clip above shows how distinctive Nordmann's is even from a distance (the bird is third from the right). The pale grey wings (with a darker 'shoulder' patch sometimes visible, paler head, thicker bill, shorter, thicker legs and deeper body shape all add up to quite a distinctive species, in some ways more reminiscent of Terek Sandpiper than Common Greenshank.



After three and a half hours of scanning the flocks, we finally turned up an ace in the pack! This Spoon-billed Sandpiper may be the same bird I saw last April. It stayed put long enough for me to take one sharp photo, and to get Chin Hock his life bird, and then the whole flock was disturbed by a marauding Brahminy Kite and we couldn't locate it again.

On the 29th, the weather was even more overcast, with frequent rain, and the birds were as skittish as ever, preferring the more remote corners of the ashpond. With photography out of the question, I concentrated more on counting. I located the white leucistic Common Redshank first seen on 17th August, and a Greater Sand Plover with orange legs (the same as or similar to one I saw earlier in the year), but not the leucistic Lesser Sand Plover, nor the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Best of all was an exceptional count of 35 Nordmann's Greenshanks (compared to only 4 yesterday).

Taking the best species counts from both days, just under 19,000 waterbirds were present over the two days:

Pacific Golden Plover 3
Grey Plover 200
Little Ringed Plover 20
Kentish Plover 2
"White-faced" Plover 13
Lesser Sand Plover 4,000
Greater Sand Plover 2,000
Black-tailed Godwit 150
Bar-tailed Godwit 15
Eurasian Curlew 4,900
Whimbrel 100
Common Redshank 2,470
Common Greenshank 350
Nordmann's Greenshank 35
Marsh Sandpiper 150
Terek Sandpiper 100
Common Sandpiper 1
Ruddy Turnstone 7
Red Knot 1
Great Knot 300
Red-necked Stint 2,500
Spoon-billed Sandpiper 1
Curlew Sandpiper 400
Broad-billed Sandpiper 25
White-winged Tern 250
Gull-billed Tern 736
Caspian Tern 24
Little Tern 5


Lesser Adjutant 1
Grey Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Little Egret 60
pond heron sp 1
Little Heron 2

TOTAL 18,916



Wall to wall waders! If you find the Spoon-billed Sandpiper let me know!

A good end to the year. Here's wishing you an excellent and happy New Year!s

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Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sepilok, Sabah

After three days of workshops in Sandakan, it was a nice change to get some fresh air at the Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC), Sepilok, which is just a half hour drive west of the town.

I stayed at Sepilok B & B, which was reasonably priced, clean, and more importantly, just a couple of minutes' walk from RDC.

At RDC I made a bee-line for the Bristlehead Tower and canopy walkway, with high hopes of getting great views of Bristleheads, which are regularly viewed from there.



A male Van Hasselt's (ex Purple-throated) Sunbird had its territorial songpost in a tree next to the tower. Outside of Singapore this is a difficult species to see, as it is a canopy specialist, so it was great to get eye level views here.



A large black bird making funny noises, but disappointingly, not a Bristlehead! A pair of Bornean Black Magpies foraged in the trees in the early morning.



Giant Squirrels in Sabah are an interesting colour variation on the animals in the Peninsula, with an attractive ringed tail.



The Prevost's Squirrels here look different as well, lacking the white flank stripe.





Fiery Minivets and Red-eyed Bulbuls were other visitors during the morning's wait.







The only crow species here is Slender-billed, which is rather scarce in the Peninsula. They're pretty shy, and these were my closest shots.





At the entrance to RDC, flowering plants attracted a variety of sunbirds, including Olive-backed, and more surprisingly, a Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker.























































A pair of Black-and-Red Broadbills had built their characterstic hanging nest over water. They appeared to be still building, and would bring a green leaf with which to line the nest whenever they returned to it.



Swiftlets aplenty! This is one of the darker species - Black-nest or Mossy-nest Swiftlet.



And an unfamiliar dragonfly to finish with.

So, no Bristleheads today - perhaps tomorrow...

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23rd December 2009:Olhos De Agua and the Alvor Estuary, Algarve, Portugal

A rare moment of blue skies! By migrating south to Portugal, we found we had exhanged snow for rain. Only two days out of eight were rainfree during our short visit.



Lesser Black-backed Gull. This was a family holiday rather than a birding trip, so most of my pics were taken near where we were staying, in Olhos De Agua, just outside Albufeira.















A selection of Mediterranean Gulls. 'Med Gulls' were at times the commonest gull around, and on other days completely absent.





















One of many sea stacks just offshore, beloved of cormorants as roosting and drying out places.



A subadult Great Cormorant.

We paid a short visit to the A Rocha field studies centre where we were treated to warm Portuguese hospitality by the couple who run the centre, Marcial and Paula. We also drove down to the marvellous Alvor Estuary nearby, though sadly the weather was awful!





A group of 17 wintering Greater Flamingos was an incongruous sight!



One of several Common Stonechats feeding along the edge of the saltmarsh.



And a Common (Greater) Ringed Plover feeding on the estuary side of the sea wall.





Crested Larks were numerous in the fields were cattle were grazing.



As were Western Cattle Egrets - looking much smaller-billed than their eastern counterparts.



A Black-winged Stilt (a male presumably) with an exceptional amount of black on the head and neck.

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