BBNP, DFNP, SBG, Pulau Punggol 14Jan17
From KH
Con, Danny and I started the day at Wallace Education Centre (WEC), but the carpark was beyond full, so we headed to BBNP instead.Partial list at BBNP:
- Changeable hawk-eagle 1 dark morph sitting on nest
- White-breasted waterhen 1
- Pink-necked green-pigeon >6 including 1 nesting pair
- Stork-billed kingfisher 1
- Collared kingfisher 2
- Lineated barbet 2 heard only
- Common flameback 3
- Banded Woodpecker 1
- Straw-headed bulbul >3
- Yellow-vented bulbul >2
- Pin-striped tit-babbler >2
- White-crested laughingthrush 2 heard only
After one loop at BBNP, we went back to WEC. The Oriental scops owls were indeed gone. Rumour has it that photographers shone light on the owls and shook the tree... Nevertheless, it was good to see a Falco thermaling high up. Amur Falcon?
Moving on to SBG, we got the released male Silver Pheasant, Orange-headed thrush, Buffy fish owl pair and male Oriental pied hornbill.
We finally got to lunch at the Prata Place at Evans Road! After lunch, Danny and I went to Pulau Punggol, but the Booted eagle was not seen. We saw the following birds instead.
- Black-winged kite 1
- Black baza 1
- Brahminy kite 3
- White-bellied sea-eagle 3
- Pintail/Swinhoe's snipe 2
- Red-wattled lapwing 2
- Common greenshank 10
- Marsh sandpiper 2
- Red collared dove 2
- Spotted dove >10
- Zebra dove >10
- Pink-necked green-pigeon 2
- Lesser coucal 2
- Asian koel 1 female
- Banded bay cuckoo 1
- Little bronze cuckoo 1 heard only
- Swiftlet spp. >20
- Collared kingfisher 2
- Blue-tailed bee-eater >5
- Dollarbird 2
- Sunda woodpecker 1
- Common Flameback 2
- Rose-ringed parakeet 2
- Red-breasted parakeet >10
- Golden-bellied gerygone 2
- Common iora 1
- Black-naped oriole >5
- Pied Fantail 2
- Sooty-headed bulbul >5
- Yellow-vented bulbul >10
- Barn swallow >10
- Arctic warbler 2
- Zitting cisticola 1
- Lanceolated warbler 1 heard only
- Oriental reed warbler 1 heard only
- Yellow-bellied prinia 1 heard only
- Ashy tailorbird 2
- Javan myna >10
- Yellow-rumped flycatcher 1 male singing
- Asian brown flycatcher 1
- Olive-backed sunbird 2
- Paddyfield pipit 2
- Baya weaver >10
- Scaly-breasted munia >10
- Yellow-fronted canary 4
- waxbill sp. >10
- widowbird sp. 1
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