Sungai Kinabatangan
Black-and-crimson Pitta, seen from the boardwalk
behind the S.I. Jungle Lodge in Abai
Now that I have ‘discovered’ the pittas I see and hear them all the time.
The flowers in the gardens attract many butterflies, like this Black-and-white Helen left and the Bornean Mormon right.
Common Iora, also seen near the lodge.
Skinks are always around when the sun comes out.
Black-banded Skink.
The Orang Utangs, you can’t help but love them. Specially when they look as friendly as this young female, who was hanging around the Jungle Lodge. She didn’t appear afraid of the people who walked by, though she kept her distance, usually keeping a tree between us and her. She seemed quite interested in my umbrella, which I used both to hide from the rain and from her, so as not to scare her off when I came closer. I’m sure she understood my tactics and watched almost bemused. The heavy monsoon rain didn’t seem to bother her. Rather content she continued munching on her breakfast of young leaves, slowly moving from branch to branch, watching me as if I was a popular TV program.
A jungle mouse, we saw in the same bunch of trees as a
white Moonrat and a bearded pig.
It is almost as if having to live so close together in this small pocket of forest the animals have become more tolerant. Of each other as well as of people.
This Stork-billed kingfisher is sitting on a fire hose bridge, set up for orang utangs to cross a river. They cannot swim and this way they could expand their territory. If it works? Nobody has ever seen them using it.
Proboscis monkeys
Mother and daughter Proboscis, settling for the night.
The big alpha male has a soft appearance when he is at rest, but watch out when he comes in action!
Pigtail Macaques
A juvenile showing off it’s acrobatic skills.
Pigtail macaques are a lot bigger then longtails and have near-human facial expressions.
Yes, a VERY funny bum
Greater Coucal and Black Hornbill
In the fruiting season we saw a lot of animals munching away on all sorts of things, from small berries to big mangos It would make us feel hungry.
Edible or not? We didn’t dare try.
Malaysian Blue flycatcher
Blue-throated Beeeater
Purple Heron at the oxbow lake
2 Common Kingfishers
This Collared Kingfisher was sleeping on a low branch just above the water, we could nearly touch it.
Not the Buffy Fish-owl though. He’s wide awake!
A tiny orchid caught in the sun
Another creature of the night, our disputed Long-tailed Nightjar.
The crimson sunbird (above) and brown-throated sunbird (below) frequent flowers in the jungle as well as in gardens.
More Sunbirds, ever so colorful. They sometimes make me wait for hours, but the results are worth it.
Brown-throated sunbirds (above) and Copper-throated Sunbird at flowering ginger.
Things that sit on leaves, the Dark Bush Orange and
the Golden-legged Bush Frog.
Waking up the neighborhood, a Brown Barbet.
There are more than 30 different squirrells in Borneo, (including the cute Pygmy Squirrel, only 10-15 cm long from its head to the tip of its tail, always on the move and too fast for the camera) this one most often seen.
More wings and a few names
Don’t know the huge moth’s official name and the club-tail neither, there are so many.
Large Palm King, indeed very large, 70 mm
Malayan Egg Fly
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