三月双溪布洛华语导游Madarin guide walk@SBWR,March(XXVIII)

It is a sunny Sunday morning and around 27 participants join our monthly Mandarin guided walk @ SBWR this time.
It is low tide when we went to the main bridge to spot those migratory birds. As the water level is low, some egrets are foraging on the riverbed and a grey heron is standing on the tree. We are lucky as a eagle is circling on the sky and later we spotted a eagle eating some prey on a bald tree.
No surprising during the trip as crocodiles and otters not showing up.
又是一个阳光明媚的星期天，大约有27位朋友参加了我们的红树林探幽活动。
我们先在竹子河（sugei buloh）的河床上观察到候鸟包括白鹭和其他滨鸟。一只海雕在空中盘旋，寻找早餐。往年湾鳄出现热点已经有半年多没有鳄鱼露脸了。
 两只水獭在折纸活动结束后前往访客中心的水池旁午休片刻，而后又回去捕鱼了。
不过红树林里常见的螃蟹，巨蜥，弹涂鱼等都一一登场了。

Look, crabs there

White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)白腹海雕

Breakfast

egrets and heron

malayan water monitor lizard (varanus salvator) 泽巨蜥

打哈欠

giant mudskipper (periophthalmodon schlosseri) 弹涂鱼

Bugs

 Origami session

Merry christmas圣诞快乐

这株灌木名叫老鼠勒(Acanthus spp.)，洋文又叫Sea Holly海冬青，因为锯齿状的叶片很像圣诞节的装饰Christmas holly冬青。老鼠勒叶片表面有盐腺，可以排除盐分，因此通常可以在叶面上观察到白色盐粒。
Sea Holly and Christmas holly both have prickly green leaves. Sea holly lives in the mangrove forest and excretes extra salt by the leaves. Some guides encourage visitors to touch the white crystalline layer on the leaves and to lick the finger to feel the salt.

Tanjung Piai trip 丹戎比艾游 (D)

The boardwalk of Tanjung Pias nature park is very nice.

Tanjung Piai trip 丹戎比艾游 (C)

招潮蟹最大的特点是雄性具有大小悬殊极大的螯，大螯不停的挥舞着，用途是恐吓敌手或者求偶。雄性招潮蟹会用大螯打架，落败的可能会丢失大螯。某些招潮蟹的小螯会长大，下次蜕壳时，会从左撇子变成右撇子，或者相反。也有一些招潮蟹会保持原样。至于小螯，主要是用来吃东西的。

招潮蟹是一大类迷你螃蟹，不同种类有不同的颜色和形态，适应不同的生活环境。

colorful Face-banded crab

red crab?

Tanjung Piai trip 丹戎比艾游 (B)

Male fiddler crab has an enlarged claw which makes it quite easy to differentiate it from other tiny crabs. This colorful claw plays an important role in finding girl friend.
It is said that male crab will protect a female before her molting and this time we noticed a male feddler crab push a female into a burrow.

螃蟹拥有极其坚硬的外壳，这一点在吃螃蟹的时候最有体会。不过螃蟹会蜕去旧的外壳，然后长更大，同时也可以修复损坏的腿脚。最重要的是，这是螃蟹传宗接代的关键时刻。雄性螃蟹此刻会守护着配偶。

这次我们看到招潮蟹夫妇在洞穴周围觅食。

Maybe they just keep playing this kind of hide and find... ...

或者雄性招潮蟹通过这种活动间接保护了配偶

Tanjung Piai trip 丹戎比艾游 (A)

非常感谢luan keng组织了这次丹戎比艾一日游的活动，我们都玩得很开心。首先分享一下这里最有灵气的生物：猴子。请留意它们的眼神和表情。

在访客中心生活着两类猴子：眼镜食叶猴和长尾猕猴。前者比较害羞，一直躲得较远；而后者胆大放肆，甚至可以伸手抢游客的背包。

Thank Luan Keng for organizing this wonderful trip to Tanjung Piai.

The most attracting animals today are those monkeys: Dusky leaf monkey and long-tailed macaque. Looking at their eyes and you may know what they are thinking about.

Dusky leaf monkey眼镜食叶猴

The adult dusky leaf monkeys just stay high on the tree and it is really difficult to take a good photo. While the juveniles just play around and sometime come to a lower branch.

The baby dusky leaf monkey has bright yellow/orange furs, however its parents hide it on a high branch.
Long-tailed macaque 長尾獼猴

Can you understand this macaque?

双溪布洛四月免费华语导游相册 The album of free mandarin guide @ SBWR on 18th, April

游览前总体介绍 Introduction before guide walk

用心观察红树林中的动植物 Carefully observe in mangrove forest
这不是豆角，也不是果实，而是红树的胎生苗 Vivipary of Mangrove tree
海茄冬属Avicennia Alba的果实 Fruits of Avicennia Alba

对视（爬树蟹和弹涂鱼） A tree-climing crab and a mudskipper stared at each other

一条石龙子正在热身 Mangrove skink

威猛的巨蜥 Water monitor Lizard

“招摇过街” A water monitor lizard walking across the Borad walk

眼神有鳄鱼的冷酷 水葫芦的花和苹果螺的卵 Hyacinth and eggs of apple snail

褐色的蝴蝶 Common Palmfly (Elymnias hypermnestra agina).

Thank Federick Ho for the identification.

不知名的蓝色蜻蜓 Blue dragonfly

在双溪布洛河低潮时的景观 Low tide view of Sugei buloh river form main bridge

水针鱼和射水鱼 Half beak fish and archer fish

滨鸟 shorebirds

红脚鹬在觅食 A common red shank is feeding

白鹭显眼的白色反衬出了滨鸟的伪装

Camouflage is a key survivor strategy for small shorebirds but not big egrets

展翅的白鹭 Flapping egret

活泼好动的太阳鸟 Sunbird

椋鸟在吃莲雾 A staring is feeding in a rose apple tree

画面中有四只鸟，你能看出来吗？there are four birds in this picture

黄臀鹎 Yellow-vented bulbul