Thursday, July 21, 2011

Air Itam Dam 110702

I bought my boy a new bicycle recently. So my wife and i decided to bring him to try and cycle around Air Itam Dam. Here are some shots taken during the family excercise outing...
 I saw this couple looking down at the river with a container. I suspect they are poaching the fishes in this river. Some of the incidence where the human misuse the permission given to enter the area. Instead of having a good exercise, they stole the natural resources! What a shame! After they saw me and my family, they move out from the area...
 The guy who is also a smoker throw this cigarette butt, which can cause fire in the forest...Stupid!

 After making a big circle, we finally arrived back at the main dam. We saw this huge fish which i thought to be a 'Pacu'.
 We also saw some painted terrapin, Callagur borneoensis and river terrapin, Batagur affinis.

A shot with the nice Georgetown as background but the haze is so bad...

At the main parking lot, i saw a lot of Grey-rumped Treeswift perched on the tree above the hut. So i decided to take a few shot using my digiscope...

This is the female, notice the lack of rufous ear covert...

here is the male
  I haven't seen them for quite a long time, and now they are back. Maybe its their breeding season. I notice that they are only here at the main parking lot, perched on the same tree only during certain time of the year...must make note of this...

That's all. Thanks a lot.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

me and my friends ponteng sekolah and that very spot which you pointed out is our favourite haunt
we catch fishes normally via ipoh poison
we are from hamid khan
come and catch us if you can..we are there most fri afternoons