Punggol Waterway Park Aug18

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Resident White-bellied Sea-eagles in aerial display. Three in one!

White-breasted Waterhen adult with juvenile following closely.

Juvenile Collared Kingfisher showing front and back.

Juvenile Long-tailed Shrike begging for food from adult.

Common bulbuls here: Sooty-headed Bulbul and Yellow-vented Bulbul.

Shy immature Asian Glossy Starling and male Pied Triller.

Mr and Mrs Olive-backed Sunbird.

Other denizens of this local patch: 5-cm-long centipede, Common Scarlet, dead 8-cm-long Javanese Grasshopper, female carpenter bee Xylocopa aestuans, Dwarf Honey Bee nest.

1. 20 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
2. 6 Spotted Dove
3. 2 Zebra Dove
4. 2 Asian Koel
5. 5 dark swiftlet sp.
6. 1 Large-tailed Nightjar - Heard
7. 3 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
8. 4 White-breasted Waterhen - 2 adults, 2 juveniles
9. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
10. 2 Collared Kingfisher
11. 1 Blue-throated Bee-eater
12. 1 Dollarbird - Heard
13. 3 Sunda Woodpecker
14. 1 Common Flameback - heard
15. 8 Rose-ringed Parakeet
16. 8 Red-breasted Parakeet
17. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
18. 2 Common Iora
19. 1 Pied Triller - Male
20. 4 Long-tailed Shrike
21. 3 Black-naped Oriole
22. 1 Malaysian Pied-Fantail - Heard
23. 1 House Crow
24. 4 Pacific Swallow
25. 4 Sooty-headed Bulbul
26. 5 Yellow-vented Bulbul
27. 1 Common Tailorbird - Heard
28. 1 Ashy Tailorbird - Heard
29. 1 Yellow-bellied Prinia - Heard
30. 20 Asian Glossy Starling
31. 1 Common Hill Myna
32. 11 Common Myna
33. 30 Javan Myna
34. 2 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
35. 1 Plain-throated Sunbird
36. 2 Olive-backed Sunbird

Republic Crescent Aug18

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Long-tailed Shrike hunting.

Asian Emerald Dove. Zebra Doves.

5-cm-long centipede.

After 3 weeks, this dead gecko was still hanging on...

Upskirt photo of an owlet moth.

1. 3 Spotted Dove
2. 1 Asian Emerald Dove
3. 8 Zebra Dove
4. 8 Pink-necked Pigeon
5. 1 Lesser Coucal - Heard
6. 2 Asian Koel - Heard
7. 1 Little Bronze-Cuckoo - Heard
8. 20 dark swiftlet sp.
9. 1 Brahminy Kite
10. 2 White-bellied Sea-Eagle - Heard
11. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
12. 2 Collared Kingfisher
13. 5 Blue-throated Bee-eater
14. 2 Dollarbird
15. 1 Sunda Woodpecker
16. 1 Rufous Woodpecker
17. 1 Commoon Flameback
18. 1 Laced Woodpecker - Heard
19. 1 Banded Woodpecker - Heard
20. 3 Rose-ringed Parakeet
21. 10 Long-tailed Parakeet
22. 1 Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot
23. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
24. 4 Common Iora
25. 1 Pied Triller
26. 1 Long-tailed Shrike
27. 5 Black-naped Oriole
28. 1 Malaysian Pied-Fantail - Heard
29. 2 Large-billed Crow
30. 3 House Crow
31. 2 Pacific Swallow
32. 5 Yellow-vented Bulbul
33. 2 Common Tailorbird
34. 1 Dark-necked Tailorbird - Heard
35. 5 Oriental White-eye
36. 2 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler - Heard
37. 1 Oriental Magpie-Robin
38. 25 Asian Glossy Starling
39. 4 Common Myna
40. 30 Javan Myna
41. 3 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
42. 1 Plain-throated Sunbird
43. 5 Olive-backed Sunbird
44. 2 Baya Weaver

Seletar Dam 28Aug18

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Daurian Starlings and juvenile Asian Glossy Starling. 100% crop.

1. 5 dark swiftlet sp.
2. 20 Lesser Sand-Plover
3. 1 Little Egret
4. 5 Striated Heron
5. 1 Collared Kingfisher - Heard
6. 2 House Crow
7. 1 Barn Swallow
8. 1 Ashy Tailorbird
9. 2 Asian Glossy Starling
10. 2 Daurian Starling - First of the season?
11. 5 Javan Myna

Pasir Ris Park 25Aug18

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The stars of Pasir Ris Park are the resident owls: the famous one-eyed jack Buffy Fish-owl, and the Sunda Scops Owl.

As well as the pair of Spotted Wood Owls.

A surprise today was this adult male Tweeddale morph Oriental Honey-buzzard of the torquatus subspecies.

A female Oriental Honey-buzzard of the orientalis subspecies also made a showing.

Other residents, like this male Common Flameback and this proud White-throated Kingfisher, were also present.

Here's the same flameback feeding away.

The domestic chickens were breeding well here.

This Common Flying Lizard glided in and showed its yellow gular flap.

Carpenter Bees (left Xylocopa latipes, right X. aestuans) were going crazy over these yellow flowers.

Whereas Asian Honey Bees were doing the same thing over these small white flowers.

1. 20 Red Junglefowl (Domestic type)
2. 4 Spotted Dove
3. 4 Zebra Dove
4. 3 Pink-necked Pigeon
5. 2 Asian Koel - Heard
6. 3 Little Bronze-Cuckoo - Heard
7. 1 Malaysian Hawk-Cuckoo
8. 10 dark swiftlet sp.
9. 2 White-breasted Waterhen
10. 1 Common Sandpiper
11. 2 Gray Heron
12. 1 Little Egret
13. 3 Striated Heron
14. 2 Oriental Honey-buzzard - Adult Tweeddale, female orientalis
15. 2 Brahminy Kite - 1 adult, 1 juvenile
16. 1 Sunda Scops-Owl
17. 1 Buffy Fish-Owl - The famous one eyed jack
18. 2 Spotted Wood-Owl
19. 1 Oriental Pied-Hornbill
20. 2 White-throated Kingfisher
21. 2 Collared Kingfisher
22. 1 Common Flameback - Male
23. 1 Laced Woodpecker - Female
24. 2 Rose-ringed Parakeet
25. 8 Red-breasted Parakeet
26. 1 Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot - Heard
27. 6 Common Iora
28. 4 Black-naped Oriole
29. 1 Malaysian Pied-Fantail - Heard
30. 2 House Crow
31. 2 Pacific Swallow
32. 4 Yellow-vented Bulbul
33. 1 Olive-winged Bulbul
34. 2 Common Tailorbird - Heard
35. 5 Ashy Tailorbird
36. 4 Oriental White-eye
37. 3 Oriental Magpie-Robin
38. 3 Asian Glossy Starling
39. 10 Javan Myna
40. 3 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
41. 3 Plain-throated Sunbird
42. 5 Olive-backed Sunbird

Johor 18-19Aug18

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I went Johor forest birding with Con and Danny this weekend.

It was babblers galore.

Fluffy-backed Tit-babblers duetting. Striped Wren-babbler singing.


Grey-headed Babbler


Short-tailed Babbler

The other birds here included:

Purple-naped Spiderhunter

White-bellied Woodpecker

Male Grey-rumped Treeswift

Whiskered Treeswift: female and male