Seletar East 18Mar17

From KH

Danny and I went to Seletar East grassland and there were only 6 Pintail Snipes left, not more than 100 as reported last week by Martin K, plus a Common Snipe.

Common Snipe

Other birds in the grassland included this Lesser Coucal and Pacific Swallows.

Lesser Coucal preening as Pacific Swallow flew above

At the wooded area, many resident birds were nesting - Coppersmith Barbet, Laced Woodpecker, Common Iora, Olive-backed Sunbird, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Scaly-breasted Munia.

Female Common Iora collecting nesting material. Coppersmith Barbet working at nest hole

Laced Woodpecker. Sunda Woodpecker

Scaly-breasted Munia prospecting for nesting material

Male Olive-backed Sunbird

While some were already feeding juveniles, such as Asian Glossy Starling.

Other residents include a few Oriental White-eyes.

Oriental White-eye

This is the best time of the year where both Blue-tailed and Blue-throated Bee-eaters can be found at the same time.

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Other migrants present were 2 Yellow Bitterns, 2 Arctic Warblers, 1 male Yellow-rumped Flycatcher and a few Asian Brown Flycatchers.

Yellow Bittern

Asian Brown Flycatcher

After lunch, we went to out favourite place, Pulau Punggol, and got nothing much. Apparently, the Black-winged Kite chicks had fledged and the adults started mating again!

The only migrant raptor was a Black Baza.

Black Baza

The Baya Weavers were busy building nests and so were the African Golden Weavers.