Tuas 18Oct13

From GC

23 Chinese Sparrowhawks were seen on migration this morning.

There was a flock of 10 'following' a bunch of swifts. Indeed, they looks like swifts to the naked eye as they were flying higher than the swifts, making them appear the same size!. Through binoculars, then the difference was noted.

Another flock of 10 was spotted 'by chance' when checking out the resident juvenile Brahminy Kite. They were high up, specks to the naked eye.

Thousands of Chinese Sparrowhawks move through Malaysia, but few are recorded on migration in Singapore. Maybe they fly so high, nobody notices them passing through Singapore into Indonesia. More observations would be needed to confirm this.

There were also 7 Jap Sparrowhawks and 1 Osprey.

For the residents, there was an adult WBSE which caught a huge fish, a juv WBSE, 1 Black-winged Kite (ad) and 2 ad + 2 juv Brahminy Kites.