Fire-tufted Barbet

火簇擬啄木鳥

Last year around this time at Fraser’s Hill, I managed to snap some poor shots of this bird from far away and at the cost of a bite from a blood-sucking leech.

This time around, one of these barbets was more willing to appear in front of birders at a birding site as long as food is served. As a result, it served to become one of our unexpected and jubilant collections.

(7/5/2016, Fraser’s Hill)

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Blyth’s Shrike-babbler

Blyth’s Shrike-babbler 红翅鵙鹛 Birding in Fraser’s Hill often rewards you with a pleasant surprise such as this shrike-babbler which appeared on a tree just in front of the rest house we lodged in. (9/5/2015, Fraser’s Hill)

Streaked Spiderhunter

Streaked Spiderhunter 纹背捕蛛鸟 ( 俗名芭蕉鸟 ) In our young and early days, when we encountered a low banana flower bud at the end of a banana bunch cluster, we sometimes would pluck the finger-liked flowers, open its cover to sip a drop of clear crystalline nectar adhering deep inside at the base of the flower. It tasted as sweet and concentrated as honey. The older brownish looking flowers tasted even sweeter. Here in the early morning on top of Fraser’s Hill, we saw one of those targets the nectar is actually created for. An olive yellow streaked spiderhunter clipping on the flower bud with its sharp claws, was feeding on the syrup with a long-curved beak specially adapted for this purpose, a very satisfying and pleasing scenes to me. (8/5/2016, Fraser’s Hill)

Mangrove Blue Flycatcher

Mangrove Blue Flycatcher 红树仙鶲 The first picture is a juvenile, second is female adult, third is a male adult. Note that the juvenile looks quite different from the adults. They live in the mangrove swamps of Air Hitam Dalam and have got so used to human visitors they are not shy to get close. The juvenile is believed to have just left its nest not too long ago. (June 2016, Air Hitam Dalam)

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