Good hunting on a holiday

Sometimes it takes patience to get the birds in view. Other times it needs luck. All the different birds in one day.
Just outside my house. Uncommon for me.

Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker

At a park. 
Pretty common.

Olive Backed Sunbird

Saw the same bird again. At a lake.

Olive Backed Sunbird

And again. Outside a house.

Olive Backed Sunbird

A super common bird that I would not even give the rest of the sightings a shoutout.

Yellow Vented Bulbul

A still relatively common bird. In the same park.

Black Naped Oriole

Lake-side.
Typical marsh or water-dwelling birds.

Grey Heron (L) and Intermediate Egret (R)

Oriental White-eye

A bird with a big beak. It usually forages in a group as teamwork lends many benefits. Less time exposed, scouting. A group means more competition so it is not always possible.

Scaly-breasted Munia

Another common bird found near waterways. The bigger the waterway, the further it can be found away from it.

Pacific Swallow.

A bird shot at an extreme distance (Across a lake. Up a tree. Dusk.). At that distance high up on a tree, all I could see with my eyes was a dot.

Stork-Billed Kingfisher

Looking rather unhappy.

Stork-Billed Kingfisher

Juvenile Blue-throated Bee-eater. It lacks the brownish crown on its head.

Blue-throated Bee-eater

Coppersmith Barbet

Another waterway/marsh bird.

Purple Heron

A kingfisher that can be found away from water. A tree kingfisher and its diet is not exclusive to marine life. It is not good news for fishes. It just means bad news for critters that the kingfisher can catch.

White Throated Kingfisher

Old proof that it eats fishes. (Different bird as it was taken a few years apart at a different place.)


Parakeets are vegan birds that are intelligent. When you cannot eat meat, you need to have brains to figure out where to get nutritious nuts and seed. These bird brains are foraging for food in a palm tree.

Rose-ringed parakeet

Distant cousin

Long-tailed parakeet

A bird not giving a care about the sign.

Collared Kingfisher

A better view of the bird and its interpretation of the sign.

Collared Kingfisher