Exploring Kampung Jergoh, Lanchang

My great outdoor adventures continued with a trip down to a road less traveled. This time i have decided to explore the unknown or rather a new place named "Kampung Jergoh" which is located quite near to Bukit Rengit. Going there was a breeze as the road is well maintained and tared all the way. Zipping through several villages you will see lots of plantations along the way i.e. rubber trees and oil palms and only a few patches of jungle in between them. Despite the location being a "kampung" area you could stop near a bridge before Kampung Jergoh and watch the traffic in the sky. You can see birds crisscrossing and i believe the birds were probably using this area as one of their routes to another location. However i did not stayed until sunset to record whether the same birds have used back this same route to roost.

Here is one the few patches of jungle seen from the road side. From here i could see the brown-backed needle tail, wreath hornbills, blue-rumped parrots, asian glossy starlings, blue-crowned hanging parrots flying by.

Before this signage there is a bridge where i flushed a bird which size resembles a turkey. It perched quite low inside one of the bushes and i believe it could be a barred eagle owl. The road after this signage will actually lead you to someone's home and since there were no barriers on the road i actually drove straight into his compound. Luckily there were no kenduri at that time otherwise i would be like gate-crashing a party.

Birding was done basically from the road side but i found this trail along the way. There are not many birds inside this trail - probably due to the over night shower which drenched much of this area. One of the many advice from the old folks when exploring a trail or jungle as i could remember until today was not to take home or remove any objects which are never meant to be in a place - for example a nice looking round pebble inside a tree hole or under a tree, a nice looking insect which suddenly appear on the trail or stepping on tree shoots or ant mounts which grow under a tree etc. These were some of the "pantang larang" one need to observe or be aware of. The best thing to do is to follow this well known quote: "Don't Take or Leave Anything Behind Except Your Footprints" !

Here are some of the birds seen at this location. Photo were more for id purposes rather than for its aesthetic values.

Black-Winged Flycatcher Shrike

Brown-Backed Needletail

This was one of a few winter visitors seen here although some field guides also indicated that some of them could be common residents as well.

Spectacle Spiderhunter

Tiger Shrike

This fella was certainly a winter visitor. It was very skittish - probably just arrived after a long haul.

Arctic or Eastern Crowned?

Another winter visitors at this place and i have recorded it as an Arctic Warbler.

Little Green Pigeon - Female

Javan Myna

Orange-Backed Woodpecker - Female

Maroon Woodpecker

Spectacle Bulbul

Overall this place could spring a few lifers or two if you could reach there earlier than me. Just put a note in your travel log that this could be some of the new birding places which you might just want to explore in the near future.