February 2022 Backyard photos

Yellow-vented Bulbul fly with food (insect)

Greater Caucal with food (Garden Snail)

Glossy Asian Starling forages on fruiting tree Salam fruits (Syzygium polyanthum)

Brown-throated Sunbird  - female

Kelicap Mayang kelapa (female Brown-throated Sunbird sucks nectar on the coconut flowers)

Magpie Robin and Yellow-vented Bulbul

Merbah menyorok di celah daun nyiur

Brown Shrike on a bamboo tree

Brown shrike preening

Rose Jepun - Portulaca grandiflora

Wild flowers - Pokok bunga balung ayam (Celosia argentea ) - ID by Junn Junaidah Hashim

Lalang,  Cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Bokeh
Rumput Gajah Elephant Grass (Pennisetum purpureum)

Oren (Oyen)

 

Morning Hike - Padang Golf Raub (Semantan Hulu, Pahang )

 Morning Hike Semantan Hulu, Pahang ☁️

Cloudy, 23°C, Feels like 24°C, Humidity 95%, Wind NE 1m/s

9:24 AM on Sunday, December 27, 2020

Lama tak memburung sejak PKP Covid 19. Kamera dan telephoto tersimpan sejak sekian lama.

Pada ahad 27/12/2020, saya pergi ke tempat biasa - Padang Golf Raub.

Tiada burung hijrah , luar biasa atau lifer.

Burung Tempua, Female Baya Weavers, tak  jumpa pulak spesis jantan atau sarang.

Puas mengejar kumpulan tempua ni, dua gambar di atas je yang sharp.

A Sepasang  'Terkukur'  Spotted Dove (Stigmatopelia chinensis)

Wak-wak, White-breasted Waterhen, sangat pemalu lari ke dalam parit

Murai Gila - Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica),  di pokok senuduk. Tak dapat pulak  gambar masa ekor kembang.

Sepasang Burung Punai -Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans), jauh bertengek didahan pokok leban.

Sekawan Pipit Pinang -Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata), makan rumput di tepi kolam Padang Golf Raub.

Seekor monyet berehat atas pokok mati

Birding during COVID-19 Pandemic

Birding at my backyard is a solo activity , that don't involve large crowd gathering.

Friday, 13 Mar 2020, 10:23 PM MYT - Malaysia positive cases = 197 cases, 0 death.
UPDATE:
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PKP (Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan)
FASA 1: 18 MAC - 31 MAC 2020
FASA 2: 01 APR  - 14 APR 2020
FASA 3: 15 APR  - 28 APR 2020
FASA 4: 29 APR  - 12 MEI 2020
FASA 5: 13 MEI  -  09 JUN 2020    (PKPB)
FASA 6: 10 JUN - 31 OGOS 2020  (PKPP)

*(PKPB) - Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan Bersyarat

*(PKPD) - Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan Diperketatkan

*(PKPP) - Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan Pemulihan

SARS-CoV-2 virus illustration from CDC
This Corona virus believed to be originated from bats.

Above picture from my posting on 11 January 2009 - baby bat  Myotis muricola
As all Ministry resource are focusing on Corina Virus, don't neglect on the old Dengue virus.

A worker doing fumigation to kill adult Aedes mosquito at my backyard.
"Dengue fever cases in Malaysia reached an all time high, hitting nearly 80, 000 cases and 113 deaths reported from January until Aug 3 2019" - Deputy Health Minister Lee Boon Chye

White-throated Kingfisher and Leopard Cat Road Kill

I was cycling Sunday long distance  to my favorite  Felda Krau 1 (Oil Palm Plantation), when noticed the road kill by the road side.
What a pity beautiful wild cat. There was no visible external injury, no trace of blood. Still looks fresh, probably hit by a vehicle in just a few hours before I arrived there.

Kucing Batu, Kucing Hutan, Bengal Cat, Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis).

Bengal Cat Markings - Pawprint rosettes.

Conservation Status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
More info about this mammal, HERE, and HERE

Khairi Bahar from Felda Tersang  Raub send me the picture of roadkill below.
He also found this bird (White-throated Kingfisher),while cycling.
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing)
Example of King Fisher road Kill , HERE, and HERE

Road kill or Roadkill?  haha! ;)
Merriam-Webster: Road kill =the remains of an animal that has been killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, road kill should be rendered as two words. However, like many compound words, the term is almost exclusively seen as one word, as in roadkill.

The Top 5 Types of Animals Killed on U.S. Roads
  Type of Animal Estimated Number Killed
1 Squirrels                       41 million
2 Cats                             26 million
3 Rats                          22 million
4 Opossums                    19 million
5 Raccoons                     15 million
Ref HERE

Tupai Horse-tailed Squirrel

400mm out of the dry box

After nearly 2 months of hibernating, finally, my telephoto is out...
and here are a common species in my backyard

Can you spot the similarities between this  Rhipidura javanica and  Canis lupis familiaris ?

Masked palm civet

Masked palm civet   ID Correction: Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)
I found this road kill while cycling on labour day
Local Name:  Musang Lamri Pulut

Location: Jalan Felda Krau 1, Raub, Pahang.

White-thighed Surili

Fraser's Hill permanent resident

White-thighed Surili (Presbytis siamensis siamensis) - juvenile

Squirrel from Himalaya

I have never been to Nepal or Himalayas, but one squirrel somehow escaped to Malaysia. ;)
Photographed this cute squirrel at Fraser's Hill, near the Jelai Resort.

Himalayan Striped Squirrel (Tamiops macclellandi)

Tupai

Horse-tailed Squirrel (Sundasciurus hippurus)

Oink!

Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) crossing the road to fairway.

Babi Hutan

Common Tree Shrew

I'm of out of bird picture, so this mammals for today.

Looks like a squirrel with it long bushy tail, but the face and long nose resemble a rat.
Common Tree Shrew (Tupaia glis)