Blue-bellied litter skink (Sphenomorphus cyanolaemus)
Crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)
The Asokam trees (Saraca asoca), planted near the entrance of the RDC were teeming with sunbirds and spidercatchers, which made our resolve even more fervent we research plants attractive to wildlife to grow in our garden.
Female Diard's trogon (Harpactes diardii)
After the previous night's adventure, we chose to walk the complete Pitta trail and had two sightings of Diard's Trogons in small groups consisting of a couple females and a spectacular male with blue, maroon daubed head and striking pink collar. We stopped to take a drink at a bench placed on the trail from which we watched a White-bellied woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis), systematically hammer out ants and insects from a dead tree.
We visited the 65m tall Sepilok Giant and passed on greetings from the Epping Forest Ents.
We took a slow amble along the Belian trail, trying to spot the many green-feathered birds shown on the information boards that punctuated the trail, but our twitching knowledge and optics were not up to the task. The Belian (Eusideroxylon zwageri), or Borneo Ironwood is very slow growing and the 20m - 50m trees are many hundreds of years old (the 50m trees are thought to be near on 1000 years old). The population is becoming irrevocably depleted as it is unable to regenerate due to over-exploitation and illegal logging.
Red-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonotus cyaninventris)
Frilly Forest Gecko (Cosymbotus craspedotus) on a red sealing wax palm (Cyrtostachys renda).
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