Something moved very fast in front of me

I have come back to my hiking trail after a short break to Penang Butterfly Farm. As a working man, I am only able to hike on every weekend, thus I have to skip and miss my weekend lover if there is any schedule change. By the way, there is not much to say on the changes on my trekking trail after a week of absence since I am living in a tropical country, yet there are disturbances in my mind. The disturbances started to accumulate after a few “coffee shop gossips” during lunch time which focused on the experience on the close encounter of the third kind at the trekking trail.

Of course, there are very many stories of this type which took place anywhere, yes anywhere especially at Gunung Jerai, or Mount Jerai. And of course, all these stories are more scary than finding trees trying to talk to me.

And today, I saw something that I have not seen before. I got to know something was behind the leaves up in front of me through the fast moving image. It ought to be a little one.

I tried with my limited courage to check it out. No, it must not be a monkey that always keeps itself busy jumping from one tree to another, it should not stop moving by now.

Before I gave up and moved away rapidly, the little image appeared to move again. I followed and looked carefully, I knew it was a squirrel by this time. This was the first time I managed to find squirrel at this hiking trail.

Wasted no time I pointed-and-shot. Before my camera was able to response for another one, it disappeared and no more visible again.

This is the only picture I can put up in my post. It won't be easy for you to detect the squirrel otherwise I must admit that I am really old.

I have not seen any black squirrel. This was a brown squirrel that I use to see.

Bee-sy, outside Penang Butterfly Farm

I got the series of images on today post solely by luck. When we were ready to make our move for next stop, I happened to see the beauty of full bloom outside Butterfly Farm which appealed to me for some snap shoots.

To my excitement, a bee was flying from one flower to another busy at collecting honey. I missed the initial few but learnt from experience to follow the bee to where it went, got my camera half press on the button, waited till it retreated from the interior, then these are my pictures, the pictures that I have dreamed for but never happened to have earlier.

It was very interesting to witness the bee “squeezed” its big body into the flowers. It moved in very fast and smoothly, but to me, it simply looked like it was squeezing its body fat in order to get inside.

This bee worked at the rate that I could not believe if compare to another smaller species. It took less than 3 seconds to enter and retreat, I do not know should it be its body size for which the suction power was stronger for the same amount of honey, whereas the smaller species seemed to have sunk inside for a while that I needed to snap through the “funnel” and just hoping the exposure was good enough for a presentable image.

Butterflies do need to eat

We know our eating habits, but it is much more interesting to know the way butterflies take their meal.

The first picture shows how satisfied the butterfly was with its sweet meal. It looked quite relaxing and enjoying in front of my camera.

The second preferred to have it on the reverse way, thus keeping its close watch towards the open space, kind of precaution to the surroundings and uneasiness on my presence.

I had eye contact with this little creature and said a friendly hello, but this failed to comfort it. Anyhow, it is very funny to look through its eyes for its inner world.

The last two butterflies believed in the principle that eating come first thus my presence was hidden behind their back. They might not care as well.

Eye Contact

We have learnt that one of the communication method is through eye contact and we always enhance the feeling of love through seeing the eyes of the other side. This happens exactly especially between us and our pet dogs or other kinds.

This is what I was thinking when I was at Butterfly Farm. With their eyes staring at me, I felt like they were my pets.

I tried to record these down without a tripod but holding my breath for a second and using a 2 seconds timer to avoid jerk while pressing down the button. It did help though not totally perfect.

The insects seem to take the visitors like us as their family members. They showed their pose very steadily though there were repeated NG from me.

How do you feel looking at their eyes?

The next picture belongs to a stick insect. The feeling is totally different simply because I did not know where were its eyes at first glance.

Then I have my conclusion (the working nature always trains me to look for conclusion at the end of the discussion), we must not avoid the eye contact during talking to someone, otherwise it won't help much to build a good rapport.

Adult Matter, Penang Butterfly Farm

I brought my Singaporean friends and relatives to Penang Butterfly Farm this Saturday. This turned up to be two sides of story. I missed my weekend lover, my jungle trek this round, but I gained extra more from the visit to the Butterfly Farm.

I intend not to talk too much on this post because all the pictures relate to the adult matter. How do you expect from me to describe words by words on all the actions, though it involves only butterflies, the very innocent butterflies that have been placed in the Internet unwillingly by the paparazzi?

Note: Penang Butterfly Farm is located at Teluk Bahang. Pantai Kerachut is in the neighbourhood.