Gunung Telapa Buruk, Negeri Sembilan

27th February 2011

Duration: 4 hours

MNS Selangor Branch Bird group organised a trip for Birdwatching on a Sunday morning at Gunung Telapa Buruk, Negeri Sembilan.
I woke up at 4am just so to make sure I will arrive at the meeting point on time. Mr Tang was kind enough to lend me a seat in his car.

Asian Brown Flycatcher

We only went up about half way and started walking down from there.

Henry Goh

Almost all the birds I saw there were Lifers for me, except for the Verditer Flycatcher.
Although the group recorded a total of 37 species sighted and heard, I only saw about ten of them! That's like 27%!  !!!
yikes lots of catching up for me to do..

This Leafbird was one hard bird to spot. Very well camouflaged among the leaves.
No wonder it's called a "Leafbird"!

Blue-winged Leafbird

Drongo Cuckoo

Ashy Bulbul

Golden Orb Weaver

I'm no expert of spider ID, but I conclude that it is of the species Nephila maculata with 99.9% confidence! Why do I say so? Because Wikipedia does! click the link and scroll to the middle of the page. Exact same spider features!

of course, the 0.1% error could be due to incorrect data on wikipedia. 

Anyway most of the other websites I found shows the same spider picture 

so yeah.. Most probably I'm right! :)

Water from some river.
Very refreshing, drinkable or not, I dunno.

Black-thighed Falconet

Couldn't get a clear photographic opportunity of this Malkoha as it was skipping among the branches.

Shy bird.

Red-billed Malkoha

This Trogon was the opposite instead!

It perched there for quite a long time, letting us snap snap snap till we had enough!

This time it's us who walked away, and not the bird. :D

Orange-breasted Trogon

Here, I saw my first cicada. Two different types of them.

Are these counted as Lifers? :P

Apparently only Males "sing". They sing to attract females for mating.
I recorded their mating call if you are interested.
 (pardon the motorbike sound in the middle heh)

This trip was fun for me with 9 new species sightings checked off my checklist! :)
The down part was that I didn't get much photos hehe
Got to know some fellow birders and I'm sure I'll be seeing them soon enough!

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Gunung Telapa Buruk, Negeri Sembilan

Coordinates: N2 50.455 E102 04.145 (peak)
                    N2 50.863 E102 00.112 (to trail head)