SBWR, NTL2, Bidadari 05Nov11

From Con

We entered SBWR early looking for the stilt, but no show, so we started walking towards 1C. That’s when we saw a very brown looking kingfisher. I only had my bins, so I left the group and went back to the car to get my camera. Upon return I took this first photo.

It does look rather like a Brown-winged Kingfisher. Then the bird turned and I took another photo.
Oops, just a very wet Stork-billed Kingfisher.

From Danny

Record shot of size comparison between Grey-headed Lapwing with the smaller PGP and the larger Little Egret.

Chestnut-winged Cuckoo at SBWR.

Another record shot of the nape differences between the Whiskered Tern on the left and the White-winged Tern on the right.

The next two are front and back views of the most popular flycatcher (Brown-chested Jungle-flycatcher) at Casperland.

From JS

I found this odd-looking swiftlet in a flock of swiftlets at the sluice gate between Main Hide and Hide 1C. Seeing that the flock of swiftlets (including this leucistic individual) had distinctly forked tail and dark rumped, I spared some time to photograph the swiftlets while Con, Kok Hui and my father went ahead. Unlike the usual notched-tail and white-rumped swiftlets which I am accustomed to, these swiftlets were different, even for the non-leucistic variant.

Leucistic Swiftlet.

Typical Swiftlets.

From KH

Con, Danny, JS and I started off at SBWR before heading to NTL2. JS left before lunch and the rest headed to Bidadari.

Highlights:
1) Grey-headed Lapwing at SBWR
2) Whiskered Terns at Kranji Reservoir
3) Brown-chested Jungle-flycatchers at Bidadari

SBWR:
1) Grey-headed Lapwing 1 immature
2) Red-necked Stint 1
3) Broad-billed Sandpiper 1
4) Stork-billed KF 1 wet individual
5) Oriental Pied Hornbill 1
6) Emerald Dove 1
7) Chestnut-winged Cuckoo 1
8) Black Baza 1
9) Brahminy Kite 1
10) WBSE 1 juv
and storks, the other usual waders, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Arctic Warbler, Common Ioras, tailorbirds, sunbirds, etc.

NTL2:
1) Whiskered Tern >5
2) White-winged Tern >2
3) Little Tern >4
4) Yellow Bittern 1 juv
5) CHE 1 heard
6) WBSE 2 immature
7) BWK 1
8) Yellow Wagtail 2
and the usual Common Sandpiper, egrets (Intermediate, Cattle, Little), swallows, pipits

Bidadari:
1) Emerald Dove 1
2) Indian Cuckoo 2
3) Black Baza 10
4) Sparrowhawk sp. 1
5) Ferruginous Flycatcher 1
6) Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher 2
and Tanimbar Corella, Asian Koels, Dollarbirds, White-throated Kingfisher, Tiger Shrike, the other usual flycatchers (Yellow-rumped, Asian Brown), Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Arctic Warblers, Common Ioras, Oriental White-eyes, tailorbirds, sunbirds, flowerpeckers, etc.

Whiskered Terns at NTL2. Adult non-breeding

and immature.

Orange Mud Crab at SBWR.