Birding at Chenua (encore)

Today, I went birding at Chenua after a long break. It was raining the whole night and I thought that it might be futile in the morning but hope came - albeit sunshine later in the morning (an extremely hot one). As we arrived at around 9 in the morning, the place was already teeming with both birds and human activities. First stop - the rain tree just outside the school's compound...

 A Buff-rumped Woodpecker.

 Another one which I couldn't ID...

A Greater Racquet-tailed Drongo. They are pretty common in this village - I think we must have spotted more than a dozen on different spots. At this spot alone we must have seen about five of them...

 A silencious pair of Chestnut Malkoha hopped about the undergrowth of a small patch of langsat trees...

 A flock of Oriental Pied Hornbill appeared suddenly, the juveniles slipped quietly from our sight and this adult was trying to pry something from an ant nest on a coconut trunk.

that came to the floor...

 and above, some figs (surprisingly no birds)...We did however, heard the unmistakable metallic cries of the Coppersmith Barbet echoing from the wooded patches here and there.

 A lovely Loranthus, signs of the Flowerpeckers...

 And some came...Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker (female)...

A trio of Blue-throated Bee-eaters

 A Bumble-bee on the blooms of Cassia alata.

 Staghorn ferns on the soaring branches of an old durian tree.

 Lovely mauve flowers of the Bungor, Lagerstroemia flos-reginae, a common riverine tree in Malaysia.

 A pair of Hill Mynahs

When we return to the beginning point, all was quiet - a look up the branches explained it: the presence of a pair of raptors - the Black-thighed Falconet.