SBWR 19Aug06

From KH

I was at Sungei Buloh to catch the first migrant waders with JS, Soo Yen and his colleague. JS is our official guide today! :) Managed to see common redshanks, common greenshanks, common sandpipers, Pacific golden plovers and lesser sand plovers. The whimbrels have not come yet. Also, no barn swallow yet. Yamane has told us that the barn swallows are preparing to migrate but will be Sep before they arrive in Singapore.

The other birds seen were the residents like pied fantails, magpie robins, ashy tailorbirds, yellow bitterns, purple/grey/striated herons. The more interesting bird was a copper-throated sunbird that JS spotted high on a bare tree at Sungei Buloh Besar; as well as the mixed flock of milky and painted storks which were free-ranging birds from the zoo.

Also interesting was an Estuarine Crocodile basking at the bank of the same river.

At 10 am, JS went to report at the entrance for guiding duty. Soon a customer arrived and JS gladly showed him the trail on the left. While the rest of us took the one on the right. We stopped at a spot overlooking the straits of Johor and saw many grey herons and little terns doing their aerial display.

The next day, Con was at SBWR and basically we saw about the same species.

01. Striated heron
02. Grey heron
03. Purple heron
04. Little egret
05. Cattle egret
06. Yellow bittern
07. Painted stork
08. Milky stork
09. Common redshank
10. Common greenshank
11. Common sandpiper
12. Pacific golden plover
13. Lesser sand plover
14. Little tern
15. Collared kingfisher
16. Spotted dove
17. Zebra dove
18. Pink-necked green pigeon
19. Asian koel (heard)
20. White-breasted waterhen
21. Black-naped oriole
22. Pied fantail
23. Oriental magpie robin
24. Asian glossy starling
25. Common myna
26. Javan myna
27. Pacific swallow
28. Yellow-vented bulbul
29. Ashy tailorbird
30. Striped tit-babbler
31. Olive-backed sunbird
32. Plain-throated sunbird
33. Copper-throated sunbird