Catching the food...

First rays of the morning sun emerged from the RDC rainforest and almost immediately the air was full of all kind of voices and noices of various morning activities when all the birds and all the wild life were up to the breakfast.

The energetic Black-and-Red Broadbills wetre busy catching the early worm between their home-building activities.

...and the Red-bearded Bee-eater was literally "playing with the food" - a Wasp caught for the breakfast.

The Rufous Woodpecker was catching-up with the ants on the tree trunk...

...and the Diard's Trogon had just caught a frog when I arrived to the spot.

 

I definitely started getting hungry and thirsty now and decided to turn back to the Keruing Cafe at RDC!

 

 

Enjoy!

Paula Camilleri

"Those precious bath-times..."

At RDC, even during the rainy seasons some days still can be very hot and birds, just like us, are in the need of a refreshing shower or a bath.

This Verditer Flycatcher enjoyed a long, refreshing bath in a nearby stream, soon accompanied by a little Bornean Blue Flycatcher.  They were taking turns clearly not disrupted of my presence, although I slightly felt like an intruder.

 

 

 

Later on, when walking down my favorite Kingfisher trail I found this fierce Purple-naped Sunbird taking a quick bath before disappearing back into the forest in a search for Ginger flowers.

 

 

When taking a stroll on the canopy-level  later on in the afternoon I found this lovely Bulbul couple enjoying a private spa, taking turns to refresh themselves and just indulging.  They remained grooming and resting for a long time conveniently before the evening meal.

And my "old friends", the Raffles's Malkoha  couple and the tiny Black-and-Yellow Broadbill were "grooming away" in their usual sactuaries.

Please, enjoy...
Paula Camilleri