Seletar Dam, Khatib Bongsu 09Oct24

From KH

At Seletar Dam, only migrants were 4 Common Sandpipers and 5 Little Egrets.

Resident Collared Kingfisher posed for photo.

Moving on to Khatib Bongsu, got another 2 Common Sandpipers.

Resident White-throated Kingfisher caught a fish.

The only other migrants were 2 Grey Wagtails in a canal catching flies.

Oysters in the canal.

Back at Seletar Dam, left 1 Common Sandpiper and 1 Little Egret.

Seletar Dam, Hampstead Wetland 08Oct24

From KH

Low tide at Seletar Dam, but the only waders were 1 Eurasian Whimbrel and 2 Common Sandpipers. Here's the faraway whimbrel.

Jumping mullets!

Stork-billed Kingfisher couple in a tree.

Scaly-breasted Munia eating Digitaria grass seed.

Next, Hampstead Wetland.

Lineated Barbet nesting in tree hole.

Straw-headed Bulbul in a tree.

Seletar Dam 07Oct24

From KH

Another quick check at Seletar Dam in the evening revealed 0 wader! The only migrants around were 1 Little Egret and 1 Barn Swallow.

Nonetheless, the Grey Herons were enjoying their dinner.

House Crows too.

Seletar Dam, Sengkang Riverside Park 07Oct24

From KH

A quick check at Seletar Dam in the morning revealed only 1 wader, a Common Sandpiper. The only other migrants were 20 Little Egrets.

Next, Sengkang Riverside Park. The only migrants were 3 very vocal Asian Brown Flycatchers.

Batam pelagic 05Oct24

From KH

Danny, JS and I went on a pelagic trip at Batam again. This time with James Hogg.

Setting off from Harbour Front, in Singapore waters, we logged 2 Bridled Terns, 2 Great Crested Terns, 5 Little Terns and 4 Swinhoe's Storm-Petrels. Good start for pelagic.

In Indonesian waters off Batam, we got a good haul of 249 Swinhoe's Storm-Petrels, as well as 1 Aleutian Tern, 2 Gull-billed Terns, 2 Great Crested Terns, 4 Little Terns and 30 Bridled Terns.

Back in Singapore waters, 2 Aleutian Terns, 2 Great Crested Terns and 20 Little Terns.

Mt Faber 28Sep24

From KH

Danny and I went to Mount Faber for any early migrant raptors. Just 3 OHBs and 3 accipitrine hawks.

1 of 3 Oriental Honey-Buzzards.

Resident raptors included this pale Changeable Hawk-Eagle.

and this juvenile Brahminy Kite.

A couple of spiders to round it up: Jade Jumping Spider and wall jumping spider.

Kranji Marsh 21Sep24

From KH

Danny and I went to Kranji Marsh today to watch parakeet magic show:

1) One moment, top 3 Red-breasted Parakeets, lower 2 Long-tailed Parakeets.
2) Next moment, two of the parakeets have swapped places!

Juvenile Black-naped Oriole, bill still black.