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At Wang Kelian, where I had photographed hundreds of Red-rumped Swallows last March, there were some resident Striated (or Rufous-bellied) Swallows mixed in with hundreds of migratory Barn Swallows today.
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They're pretty large!
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And there's not very much striation going on on the underparts.
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In flight, the fresh outer tail streamers are distinctively club-ended and straight, unlike Red-rumped.
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The underpart colour is quite striking!
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Near the swallows Choo Eng spotted a huge spider in the paddyfields. It was worth a closer look! See the blackish dot in the paddy to my left.
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Told you it was big!
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See the 'normal-sized' spider on the right. We couldn't work out if this was one of her offspring or her husband!
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We weren't sure if this was a water-spider (unlikely with all that 'fur'?) or whether it's a land species that has been marooned by the flooding from all the rain. Can anyone help?
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One last picture from Timah Tasoh lake. There were no Racket-tailed Treepies in sight, but this male Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker was some consolation.
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