Rifle Range, Gardens by the Bay, Pulau Punggol 16Feb13

From KH

Following reports of White-bellied Woodpecker at Rifle Range and Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike at Jelutong, Danny and I made a morning trip from Rifle Range to Jelutong Tower. We did not see these star birds and there were not a single swiftlet at the tower! Nevertheless, it was nice to see some forest birds.

Danny went back to pick up JS, while I made by way to Satay by the Bay to nail the female Daurian Redstart right at the carpark!

After lunch at Punggol, we headed to Pulau Punggol, but soon the sky opened and it was time to call it a day.

Sime Forest
1. Changeable Hawk Eagle 2 dark morph
2. Pink-necked Green Pigeon >5
3. Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot 1
4. Blue-rumped Parrot 3
5. Long-tailed Parakeet >10
6. Dollarbird 3
7. Banded Bay Cuckoo 1 heard
8. Asian Drongo Cuckoo 1 heard
9. White-throated Kingfisher 1
10. Collared Kingfisher 1
11. Red-crowned Barbet 1 seen, 2 heard
12. Banded Woodpecker 1
13. Laced Woodpecker 1
14. Black-naped Oriole 1
15. Crow-billed Drongo 2
16. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 2
17. House Crow 4
18. Olive-winged Bulbul 3
19. Cream-vented Bulbul 1
20. Red-eyed Bulbul 2
21. Barn Swallow 1
22. Dark-necked Tailorbird 1 heard
23. Striped Tit Babbler 3 heard
24. Short-tailed Babbler 2 heard
25. Asian Fairy Bluebird 1 heard
26. Asian Glossy Starling >30
27. Common Hill Myna 3
28. Javan Myna >5
29. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
30. leafbird sp. 1 (Greater or Lesser)
31. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker >3 (including 1 female feeding 1 chick)
32. Purple-throated Sunbird >3
33. Crimson Sunbird 2

Satay by the Bay
1. Daurin Redstart 1 female
2. Oriental Magpie Robin 1 male

Pulau Punggol
1. Little Grebe 1 pair
2. egret sp. 1
3. Oriental Honey Buzzard 2
4. Brahminy Kite 2
5. White-bellied Sea Eagle 3 (2 adults, 1 immature)
6. Grey-headed Fish Eagle 1 adult
7. Chinese Goshawk 1 male
8. Changeable Hawk Eagle 1 pale morph
9. Peregrine Falcon 1 immature
10. Common Sandpiper 2
11. Spotted Dove >5
12. Zebra Dove >10
13. Lesser Coucal 1 heard
14. swiftlet spp.
15. White-throated Kingfisher 1
16. Sunda Woodpecker 1 heard
17. Black-naped Oriole >2
18. Sooty-headed Bulbul 1
19. Yellow-vented Bulbul >5
20. Barn Swallow >5
21. Pacific Swallow 1
22. Yellow-bellied Prinia 1 heard
23. Zitting Cisticola >2 heard
24. Common Tailorbird 1 heard
25. Asian Glossy Starling >10
26. Javan Myna >10
27. Olive-backed Sunbird 1 male
27. Baya Weaver >5
28. Scaly-breasted Munia >5
29. Black-headed Munia 3
30. Yellow Wagtail >10
31. Paddyfield Pipit >5
32. waxbill sp. >8 (Common or Black-rumped)