I captured this bird on some years back.I was driving a Kembara on a bicycle track along the Hulu Kinta area when i saw this bird in the trees...it had rained earlier so i guess it was wet and was ruffling its wing to shake off the water...it was big.. way bigger than the house bird..and somewhere half the size of a crow .
.it had colorful feathers and it was in the bushes...i stopped the car and started photographing it..as you would imagine it flew away..but it went to the open space and perched itself on a higher branch...and spread its wings.....wow this was an opportunity...then my camera was a nikon coolpix...shutter intervals can be... duh!!!!
but i creeped quietly and patiently snapped my bird ..it was sashaying its back feathers and spreading its wings...it went higher up the branch....which was good.....
i just clicked every time the camera was ready...zoomed in as far as i could and managed to get some of these shots below....
as it kept its wings open i guess it was just trying to dry itself...but what an opportunity.....being able to have a bird pose for you in the buff as it were!!....
..by the time i had enough it was almost at the top of the branch...wings all spread out...i got the feeling maybe this bird was being a little berlagak/ likes an audience ...but heck why not..now i can share these shots.....
..i called it the Tambun bird initially cause i saw it off the Tambun - Tg Rambutan road. Several months later i actually saw it again in the Bandar Baru Tambun area...but that was moons ago ...
KK
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