When: October 30 2016 Weather Cool, 21C
Nikon P900, Leica Q
We set off at 545am from KL heading to Bukit Tinggi for a few hours’ birding, seeking the mountain peacock pheasant, ferruginous partridge, orange breasted trogon…….hopes were high…as I’d heard a lot about this place and we were being brought there by an expert…..
It’s about an hour’s drive up a twisting winding road till you get to the botanic gardens….and then we walked into the area where the mountain peacock pheasant was known to be….
daybreak at the botanic gardens in bukit tinggi
we set up our camouflage netting to wait for the peacock pheasant…
A cackling noise was made by this bird…
the white rumped shama
back view
front view
feeding
and then this rather drab but still attractive female siberian blue robin appeared…
there was quite a lot of activity in the trees overhead..
made by many liittle cuckoo doves
little cuckoo dove
head on view
many little things zipped around…yellow breasted warbler..
Pin striped tit babbler..thanks to Andrew for help in ID
ashy bulbul
bronze drongo
spectacled spider hunter
We saw a beautiful pair of great hornbills swooshing overhead, heard the sultan tit and orange breasted trogon but couldn’t see them….no sign of our main targets either…prob a result of the overnight rain…we finally moved to the botanic gardens where we got some nice shots of a juvenile tiger shrike.
tiger shrike
feeding
beautiful back view of tiger shrike
tiger shrike
So we ultimately were unable to see my target birds this morning 😦 …but it was still a fun outing with a few good sightings…
The Natural Traveller 
Wonderful photography!
I’m not an expert but the detail on those birds is amazing!
Pin-striped Tit Babbler for the bird you’ve labelled a Yuhina?
Thanks…. I agree it does look like the pinstriped tit babbler and have updated my post…