Birding in Kuching

Photo rendart by MOOD...

 On my last trip to Kuching, I took time off to join my photograhy friends for birdwatching excursions around Kuching city.  The locations were at the Pustaka Sarawak ( Sarawak State Library), Bako and our garden in Kuching.  Here's some pictures  I took using Nikon D5100.

Little Green Pigeon at Pustaka Sarawak

Stork-billed Kingfisher at Pustaka Sarawak

Photo rendart by MOOD of the stork-billed kingfisher..

Barn swallow at Pustaka Sarawak

Egret at Pustaka Sarawak

Asian Glossy Starling or Perling at Pustaka Sarawak

Olive-backed sunbird at our house garden in Kuching - female

Olive-backed sunbird at our house garden in Kuching -male

Olive-backed sunbird at our house garden in Kuching -female

Olive-backed sunbird at our house garden in Kuching -female

White -collared kingfisher at Bako..

Golden yellow flowers of a jungle tree

 There are many "imported" or non-indigenous trees that are planted as wayside trees in Sarawak.  However, Sarawak is a wealth of forests and there are many local jungle trees can easily be taken out from its original habitat and planted in parks, home gardens or roads here. Among the successful native trees of Malaysia that are  planted in the urban towns or city environment are the Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus), Merawan siput jantan (Hopea odorata), Jelutong (Dyera costulata), Kelumpang burung (Sterculia parviflora), Eugenia oleina and Kedah Gardenia (Gardenia carinata).  At the Kambatik Park this week one jungle tree species has started to flower abundantly.  At the moment I am not able to identify the tree but it is obviously a very hard tropical wood tree.  It is located at Botanic Island One and the tree height is approximately 20 meters high.  I think this tree is a beautiful candidate for urban tree landscaping in Sarawak or Malaysia for that matter.

Location : Botanic Island One - The Kambatik Park, Bintulu.

ONCE UPON A BLOG

 Since 2007, I have blogging about Bintulu on a vast range of topics and these were incorporated in many blogs, thanks to Blogger.  One of my favourite blogs  is about the old images of Bintulu compared  with recent or contemporary ones.  It is a pictorial history of Bintulu that many outside Bintulu can sit comfortably in their arm chairs and time-travel to Bintulu during the 1950's in the safety of their homes or zoom into modern times in relative ease clicks away.  Bintulu is my hometown and I think I will continue to document its history as it marches in the field of time.  Currently Bintulu is deep into its fourth economic boom period and this boom has a much wider impact upon its societal changes compared to the previous ones mainly because the economic generators that push the town forward are scattered over its hinterland like its massive hydro-electric dam, reforestation projects, oil palm estates, timber exploitation and new industrial and township satellite zones at Similajau.  Below are some examples of the pictorial history of Bintulu.  For more pictorial history images please go to the original blog as in here ...>>>http://bintulub4now.blogspot.com/search/label/1950%27s

MNLG plant complexes with the port at top of picture.
( Tanjung Kidurong Industrial zone)

 At the inset is a picture showing the Tg. Kidurong Industrial zone which started the first boom in Bintulu starting 1979.  The main project was the liquified natural gas plant and a deep water port to enable huge LNG ships come in to harbour to load its cargo for export to Japan and other buyers outside Malaysia.

Second Industrial Satellite Zone at Similajau, 14 miles north of the Tg. Kidurong Industrial zone.
The new zone is serviced by new port.

Today, with all the industrial developments combined with agricultural, timber-based, power generation and off-shore oil and gas explorations and productions,  Bintulu is on the right path to be an industrial showpiece of the nation.
Happy Malaysia day Sarawak !!