110316 Venus Drive [day]

Venus Drive during the late afternoon/early evening is an aural experience. It was also after the rain and the frogs were calling away. Also heard quite a few birds, a couple which alerted me to their presence. Creatures I saw but did not manage to get photos of included a salticid (Telamonia sp.), a grasshopper, a lynx spider, some squirrels (plantain I think, from the stripe down the side and bushy tail) and a couple of long tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis).


Crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja). There was an insect in its mouth, a leg can just barely be seen. Perhaps feeding young? It was also chirping away, showing that this bird at least talked with its mouth full.


A familiar cock crow that ended rather abruptly followed by rustling branches alerted me to this male jungle fowl (Gallus gallus). While I had a hard time getting a clear view of it, it seemed totally unable to see me and kept getting startled by the camera flash which bewildered it. It finally had enough and flew off.


I guess this is how Opilionids spend their day. This Podoctid was curled up in a bare patch on a tree trunk, surrounded by what looked like termite trails. It was so groggy that it barely responded when poked repeatedly by a leaf (checking if it was dead). It finally decided to wake up but all it did was simply move a little to the side.


On the same tree as the harvestman was this lichen huntsman (Pandercetes sp.).


Carabid?


Some of the plants had quite a few of these beetles (Chrysomelidae?).


These two were going at it. From the fat hind legs, Galerucinae (leaf flea beetle)?


Once again this basket mystery organism.


Robber fly? Extreme hump at the thorax.




Quite a few of these dragonflies (Tyriobapta torrida) could be seen on a couple of tree trunks, from knee height to above my head. Top male, bottom female.


Grouse locust (Tetrigidae).


Arboreal millipede. Half curled, trying to protect its head while keeping its grip on the tree trunk?