Another great day at Gunung Datuk

Post mountain climbing event just a day before at Gunung Datuk.

The wait is fruitful even though there are no appearance of barbets ...

Olives and black head are very common here.

Olive-winged Bulbul
Pycnonotus plumosus

Black-headed Bulbul
Pycnonotus atriceps

The guy with David Beckham hair-do got us all excited ...

Chequer-throated Woodpecker
Picus mentalis

A day at the beach ... Belimbing

White-throated Kingfisher
Halcyon smyrnensis

Belimbing invasion ... that was not reported in newspapers



Black Baza
Aviceda leuphotes

Black Bazas identified from their under body pattern and wing shape,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Baza)
thermaling over small town Belimbing.

Black Baza
Aviceda leuphotes

All 19 of them ...

Gunung Datuk birding ...

Birding in Malaysia, stake out at the base

of Gunung Datuk. Sweat and blood in exchange
for these shots ... the mosquitoes had a good time.

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
Ficedula zanthopygia



Black-headed Bulbul
Pycnonotus atriceps

Olive-winged Bulbul
Pycnonotus plumosus

Striped-throated Bulbul
Pycnonotus finlaysoni

Red-throated Barbet

Megalaima mystacophanos

Segamat river bank ...

Common Iora
Aegithina tiphia

Cameron Highland Flowers ...