Jas & John's Family Day Out in Putrajaya Wetland
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Unexpectedly, Jas and John came over to the wetland park with John's parents. I was not aware of their visit until I received John's call at 10.30am. I was told that they arrived around 8am and had sighted 13 species in the morning. Since they have not gone over to the nightjar site, I joined them for the walk to the site. Along the way, we saw yellow-vented bulbuls, eurasian tree sparrows, yellow-bellied prinia, pink-necked green pigeon & a purple swamphen. Upon approaching the nightjar site, we stopped. I pointed the nightjar to John's mom and she managed to spot it immediately. After a minute, Jas spotted a 2nd nightjar perching on another low branch of a simpoh air (Dillenia suffruiticosa). Then, John used his camera to focus on the bird so that he can showed to his dad where the bird perched.
After the nightjars, there isn't much left to see when I looked at my watch and the time was 11.30am!!! After a short break in the cafe, they adjourned to Putrajaya's heronry which is located 5-10 minutes drive away from the park.
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