"My husband and I went for 6D5N birding with Weng Chun (first two days with his assistance Adam as Weng Chun with another guests) at the area of Peninsula Malaysia which included Bukit Tinggi, Krau Forest, Fraser’s Hill & in Kuala Lumpur area. Weng Chun is absolutely amazing at spotting (both by ear and sight) & locating the birds. He can drive (safely)as well as hear the birds call and stop the car to find the birds where situation is possible. Before the tour, we communicate thru email with Weng chun and he asked us about our target birds and we named a few. But after 6 days, we have over 129 species of birds seen and most of them able to photograph and video too. On the way of our tour, we kept senting some of the bird’s photos to our family to share our findings, and all our family members were amaze by the beauty of the birds. Really thank you Weng Chun to show us the nature beauty of Malaysia !!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! "
Back-to-back trip. Tired ... exhausted but still want to enjoy guiding and going out to the field looking for birds for enthusiastic birders like Janet and Ray.
First, they covered the forest of Hulu Langat which is the most productive birding spot around Kuala Lumpur. Next we head up to the highlands for the usual targets of Mountain Peacock Pheasant and Ferruginous Partridge before going down to a nearby lowland forest for babbler, trogon, broadbill, woodpecker and hornbill. A birding trip in Peninsular Malaysia is never complete without making a trip to the premier birding spot at Fraser's Hill.
I think I have stretched them a little too much, birding before dawn while extending the birding hours until night (just like what I normally did with all my guests, and my guests from France from recent trip also experience the long birding hours, and jet lagged but I am sure they all wanted that and enjoyed it although exhausted).
Early morning at the stake out for the target species
Observing movement in a fruiting tree, we found Sooty Barbet, Black-browed Barbet and Black-crested Bulbul here
Woodpeckers high up in the tree
Also found a few Whiskered Treeswift in the morning
A few species of babbler and bulbul showed up for a short observation and photography
Scarlet-rumped Trogon was calling when we we about to leave the spot
Can you locate the bird in this photo?
Ray was trying to find that bird in a small gap among the leave
The next morning, we had a Crimson-winged Woodpecker. Ray got a video
Awesome looking bird, impossible to miss it. It has incredible striking color.
Green Broadbill with iPhone SE + Kowa TSN-501
Black Hornbill
Together with a few local birders and another group of HK birders, we waited for almost 2 hours but it finally decided to showed up
We met the same group of HK birders the next morning
Everyone sharing observation and helped each other to see the target species. Only a female individual, oh well....we can always try tomorrow.
We were back to the same spot in the afternoon, and seems like we don't need to come back tomorrow morning for the male bird....we got the male...finally
Janet admiring the male individual
Green Magpie for our last morning session in the hill station
Again, we saw the Green Magpie with just-arrived birders
