Birding 30 June 2006 @ Putrajaya Wetland
Sunday, July 02, 2006
It was a tour of the park while looking for birds this morning. This is the 2nd time I brought John and Jas around the wetland park. John wanted to get close to a tree with baya weaver's nests while Jas wanted to see the flyeater and the little bronze cuckoo. They arrived early at 7.30am and we walked towards the wetland cells. Along the way, there were sunbirds actively moving from melaleuca trees to bottle brush trees. On the same location, the common ioras were calling very loud. As we reached the cell, Jas spotted something on the other side of the wetland cell. 7 lesser tree ducks staying motionless. As usual the yellow-bellied prinias can be spotted here with the pied fantail. This is just a short stop just to check out the condition of the cell, and later we moved back to the main car park area. On the way, before reaching the tower, there were 3 rufous woodpeckers and a number of starlings.
During the tour along the wetland cell on vehicle, we managed to see (while John managed to photographed some) blue-throated bee-eater, blue-tailed bee-eater, pipit, white-headed munia, scaly-breasted munia, chestnut munia, olive-backed sunbird, purple heron, baya weaver, and pied triller.
And I also showed them a small island heronry in Putrajaya. The birds that were nesting there includes grey heron, purple heron, black-crowned night heron and little heron.
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