Betau Valley

Betau Valley

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Rhythm of the forest

The fair weather for the past week was good news because I get to do some activities that are reserved for dryer times. The jungle is much greener and the streams are flowing with fresh and clean water...

In the blurred center is the beautiful and rare Leaf Butterfly, Kallima limborgii. It was attracted to oozing sap of a freshly cut torch ginger stem near a bamboo grove...

Not far away, another bamboo grove was dug for hunting purpose - someone had surely hunted either porcupine or bamboo rats...not that it is unusual as this path snakes through miles of prime Orang Asli territory...

A translucent fruit in the shades by the stream...

A small pool where tiny snakeheads, barbs and Bettas live...

A group of Graphiums came puddling under the hot sun...

The mid day sun filters through the canopy onto the clear water stream...


A denizen of the shades by the stream...

Another guarding its watery sentry spot...

An aquatic plant, Crytocoryne affinis by the stream's edge...

A burst of colour from a Spotted Jay, caught in mid-flight...

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