Rifle Range, SBWR 07Oct17

From KH

Con, Danny and I spent the morning at Jelutong Tower. Seetoh was there too. Great to get a Tweeddale morph torquatus Oriental Honey-buzzard.

It was thermaling with an orientalis.

Not to lose out the resident Changeable Hawk-eagle and Brahminy Kite came together to put on a show.

There were so many butterflies today!

Common Sailor. Malay Staff Sergeant

Tree Nymph. Chocolate Sailor

Colour Sergeants (male left, female right)

Female Purple Duke. Malayan Lascar

Spotted Black Crow

After lunch, Con left and, JS & BJ joined us at the new Sungei Buloh. While waiting for Danny to pick up the lovebirds, a pair of juvenile Yellow-vented Bulbuls entertained me.

The highlight at Eagle Point was a juvenile Brahminy Kite hoping to steal an Osprey's fresh catch!

The fishes were out in full force! Look over here juvy Brahminy...

Milkfish. A single Stripe-nosed Halfbeak with Kops' Glass Perchlets

Spotted Scats. Slender Needlefish

Here's a male Common Dasher (Potamarcha congener). The female lacks the blue thorax, but has yellow stripes on it instead.

Other insects include this white-handed fly and this grasshopper Nisitrus vittatus.

A Green Crested Lizard put on quite a pose.

When we thought raptor watching is over, an adult Grey-headed Fish-eagle and a juvenile Japanese Sparrowhwk flew overhead.