Spiderhunter … same bird ? same tree ???

a beautiful bird .. and it love to stand on the banana flower … and these pictures were capture from 2009, 2010 & 2012 … (ohh .. I missed out 2011 …) and if someone ask me will I go back to the same place next year for the same bird + flower …. my answer is YES 😀

blinking trees … fireflies …

was my first experience shooting fireflies from top … look awesome … too bad the timelapse need more time to prepare .. so let me share the picture I capture …

... Blinking Tree ...

 

will have more to share about fireflies .. and I think I fall in love with it …

Dicruridae series: Drongo | 卷尾科 | liewwk Nature – 5

Mostly dark blue, black and making many lovely songs

1. Lesser racket-tailed drongo, 小盘尾,小盤尾,Dicrurus remifer, ヒメカザリオウチュウ, CECAWI ANTING-ANTING KECIL

2. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, 大盘尾, 大盤尾, Dicrurus paradiseus, カザリオウチュウ, CECAWI ANTING-ANTING BESAR

3. Black Drongo, 黑卷尾, Dicrurus macrocercus, オウチュウ, CECAWI SAWAH

4. Crow-billed Drongo, 鸦嘴卷尾, 鴉嘴卷尾, Dicrurus annectens, ハシブトオウチュウ, CECAWI PARUH TEBAL

5. Hair-crested Drongo (Bornean), 发冠卷尾, 髮冠卷尾, Dicrurus hottentottus borneensis, カンムリオウチュウ, CECAWI BERAMBUT

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1. Lesser racket-tailed drongo, 小盘尾,小盤尾,Dicrurus remifer, ヒメカザリオウチュウ, CECAWI ANTING-ANTING KECIL

– sub-montane, montane

– sometimes confused with Greater racket-tailed Drongo, which can differ by crestless, tail shape, and location

update 2015 April 1

Lesser racket-tailed drongo,小盘尾

update 2013 Feb 4

… where is Papa ? … Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo

update 2012 Dec 13

Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo

 

2. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, 大盘尾, 大盤尾, Dicrurus paradiseus, カザリオウチュウ, CECAWI ANTING-ANTING BESAR

– dark blue with 2 long-tailed

– very aggressive with any bird that comes close to the territory

– with crest

update 202205

– cloudy morning, this noisy bird making a lot of noise and keep disturbing other birds

– 多云的一天,这吵+凶的鸟一直在追其他鸟。

202205, Ulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia

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– few of them flying around at open space here and managed to spend few minutes with guests here

– 几只这漂亮的鸟飞来飞去。与客人拍了几分钟。

202205, Langkap, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

update 202111

– always like to capture this beautiful, common, noisy bird flying to show it’s racket-tailed.

– 一直希望拍到大盘尾的飞版。虽然不是要的绿背景,也蛮高兴。

202111- Fraser Hill, Selangor

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3. Black Drongo, 黑卷尾, Dicrurus macrocercus, オウチュウ, CECAWI SAWAH

– a winter visitor, normally found near grassland or paddy fields

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Crow-billed Drongo, 鸦嘴卷尾, 鴉嘴卷尾, Dicrurus annectens, ハシブトオウチュウ, CECAWI PARUH TEBAL

– another bird may confuse but different by the bill shape, size, black-face, and chest

update 202112

– an overall dark metallic blue drongo with thick bill and fork-tail

体型较黑卷尾稍为大些;体羽深辉黑色;嘴形侧扁,在鼻孔处其宽度与厚度几相等,嘴粗壮而钝;最外侧一对尾羽末端甚形卷曲,其与中央一对尾羽的距离与其跗蹠的长度几相等。跗蹠短而强健,前缘具盾状鳞。体羽灰或黑色。

202112, Selangor, Malaysia

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5. Hair-crested Drongo (Bornean), 发冠卷尾, 髮冠卷尾, Dicrurus hottentottus borneensis, カンムリオウチュウ, CECAWI BERAMBUT

– Overall dark. Long, thin, hair-like feathers on its forehead, present only in some subspecies, may be visible at close range. Normally single bird

– 中型鸟类,体长28-35厘米。通体绒黑色缀蓝绿色金属光泽,额部具发丝状羽冠,外侧尾羽末端向上卷曲。栖息于海拔1500米以下的低山丘陵和山脚沟谷地带,多在常绿阔叶林、次生林或人工松林中活动。单独或成对活动,很少成群。

update 202105

– this is borneensis. 

– Normally single bird joining the flock of laughingthursh, magpie. making drongo call

– 婆罗洲亚种(也建议分为独立种)

– 通常,鸟浪活动。

201905, Crocker Range, Sabah, Malaysia

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5dm3 HDR & Multiple Exposures ….

something you would say important but useless depend …. but it is always good to have rather than not an option for us ….

another 5dm3 add on features .. that I really happy with is HDR and Multiple Exposure …

by pressing the button in red.. we can choose Multiple Exp or HDR

 

while we want Multilple Exposure …. choose Icon Center… 2 Raw files will be shoot(depend # of shots configure) and one will be process

 

(meter the foreground and sky)

and default the result … (non Edit)

 

and HDR … there are few option .. and the Natural option is quite Natural look …

3 RAW/JPEG will be capture (and we can choose to save all images or only the HDR images which only in JPEG)

 

then .. the auto.default HDR output .. no PP

 

 

so .. how do you feel the output ? I would say .. it is good to have this features .. even may not useful every shooting but definate useful for some cases ….