Blogs from Sabah, Malaysia, Asia - page 3

Unfortunately it was raining at sunrise which is odd because I hardly ever rains at this time. But since I was up anyway, I went out to bird along the trails before breakfast. A Rufous-fronted Babbler was a nice bird to see which I had only seen once before and the common birds here are really cool. Interestingly, Black-and-yellow Broadbill is really common and easy to see while I spent ages and saw one at Sepilok and heard loads (the call is really cool and distinctive) at Danum but also never saw any. I think that's primarily because the canopy is much lower here than at Sepilok or Danum and it's easy to see the canopy birds. A particularly good bird from the morning was a Verditer Flycatcher which is a hill species that I thought ... read more

(I notice that at my end at least, there's an odd block of formatting text where each paragraph break should be on this post and the last. That's not from my end but is something wrong with Travelblog. Hopefully it fixes itself because there's not really anything I can do about it.) I started as early as I reasonably could with breakfast at the restaurant at 7:30 when it opened and then got my stuff and went to wait for a bus. There isn't actually a bus stop or timetable at Mount Kinabalu so getting out involves standing by the side of the road and waving at anything that looks like it might be public transport. I was on the road just after 8 and I got a minibus to stop for me just before 9:30. ... read more

My very scientific title refers primarily to the Bornean Mountain Ground Squirrel and the Lesser (Short-tailed) Gymnure. The former is very common and extremely cute and fluffy, the latter I’ve seen once very briefly dash into the vegetation by the side of the road near the top not far from the Timpohon Gate. They super cool and not actually mice or even rodents (they’re insectivores, in the hedgehog family). There are lots of different squirrels around though, many of which are very cool like the Whitehead’s Pygmy with its awesome white ear-tufts as well as the almost as small Red-bellied Sculptor Squirrel along with several other montane squirrel species. If you like squirrels, Mt Kinabalu is definitely the place to be! There are also lots of treeshrews that look confusingly similar to ground squirrels. But the ... read more

My morning birding at Danum was quite productive and the French guys also found it more productive than usual completely independent of me. This seemed to be a common trend with occasional days of great birding and others with almost nothing in the same areas. I added quite a few new species actually, see the list below which were all from only a couple of hours this morning, as well as a great and first-photo view of a Large Green Pigeon being worth noting. I've refined my breakfast strategy by this point too so I don't miss out on birding. Breakfast is officially 7-8:30 but if you're not there at 7 on the dot there will be no food left and you'll be stuck behind a long queue and waste loads of birding time so the ... read more

Tuto cast malajzie som prakticky preletel. V pohode by som tu vedel stravit este dva tyzdne, plus dalsie dva na juhu. Trosku sa mi vypomstilo ist sem bez planu. Hlavne co sa tyka dedinky sukau, kde som mohol mozno ziskat lacnejsie ubytko resp balicek. Druhe zavahanie bolo nekupa letenky medzi tawau a kk. Ta vychadzala skoro rovnako ako bus zo semporna do kk. Este tyzden a pol sa cena drzala ale potom uz vyskocila hore. Stopocanie tu neni take lahke ako sa hovori. Hodnotim seba, pary ale hlavne baby to maju jednoduche.i ked aj polka co som stretol vravela, ze ziadna slava. Sa jej stalo trebars, ze auto pri nej pristavilo, vodic si ju premeral a pokracoval dalej. Kazdy blog co som cital bol zhrozeny z palmovych plantazi ale mne to pripadalo normalne, jak u nas ... read more