Avian Behaviour October 2018 - Mating season in Lanchang

The mating season have officially started I guess in peninsula. In Lanchang many of the birds were pairing up and feeding together. The black-capped pair were very active feeding together. I witness several occasion the male will feed its mate. The female is a duller grey capped I suppose......







Then they is another pair of  Grey-cheeked bulbuls feeding together and rather intimate. No feeding offer was seen though

The other Babbler are the  regular Ferrugious which one of them will pick up the grub and flew into the undergrowth...probably to offer to its mate.

The single birds I saw include the male Diard's Trogon with its amorous call which I think is looking for a mate in the vicinity. It call out loudly at first. Since there is no new sighting I came out from the port to look for it and  hunt any lifers at the road side. Then while strolling along  I look backward at the calling trogon it was perch 30 ft from me at a low branch.  Lucky me.

 a lonely Yellow-bellied Bulbul

Yellow-eared Spiderhunter

Hairy-backed

I though it it was a new bulbul with its white eye-ring and greyish head (picture below).  It is actually a juvenile Spectacled Bulbul. The eyering will turn yellow as it mature.

A pair of Short-tailed was also seen but come out at different spot

The orange fruiting tree after Deerland attracted many bulbuls like the black-headed, red-eyed etc