Take The Path Less Ordinary

A bee-eater’s life is more like a plot taken out of TV soap series. Deceit, sleaze and power struggle, almost everything naughty and nice you can think of happens.
Bee-eaters dig burrows for nesting. When a female leaves her nest to feed, other females may sneak in to lay eggs, fooling the neighbour into raising a [...]

Birds of same feather sometimes don’t flock together. One such fine example is coastal Perak. The shoreline is practically teeming with birds of every pomp and pageantry, all congregating together to feed on nature’s bounty.
Kuala Gula needs no introduction but that’s just a blip in Perak’s map. Imagine the scale of opportunity if one [...]

Overview
There’s no signboard, no landmark, not even a clue on how to get there - which is not necessary a bad thing. After all, too much publicity will never make a good photography haven.
Getting there is an adventure itself. Strictly 4×4 stuff.
The outback of Malim Nawar is the prefect off-road retreat that has something [...]

We saw them today!
While trotting around in knee-deep muddy swamp forest this morning near Kuala Gula, we spotted the Milky Storks (Mycteria cinerea) or Burung Botak Upeh, which literally means bald upeh bird, tending their lofty nest. It was 9:30am and the sun has just peeked out of the cloud-dressed horizon.
The morning was beautiful, and [...]

Kingfishers are romantic birds.
The bird is an expert fish hunter (which is obvious) but not many know it scores with the ladies too. For courtship to succeed, a male kingfisher usually offers titbits to the female it has the hots for. Offerings come in the form of fish and insects. And if that’s not [...]