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At present I am retired and spending my time mostly on fishing and photography. I bought my first SLR way back in 1982. It was a Minolta XG1. My last film camera was the Maxxum 9000. When the fantastic Sony Alpha 100 was launched, I changed over to the digital system. My Alpha 580 was acquired followed closely by my Alpha 77.

My main interest in photography is lifestyles, sports, sceneries, nature, birds and macro shots. Lately, I have spend more time on bird and nature shooting. As a regular contributer to some fishing magazines, I shoot quite a lot of photographs of anglers too....hence my photography blog is named 'SHOOT THE HOOKER'.



Having grown up near the confluence of two, the Kangsar and the Perak Rivers, it is not surprising that one of my main interest is fishing. My younger days were spent swimming and fishing.... with a bamboo pole, line and small hooks.Now while fishing, my friends and I do take a lot of photographs of anglers in action. The anglers must be careful so as not to accidentally hook on to a photographer. So I think as a reminder, I would like to name my fishing blog as 'HOOK THE SHOOTER'.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Pied Fantails (Rhipidura javanica)

I saw these pied fantails' nest while out fishing one day. Went back a number of times to photograph their activities. Most of the time I was there in the morning as there were no other people nearby. The parents were rather good house keepers as they regularly check for droppings from the babies. One of them grabbed the dropping from the baby's back as it was been expelled. As many fantail nests were built on tree branches hanging over some ponds or rivers, the dropping was dropped into the water some meters away. I think this is a method of preventing predators from finding the nest.



A parent picking up dropping from
one of the babies and dropping it into
 the water a few meters away.
I think this is to prevent any
 predators from locating the nest.
One of the parents sizing me up.




The babies will open their
 mouths chirping away to
 the parents hoping to be fed.
Another one of the parents.

The babies been fed.
Funny though, this
parent is sitting on its babies
without suffocating them.
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