Other Birds of Ulu Dedap Rice Fields

In between the harrier surveys, we also took the opportunity to do bird watching. You will be amazed to find out that there were more than harriers in this huge rice field. Here are some of them:

There were probably hundreds of these egrets - mostly cattle and little egrets

There were also plenty of this Barn Swallow

A Grey Heron was also presence in this rice field

A juvenile Brahminy Kite.

This Black Kite was also presence here.

A lone Common Sandpiper was also sighted.

Pond Herons can also be found here though not in abundance.

This is a juvenile Lesser Coucal

It took less than a minute for Yang Chong to id this White-Winged Tern. He explained that all you need to look out for is the "headphones"

A common bird at this rice field, a Water Cock.

A Yellow-bellied Prinia singing in the morning sun.

A common Paddyfield Pipit living to its name sake.

A recent post by Dave Bakewell on pipits in his blog has got eveyone excited. So i decided to post more pictures of the pipits here:

I believe these are Paddyfield Pipits. 

This White-breasted Waterhen can also be found here.

This is a Zitting Cisticola - a common bird at rice fields.

According to Yang Chong, the cotton like thing in this Z. Cisticola's beak was actually a display for attracting females ! 

Yang Chong pointed to Mr Rafi to look for his lifer amongst this group of swallows...after searching he found his Sand Martin ! (second bird from the left, showing a brown breast band)

A closer look at the Sand Martin

Another Sand Martin? (or a juv Barn Swallow?).

Before the sun sets in this rice field, we managed to see a few more birds such as lesser adjutant, stonechat, purple swamphen, purple herons etc. This place is certaintly worth to be considered the next IBA.