It has been quite a while since i last posted an entry into this blog. It is not that i have stopped birding but i have been quite busy with work. I have done some birding here and there but did not have the time to sort out my photos and simply did not have time to edit them.
There is one species that i have been trying hard to take a record shot for so long but i simply did not have the luck. It is a matter of not being at the right spot at the right time. But this time the lady luck was on my side as the species i was looking for for so long just showed up while i was taking a break eating my banana fritters by the road side. It must have been attracted to the sweet smell of the fried banana i just bought a couple of minutes earlier at a stall not far from the spot i was seating at. Birds must have an acute sense of smell i think. So next time i know what to do to attract these little birds to come to me instead.
Sultan Tit, sound a bit vulgar isn't it? I mean why would anyone want to insult a Sultan by combining a word which refers to a certain part of the human sexual organ? Couldn't he or she have selected a better name? One guy got into trouble by saying out loud the name of the bird in front of the royalties in a birding function in the Fraser Hill! Lucky he got a book to proof he was not mocking the Sultan and his wife at the function.
Anyway, the Sultan Tit bird is a small size bird with bright yellow color at the belly, chest with black color on the wings and head, and yellow crest on top of the head. The yellow color is the favorite color use by the Sultans in Malaysia which explain the Sultan part, but i cannot figure out the Tit part...err maybe i need to study the bird anatomy more?Ha ha..
Anyway, here are some record shots of the bird that has been so elusive for so long:
