A day rest at home and then followed by a photography trip with 3 Taiwanese. Energetic and fun being with them for 8 days.
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Day Trip 8th April 2018 - 3 species of Pitta
Another trip with Henk. Yes, he is back in KL. We have traveled to several different habitats before but this time we are covering the open country and small patches of mangrove at the coast. Highlight for this trip is the 3 species of Pitta in a short period of time. Amazing and it was lots of fun birding with him. Very determined and birding with patience.
Birding Couple from Taiwan 1st - 7th April 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
"This is the first time for my wife and I to visit Peninsular Malaysia, and we want a professional guide to strengthen the success of this trip, so we contact Weng Chun for the arrangement. He answered our questions quickly, also tried to understand the way we used to birding and take photos, also given a detail plan for us, we had a very good first impression and decided to have this tip with him. As flexible birders we brought binoculars and hand-held camera gears without tripods. Weng Chun adjusted the trip plan with more flexibility to meet our demands, which made us to see and take photos of more bird species even some tough targets. He also paid lot of attention to our food and accommodation situation and make sure we're fine and comfortable for all the logistic arrangement, very considerate. Weng Chun has expertise and rich knowledge as a birding guide, and also excellent eyesignt and hearing that always can find hidden birds or calling, which helped us to find a lot new species that we were not aware, so impressive! In a word, we quite enjoyed this 7-days fruitful trip with Weng Chun, couldn't be better. If you want a professional birding tour guide in Peninsular Malaysia, Weng Chun is highly recommended!" - Jimmy, Taiwan
I only guided 2 birders. This photo at the top of this post shows my guests were surrounded by 2 big groups of photographers from China and Taiwan, as well as 2 local couples. For 7 days, we covered the highlands, lowland forest and coastal grassland / patches of mangrove trees. Lots of good birds because we managed to cover more grounds walking around without tripods. Ok, I had a tripod but it was a lightweight tripod for my spotting scope. :D
Main targets: Pitta & Kingfisher 28th March 2018
Guided my first Philippines guest today! Benjamin is an avid bird photographer and he has his favorite species of birds. So we went out looking for Kingfisher and Pitta.
Fraser's Hill 26th - 27th March 2018
Sudip was on a family trip and he contacted me for guiding in the hill station. He arrived on the day when I was leaving on 25th March. Yes, it's a back-to-back trip at Fraser's Hill. Tiring? Yes, definitely but it is the joy of meeting new birding guest (friend) and seeing happy faces encourage me to continue my work as a bird guide. His daughter already showing an early sign of becoming a birder, she is so interested with the birds and she can even remembered the names very very well.
Mangrove & Highland 23rd - 25th March 2018
Out in the field again for another 3 days covering the mangrove of Kuala Selangor and the highlands of Fraser's Hill. Exciting trip too! Broadbills, Barbets, Partridge and of course not forgeting a close encounter with the Brown Wood Owl twice!
Krau Forest 19th March 2018
I went to check out Krau forest early morning. Met a birding tour group and a local photographer there. It is good to see some keen birders around.
