Tuas 5-6Oct14

From EL on 5 Oct

0900-1630. Windy throughout generally from SW. Very cloudy with 95-100% cloud cover.

0900-1000: 1 unID accipiter
1000-1100: 1 CSH, 1 Oriental Pratincole, 3 Blue-tailed Bee-eaters
1100-1200: 2 OHB (flying from NW individually). Close to 1200, we saw 2 unID raptors circling quite low - sparrowhawk like, very pale underparts except for narrow dark wing tips, grey uppers
1300-1400: 1 unID raptor

Danny (AM), Han Yong Kwong , Ee Ling

From EL and GC on 6Oct

0900-1700. Total 265 OHB, 6 Jap SH, 1 Chinese SH, 1 Peregrine Falcon, 18 unID accipiter, 4 unID raptor. Light high cloud cover initially, increasing to about 90-95%. Wind from SW 10-15kmh. Haze at lower level, 3hr PSI at 63 at 0900, rising to 136 by 1700. Reduced visibility, can't see Tg Pelepas cranes.

0900-1000 1 Jap SH
1000-1100 2 OHB (1st a male) from NW, 1 Jap SH, 4 unID accipiter (flying thru' together in N-S direction)
1100-1200 2 unID raptor heading SSW together (originally 1 more unID raptor suspected to be RBE but turned out to be pale CHE), 3 PGPlover
1200-1300 1 JSH, 1 CSH, 3 unID accipiter
1300-1400 1 JSH, 1 unID accipter, 9 OHB
1400-1500 2 JSH, 9 unID accipiter, 18 OHB, 1 Peregrine, 4 unID raptor
1500-1600 196 OHB, 1 unID accipiter
1600-1700 40 OHB.

Counters: Danny & Lau Jia Sheng, Low Choon How, Con Foley, Tan Kok Hui, Jacky Soh, Francis Yap, Tan Gim Cheong (PM) & Ee Ling (AM)

This pale raptor got us excited for a while, but it turned out to be a second year pale morph Changeable Hawk Eagle. ©Con Foley