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Saturday 4 October 2014

Oriental Plover

I decided this afternoon to do some easy birding as I haven't been feeling the best lately. So rather than go on a jungle walk I took out the car for a drive around the grassy areas behind the seawall.

To my surprise there were two oriental plovers on the pitch next to the clinic. Not only a great find for Panaga, but also a lifer for me. I suspect one of the birds to be a juvenile, the other an adult loosing its breeding plumage.

The second rarity drove up to my car ten minutes later, a fellow birder in the name of Kolbjorn. In my 5 years in Brunei I have never met another birder unplanned in the field; there clearly is a first for everything. We spend a good amount of time to get a photo of the plovers. There was still some distance to overcome, but in the end I did manage to get some keeper shots.
Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus)
Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus)
Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus)
Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus)
Not bad for a casual drive on a leisurely Saturday afternoon.

Folkert, 04/10/2014

4 comments:

  1. Congratulations! Please let one fly here to Sabah :p

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  2. Thanks Zaim; your ruddy-breasted crake is also not to be sniffed at!

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  3. Nice bird, and a nice clean BG on the Oriental Plover shots !

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  4. Thanks, I was quite pleased to still "score" a lifer in the last 2 weeks!

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