Went off to Kuala Baram this morning to check out the usual suspects, none was sighted from where I was standing which was quite a way from the flats. Along the route there were several Little Egrets, Intermediate Egret skulking along the waterways and drains. No signs of Collared Kingfisher at the usual spot. Drizzles turned quickly to rain, I got back into the car and drove to the office.
Decided to return to the same spot at lunch. It was still drizzling then too but not as heavily as this morning. Perched on the usual top of rockwall vantage point, I could hear the Common Kingfisher calling but couldn't place the exact location it was calling from. Now and again the waders would chirp in when they squabble.
There were clumps of Red-necked Stint, Lesser Sandplover, Sanderling feeding at the mudflats ... not in extremely large numbers but perhaps 100-200 individuals of mixed flock. Also heard was Pacific Golden Plover squabbling between the clump of sedges towards the middle of the flats.
It was a quickie lunchtime birding session before rushing back to work. Along the roadside just by Shin Yang's new oil palm plot sat a lone Grey-headed Fish Eagle, he's keeping a close eye on the surrounding drainage system from his high perch. Other than the dead tree trunk he's stationed on, there isn't anything else standing other than a crop of palm oil ... poised to take over the entire landscape in the not so distant future.
The eagle flew as a lone fisherman dipped into a canal nearby to check his net, the guy too was probably on his lunchbreak. I drove back to the office.
Phew! Glad I got that out of my system, next onwards to the wet and flooded lakes of Pujut 7 this Sunday.
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