Bird Watch !

       Animals has been known to seek refuge and even making plants or places with bushes and trees as their home. As long as they find the place safe and suitable to them..Orchid garden also has been known to be a place for certain animals such as birds to nest..I've waited long for this to happen, and finally I got it...


      Haiwan sememangnya suka mencari perlindungan atau menjadikan tempat-tempat yang mempunyai tumbuhan dan pokok sebagai tempat tinggal..Selagi mana ia didapati sesuai dan selamat.. Tidak terkecualilah kawasan kebun orkid saya ni...Saya memang menunggu-nunggu nak buat pos ini..akhirnya dapat juga..

         One day while doing a routine check-up on my orchids, I found a bird nest with couple of eggs..I was totally not aware when did the birds built it..The nest was built inside my unused orchid pot..FYI this was a substitute picture, cause mine accidentally got deleted..but anyway this was the real eggs of this bird species..Wonder what species was this?

       Satu hari sedang jengok-jengok pokok orkid, terjumpa pulak sarang burung.. siap dah ada telur dah..tak perasan bila masa dia buat sarang. Ni gambar ganti..gambar saya yang ori dah terdelete..tapi memang gambar telur spesis burung ni yang sebenar..Sarangnya dibuat di dalam pasu lama yang saya tak sempat nak ubah..Tau spesis burung apa ni?

         
        On the day that I was going to Bangkok, I did take a peek..there were already two hatchlings inside..maybe just one or two days old..  

        Hari yang nak ke berangkat ke Bangkok tempoh hari , saja pi check..dah menetas dah..sempat snap gambar. Ni rasanya baru 1, 2 hari..masih merah lagi..

        
Back from Bangkok, Thailand..just 4 days..the hatchlings already showing a tremendous growth..they  grew so fast..!

       Balik Dari Bangkok, Thailand, tengok-tengok dah tumbuh bulu dah..baru 4 hari...cepat sungguh..

4 days later, the their feathers started getting thicker and thicker..

4 hari selepas tu..Bulu-bulu dah mula kembang dan makin tebal..

          Still at the 3/4 days interval..they were ready to leave the nest..How very fast birds grew..! This was the last picture that I've taken..cause next day the nest was empty..

          Pun dalam jangka masa 3/4 hari bulu dah penuh..dah sedia untuk terbang..Cepatnya burung membesar..! Ni lah gambar terakir yang saya snap..esok tu dah tak ada..

 Leaving this nest to me for momento..

Tinggallah sarang kosong buat kenang-kenangan..

        This is the species..Yellow Vented Bulbul, one of the common birds of Malaysia..The scientific name is Pycnonotus goiavier. A few years back the same species had built their nest on my Ceologyne rochussenii..not one but thrice on the same plant..

       I feel glad that the bird has chosen to nest in an orchid pot underneath my orchid shade, this is not something that you can see very often..


        Inilah spesis burung yang empunya sarang tu..Di sini kita panggil Merbah Kapur..agaknya sebab bahagian pipi dan kepalanya berwarna keabu-abuan..Burung ni banyak terdapat di Malaysia.. Nama sainsnya ialah Pycnonotus goiavier. Nama Inggeris Yelow Vented Bulbul.. Beberapa tahun dulu burung merbah ni dah pernah buat sarang dekat pokok orkid saya juga, Coelogyne rochussenii..bukan sekali tetapi 3 kali di pokok yang sama..

          Pada masa yang sama saya berasa seronok juga sebab rumah orkid saya dijadikan tempat tinggal oleh burung ni..bukan sesuatu yang selalu kita dapat lihat selalu...

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. 

Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, 

the ocean when it becomes violent.  

- Sharon Tate

FOMOS Monthly Orchid Show 2012

Update on the first orchid show for the year 2012 organized by our society..

Organizer         : FOMOS ( Federation Of Malaya Orchid Society)
Venue               : Formal Garden, Penang Botanical Garden.
Date                 : 12th February 2012
Day                  : Sunday
Time                 : 12.00pm - 4.00 pm

 Ascocenda Sagarik Gold x Meda Arnold

 Dendrobium hybrid                           Cattleya dolosa

 Dendrobium Classic Gem

Bc. Maikai  x  Rlc. Haadyai Delight) 

 Rlc. Yen Corona

 Lc. Netrasiri Doll

 Potinara Little Toshie 'Yellow Rose'

 Potinara Thiti

Cattleya Hawaiian Wedding Song 'Orchid Center'

 Ionopsis utricularoides

 Dendrobium Gatton Sunray

 Dendrobium smilliae

 Paphiopedilum exul

 Oncidium La Pestora Gold

 Bc. Little Mermaid

 

                       Enanthleya Joseph Roman                   Ascocenda hybrid

                                'Roman Holiday'                        

 Cattleya nobilior var Amaliae

 Dendrobium Candy Stripe

 Dendrobium miniature type              Dendrobium Enobi Purple

 Bulbophyllum arfakianum                Bulbophyllum vinaceum

 Ascocenda Sagarik Gold

 Vanda hybrid

 Den. Frosty Dawn x Suzukii                 Den. Frosty Dawn

Dendrobium Kedah Frosty

 Vanda hybrid

 Best Plant of the Show..

