Punggol Promenade, Seletar East, AMK TGW 17Dec19

From KH

I went to the west end of Punggol Promenade Nature Walk for a short walk.

Common Sandpiper was still hanging around at the same stretch.

Immature male Oriental Magpie-robin looking rather scruffy.

Plantain Squirrel carrying nesting material.

Punggol Promenade Nature Walk (West End)

1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
2. Spotted Dove 5
3. Asian Koel 1 - heard
4. dark swiftlet sp. 20
5. Common Sandpiper 1
6. Great Crested Tern 3
7. Gray Heron 2
8. Striated Heron 2
9. Common Kingfisher 1
10. White-throated Kingfisher 1
11. Collared Kingfisher 1
12. Common Iora 2
13. House Crow 5
14. Large-billed Crow 2
15. Common Tailorbird 2
16. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2
17. Asian Glossy Starling 2 - heard
18. Javan Myna 10
19. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
20. Olive-backed Sunbird 2
21. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 10

Next, I headed to Seletar East and got an Oriental Pratincole.

Yellow Bittern was still at the same grass patch.

Seletar East
1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 10
2. Spotted Dove 2
3. dark swiftlet sp. 20
4. Oriental Pratincole 1
5. Yellow Bittern 1
6. Intermediate Egret 10
7. Cattle Egret 30
8. Blue-tailed Bee-eater 1
9. Sunda Woodpecker 1 - heard
10. Rose-ringed Parakeet 10
11. Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 1 - heard
12. Pied Triller 1 - male
13. Black-naped Oriole 1
14. Brown Shrike 1
15. Long-tailed Shrike 2
16. Zitting Cisticola 2 - heard
17. Barn Swallow 10
18. Common Myna 1
19. Javan Myna 20
20. Paddyfield Pipit 4

Last stop for today: Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West.

The best birds here were a group of about 8 Grey-rumped Treeswifts, which were flying over the AMK Central side. Here's one with overcast background.

A flock of Pink-necked Green-pigeons were enjoying their teabreak of fruits.

Lastly, a pair of Greater Racket-tailed Drongos, also with overcast background.

Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West

1. Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) 1 - heard
2. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 20
3. dark swiftlet sp. 1
4. Gray-rumped Treeswift 8
5. Black-naped Oriole 1 - heard
6. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 2
7. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2
8. Asian Glossy Starling 5
9. Javan Myna 20
10. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
11. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1 - heard
12. Olive-backed Sunbird 1 - heard