I was checking on my minivet series for reference and found that my Scarlet posting had gone missing even from my archive of lifers. So after consultation with LeeFung of regular sighting of a family of post-nesting minivets in Taman TAR I was quick to go last weekend. The last I sighted the bird was in Sg Perdik and Sg Congkak Hulu Langat.
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| The worn out male in its striking red and black coat. Its rump has a bald patch. |
Scarlet Minivets are usually seen in lowland forest fringe and are familiar with human presence. They look similar to the Fiery which are more highland birds circa 500m (nearest to see is Awana). The Scarlet is the largest minivet you can find in Malaysia coming at 21cm /8 inches ie they have a longer tails. Its red wing patch is clearly isolated ie its tertial and primary that what the book says but I don't see the difference le.
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| Juvenile Female with its scaly grey crown |
Thank you again the ambassadress of TAR for the guidance and Joe for the company to get some new collection of this bird so much nearer from my residence some more. In Borneo side you can get the rare Rosy and the other vagrant Swinhoe's minivet aka Brown-rumped.
These photos were shot with my EF 400mm f4 L DO lens mounted to my new Olympus OMD-1 Mark III with Viltrox adapter M2. Sorry to say the setup did not yield many useable photos. Of the 500 odd pictures taken; only less than 15 photos can be used. All the pictures need much post-sharpening even full-frame shots. Any capture of passerine birds high up in the canopy say50-60 feet aways were soft without details. Maybe the setup needs tuning Vitrox please help!!!!.
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