Halus, Pasir Ris Park 21Dec17

From KH

At Halus, there were only 2 OHBs, 1 Black Baza, 1 dark CHE, 2 Brahminy Kites, and 1 WBSE.

OHBs


Black Baza


Dark CHE


Brahminy Kites

A Changeable Lizard was sunning itself.

At Pasir Ris Park, the chickens were doing very well.

The fish and crabs were also doing very well at the mangrove.

Grey Knight Goby. Yellow-spotted Mudskipper


Singapore Vinegar Crab. Violet Vinegar Crab

It was now mid afternoon. Nothing much was going on. Just a male Common Flameback perched quietly on a tall tree.

Then, the drama started building up. First, with the Blue-tailed Bee-eaters.

Face-off between predator and prey!


No prize for guessing who's the winner!


A difference in perspective makes one a giant and the other a dwarf.

Next, a little Common Water Monitor action. M1 decided to take a nap in a nice cozy tree hole, not knowing there was already an occupant, M2, higher up on the tree. Naturally, M2 was pissed off!

M2 went on the offence and literally "kicked" M1 out! M1 dropped into the river below and M2 went back to his siesta on its tree top lodge.

Almost immediately after the monitor lizard drama, a noisy family of Smooth Otters appeared out of nowhere!

In this family, 2 of them each caught a big fish, and the rest of the family were harassing them for a share of the kills. Of course, the 2 of them put up a good fight to retain each of their kills!

After the otter drama, I thought that was enough action for today. Then, while heading back to the carpark, I saw a raptor perched on a tall tree. It looked like a tweeddale morph torquatus OHB. I went around to find a better angle and took some shots; it turned out to be a male orientalis OHB. Strange, has it "morphed" into another race? Going around to find an even better angle, I took some more shots and now I got the tweeddale! What's happening?? It turned out that there were 2 birds on the same tree.

Male orientalis OHB. Male tweeddale morph torquatus OHB