Changi, Pulau Punggol, SBWR 21Nov09

From Con

Here are the two harriers we saw yesterday, I didn't get many pixels and they will look rather brownish in the early morning sunlight. Juvenile EMH

and subadult male EMH.

Just for fun, I notice in my image of the juv Brahminy Kite that it was seen carrying a big insect in one photo and eating it while flying in the other photo.

Here's the two CHE and the female Pin-tailed Whydah:
http://www.pbase.com/con_foley/image/119605926
http://www.pbase.com/con_foley/image/119605940
http://www.pbase.com/con_foley/image/119605954
http://www.pbase.com/con_foley/image/119605992

From Danny

Bird list at CC
1. EMH -2 (JUVENILE and Subadult Male)
2. Black Baza - 20
3. P. Falcon -1
4. Brahminy Kite - 3
5. WBSE - 4
6. CHE - 2
7. BSK - > 4
8. Cisticola - many
9. Pipit - many
10. Whydah - 3 male and 1 female
11. Spotted Doves
12. Red Collared Doves
13. House Crows
14. Large-billed Crows
15. YV Bulbul - rare
16. Common sandpipers
17. Barn swallows
18. Pacific swallows
19. Purple Herons
20. White Throated KF
21. WB Water hens
22. Lesser Coucals
23. Scaly-breasted Munia
24. Black-headed Munia
25. White-headed Munia
26. Asian Glossy Starlings
27. warbler sp - many heard but not seen
28. Yellow bellied Prinia

After Lunch, managed to get into P. Punggol but forested area has shrunk and clearing in progress
1. Black Baza - 2
2. Brahminy Kite - 1
3. CHE - dark morph
4. Hodgson's Hawk-cuckoo - 1
5. Collared Kingfisher
6. Gerygone
7. BN Oriole
But no sign of any Booted Eagle.

Went to SBWR on Sunday late afternoon. Hide 1C flooded. Other than 1 Milky Stork, the usual shanks and sandpipers around but no sign of BB Sandpiper or RN Stints. At Hide 2.1 there were at least 50 LSP but no GSP. Interesting was this relatively smaller Whimbrel with very worn plumages, notice the 3 worn primary shafts, likely an adult male.