Ascocenda Sagarik Gold

 Second place 

Dendrobium Burana Pearl 'Y2K'

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? 

Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, 

and in that freedom bold. 

- William Wordsworth
 

Jalan-Jalan Cari Orkid : Bangkok, Thailand..Part 8

          This is the final part of my 'orchid adventures' in Thailand..During my last day in Bangkok, me and my three friends managed to visit just another garden centre..I didn't know what was the name of the place..

          Ini adalah bahagian terakhir kisah 'pengembaraan mencari orkid' saya. Hari terakhir di Bangkok..penerbangan pada pukul 2 petang, tapi pagi tu sempat lagi merayau cari orkid di tepat lain lagi..

          Early morning in Bangkok..while walking we've asked one taxi driver whether he knew any orchid sites around, he said that there was a garden centre 45 minutes from where we are..so we try our luck..

          Waktu pagi di Bangkok..semasa berjalan cari sarapan, jumpa seorang pemandu teksi, saja tanya kalau ada tempat jual orkid berdekatan..Dia kata ada satu pusat tanaman hiasan dalam lingkungan 45 minit dari sini..jadi kami cubalah nasib..

          On the right you see a garden centre located beside the main road..the taxi driver wanted to wait for us.. time is running out! so we just scramble around looking for orchid store..we have to be back at the hotel around 11 o'clock..

          Sebelah kanan tu lah pusat jualan tanaman hiasan..Pemandu teksi tu sanggup nak tunggu kami..lepas tu terus buat tinjauan la..kalut lah sikit sebab masa dah suntuk !, kami kena ada di hotel semula jam 11 pagi..

        This was one of the orchid store that we've found..not many orchids store here..Unfortunately nothing special..just the ordinary ones..

        Ni lah salah satu gerai orkid yang sempat dilihat..tak banyak kedai pun.. Tak ada satu pun orkid yang 'special'..Masuk angin keluar asap la..tak apa tu semua pengalaman...

        The last look of the Bangkok city along the way to the airport..Given the opportunity, surely I will come again next time..there were so many more things to experience..Lots of other 'orchids places' that hopefully, I will get the chance to visit..

        I think orchid is one of the reason that I got the opportunity to visit foreign land..otherwise it might be a little bit later..

        Disebabkan meminati orkid inilah sedikit sebanyak telah menjadi faktor saya menjelajah ke bumi asing, kalau tidak mungkin belum rasanya..
  
       Selamat tinggal Bangkok!. Harap-harap dapat peluang lagi ke sini..Banyak perkara yang belum sempat dilihat..banyak lagi 'tempat orkid' yang mana pada suatu hari nanti harapnya, akan berpeluang dilawati..

Sampai jumpa lagi..

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, 

when rank and running to seed.  

- Desiderius Erasmus

Jalan-Jalan Cari Orkid : Bangkok, Thailand..Part 7

          Finally we arrived in Bangkok, there we go straight to Siam Orchid Centre, Here lots of orchids from all over Thailand were gathered in one place..In this place you can see many different species of orchids were sold and the price was also cheap..

          Akhirnya kami selamat tiba di Bandaraya Bangkok..Di sana kami terus ke Siam Orchid Centre..Di sini terdapat berbagai jenis orkid yang diambil dari seluruh Thailand untuk dijual di sini. Jadi ada banyaklah spesis orkid yang boleh dipilih..harga pun murah..

This place was not that big..

Tempat ni taklah besar mana pun..

  

Colourfuly displayed orchids in one of the stall..

Bunches of orchid, mainly Cattleya and dendrobium inside a box..

Di sini banyak terdapat orkid jenis Cattleya dan Dendrobium tapi nak cari yang 'special' susah..

A group of Phalaenopsis on a bench..inside one shop..

A nice display of orchids inside a basket..

Di Malaysia susah jumpa orang jual orkid buat display macam ni..

 

Other than orchids there were other plants such as these bromeliads..

Selain orkid, banyak juga jenis pokok hiasan lain seperti bromeliad ni..

  

 ..and also gardening products were abundant..

          Though it seemed that there was a lot of orchids here..very few that managed to catch my attention. I only bought three plants..We were also wanted to go to the famous Chattuchak Market just across the road, unfortunately they were closed that day..no luck this time..otherwise there will be more variety of orchids that we can find..

           Thats the end of our visit here..we have to go to hotel to relax after almost a day travelling and shopping for orchids..

to be continued ..

           Walaupun nampak macam orkid di sini banyak, tapi hanya ada beberapa pokok saja yang menarik minat saya. Sebab yang ada di sini semua biasa saja.. Dapat la dalam tiga pokok saja untuk koleksi..Hajatnya jugak nak pi Pasar Besar Chattuchak, seberang jalan sikit saja, tapi tutup pulak hari tu...kalau tidak, di situ orkid lagi meriah..tak ada rezeki la kali ni..

            Sampai di sini lawatan kami..lepas ni nak pergi hotel, rehat.. setelah seharian dalam perjalanan dan membelek orkid..

bersambung...

Politeness is the flower of humanity. 

- Joseph Joubert