Common birds in greener Kuching

White-breasted Waterhen

Pink-necked Pigeon

 On this trip many garden birds came to visit the garden with a few building homes. The Chestnut Munia, White-breasted Waterhen and the Pink-necked Pigeons are already claiming the status of permanent resident of the garden.  The environment must have been very conducive lately to have influenced them to make the garden a place called home.  On the sidelines, the daily visits of the White-breasted Woodswallow, Yellow-vented Bulbul, Brown-throated Sunbird, Peaceful Dove  and the Long-tailed Shrike are a constant reminder that the common garden birds of Kuching are here to stay.  Sighting these garden birds makes gardening in urban Kuching a delight and purposeful or meaningful.  Residential areas will become more appealing places to live as they help restore the natural environment for birds.  In this manner, a little step of creating home gardens come a long way towards building a greener and lively city jungle environments.

Long-tailed Shrike

Yellow-vented Bulbul

Brown-throated Sunbird

Peaceful Dove

Chestnut Munia

View of the Kambatik garden, Jan'17

View of the Kambatik garden, Jan'17

Making our life buzzing

A hibiscus hybrid blooming at the front garden

 Learning nature studies is so neat and real these days with google and the internet.  I just type 'parts of the hibiscus flower' and in seconds I'm brought back to my early school days of the 60's when we had to draw and name the parts of a hibiscus flower.  Now with libraries of images learning is so much fun. This allows for fast track self-learning too. Why wasn't the internet created in the 60's? Learning would have been much fun then.  But for us who are still alive learning through the internet is the best thing that money can buy and the best thing to keep our remaining life buzzing.....

Source: Just google 'parts of a hibiscus flower'

Source: Just google 'parts of a hibiscus flower'

The Red Hisbiscus or 'Bunga Raya' in Malay - the national flower of Malaysia
View from the kitchen.