Saturday, October 16, 2010

Quick walk at Petai Trail

This weekend I was back in MacRitchie again but took a much faster pace than normal as I had to meet my friend soon.

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Some climber from the family Connaraceae, probably Agelaea borneensis. It was a pity that the flowers had just died out.

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A racket-tailed drongo was perched a few metres on a low lying branch, and it stayed there even when two people passed directly under it, both bird and humans oblivious to each other.

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The only flower which I managed to find is this Clerodendrum deflexum, a small shrub.

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Finally a Dipeterocarp which seemed rather common there, Hopea mengarawan.

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This could have been the shot of the day for me, if not for the silly compact camera that can’t focus manually. A slender squirrel chewing on what looked like an acorn fruit. Perhaps its time to buy an SLR…

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A cluster of fruit belonging to an unknown plant.

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The same plant which I saw last week. More of the fruits are turning black, though they do not appear to be completely riped.

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Some climbers use hooks to climb. But for this common climber, Indorouchera griffithiana, the hooks thicken upon hooking on another or the even on itself.

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