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Avian Report Bukit Tinggi October 2021 - Birding to restart with lifting of MCO for interstate travel in Peninsula Malaysia 11 October 2021

 My Fuji XT-2 was returned from YL without any repair. The nearest Fuji Service Centre is now based in Singapore and it cost a bomb just to repair my camera  flash mount of about RM1000. So I say forget it and please return it as I can live with it without flash. It still function but in bright background open field birding; my picture exposure can go hairwire with burnout pictures I do not really know why. 

You better think twice if you want to invest in Fuji gear as there is no local service centre in KL anymore. Maybe I will be moving to Olympus since I was given a OM-D1 Mk3  as a parting gift. But still waiting for an used 300mm f4 lens. 

Anyway  got back my camera in time for a half day recce to Bukit Tinggi  Pahang just to restart birding  again. I am now retired and I can bird during the weekdays without the tourist crowd. With less crowd in Bukit Tinggi there were many birds to see. 

The highlight of trip is the close encounter of a family of Dusky Broadbills.  I was shooting handheld at 1/60s and did  not expect any sharp photos.

On the way up I met Wendy and her Penang-kia friend Nancy and Alex who were  shooting this Treeswift at close range of 30-40 ft. Rarely you can shoot them so close. There are plenty of them along the road side.

The female  Orange-breasted Trogon pay us a visit but the female was too shy to come close as we were rather rowdy down at the trail. 

At the Ayam port I was hoping to see some migrants but no thrush, robin, flycatcher or any rarity in the month of second half of October. The resident peacock pheasant, white-rumped sharma,  a skirtish rufous-browed flycatcher & Ochraceous bulbul were all we saw there. Surprisingly they are very shy the whole morning coming out only once or twice.