Well, it looks as if some Kind Soul has certainly taken the Spanner out of our Works with the Stats "rocketing out of all proportions". Friday's figure clocked in at a 'huge' 764, almost doubling the record to date, but followed by a MIGHTY 1100 (my own count) while the official figure from the Blog Provider was a 'massive' 1635!!!! Whoever this may have been we very much welcome the boost and Thank You accordingly and hope today's Post proves enjoyable!!!!
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Harking back to the Post of the 2nd inst we described how, due to time constraints, we had to by-pass Fraser Hill on our first visit to Malaysia. A world renowned site for Bird Watching, in sumptuous surroundings, it is certainly part of my Top Ten list of such places! However, to add to that magic there was the meeting and immediate bonding with those 3 Dutch Birders
but something potentially far more interesting was perched at the side of the road and while excitement prevailed we all jumped out to find aninjured juvenileCRESTED SERPENT EAGLE
quite upstaging my Glossy Swiftlet 'in the hand' at Fraser starting this stage of the adventure with an Eagle 'in the hand' comes close to being unbeatable!!!!While also en-route the continuous calling and occassional glimpses of the huge Pheasant
Gone was the opulence of the former location but by no means was this a less comfortable or welcoming place as the images surely show.LARGE-BILLED CROWCOMMON TAILORBIRD
ACCOMMODATION
and other Mammals were on the loose.TEAKRED-THROATED BARBETJAVAN FROGMOUTHWATER BUFFALOLITTLE GREEN PIGEONRope Bridge Across the Gorgecouldn't get enough of this!SIBERIAN BLUE ROBINGOLD PANNERSPHEASANT-TAILED JACANA MALASIAN TAPIR
One of our mutual desires was to see just one of the small family group of
Broadbills
but with little more than a couple of hours of our 4 days left it was looking less and less likely!
Just along the toe-path from here we encountered not one, not two but three species of these tiny, very mobile and shy Birds. All were seen well but none of us were able to capture a sensible image of any of them, so we had to borrow some!BLACK and RED BROADBILLGREEN BROADBILL
and finallyBLACK and YELLOW BROADBILL
before heading off for a finalPINT and PIE
My Way!