Lorong Halus 30Sep20

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I spent an afternoon hour at Lorong Halus Wetland, and saw a couple of Oriental Honey-Buzzards thermalling high up.

A pretty Slender Green-winged Grasshopper Aiolopus thalassinus.

A skipper butterfly called Malayan Swift.

A dragonfly called Dancing Dropwing.

And a drama unfolding. A Heavy Jumper Hyllus semicupreus was stalking a lynx spider Oxyopes. I observed it slowly inching forward, but didn't stay to see the ending.

1. Spotted Dove 3
2. Zebra Dove 2
3. Asian Koel 1 - Heard
4. Savanna Nightjar 1
5. Oriental Honey-buzzard 2
6. Changeable Hawk-Eagle 1 - Heard
7. Brahminy Kite 2
8. Collared Kingfisher 1 - Heard
9. bee-eater sp. 1 - Heard
10. Dollarbird 1
11. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker 1 - Heard
12. Red-breasted Parakeet 2
13. Black-naped Oriole 1 - Heard
14. Long-tailed Shrike 1
15. Ashy Tailorbird 1 - Heard
16. Yellow-vented Bulbul 1 - Heard
17. Asian Glossy Starling 5
18. Common Myna 2
19. Javan Myna 5

Rower's Bay, Seletar Dam 27Sep20

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Decided to go Seletar Dam for wader watching. But, first up, at Rower's Bay, a couple of juvenile Yellow-vented Bulbuls were begging for food.

And here's a female Blue Sprite resting on Pink Kopsia Kopsia fruticosa.

1. Masked Lapwing 2
2. Little Tern 1
3. Little Egret 4
4. Common Tailorbird 1
5. Barn Swallow 1
6. Yellow-vented Bulbul 3 - 2 juveniles begging adult for food
7. Javan Myna 10
8. Olive-backed Sunbird 1 - Male

At the dam, there wasn't much, so I entertained myself with the plants and insects. There're Purple Cleome Cleome rutidosperma (left) and Ivy Gourd Coccinia grandis (right).

Male Coastal Glider (left) and male Blue Sprite (right).

A well-camouflaged Pygmy Grass Blue.

1. Zebra Dove 2
2. Common Sandpiper 2
3. tern sp. 1- Not little flew towards reservoir
4. Gray Heron 1
5. Little Egret 2
6. Striated Heron 3
7. House Crow 3
8. Barn Swallow 1
9. Javan Myna 15

Back at Rower's Bay, I got a male Common Bluetail. Notice it looks similar to the male Blue Sprite, but the amount of blue on the thorax and abdomen are much less.

A Great Eggfly.

A cute male Ashy Tailorbird.

Female Olive-backed Sunbird on Red Leea.

House Crow with nesting material.

And friendly introduced Masked Lapwing.

1. Masked Lapwing 5 - Introduced
2. Little Tern 6
3. Great Egret 1
4. Little Egret 30
5. White-bellied Sea-Eagle 1
6. Red-breasted Parakeet 1 - Heard
7. Black-naped Oriole 1- Heard
8. Common Iora 1 - Heard
9. House Crow 2 - Carrying nesting material
10. Ashy Tailorbird 1
11. Barn Swallow 5
12. Javan Myna 30
13. Olive-backed Sunbird 2 - Pair

SBWR 26Sep20

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After lunch, I went back to the old Sungei Buloh and saw Tailless, the huge Estuarine Crocodile, taking an afternoon dip.

A smaller Estuarine Crocodile was basking on the mudflat, while a Milky Stork kept its distance.

Cotton Stainer Bug Dysdercus decussatus nymphs big and small.

1. Whimbrel 110
2. Common Redshank 5
3. Milky Stork 8 - Free ranging
4. Painted Stork 4 - Free ranging
5. Gray Heron 2
6. Great Egret 1
7. Little Egret 10
8. Collared Kingfisher 1
9. Lineated Barbet 1 - Heard
10. Black-naped Oriole 1
11. House Crow 2
12. Ashy Tailorbird 2
13. Yellow-vented Bulbul 1

Next up, the new Sungei Buloh.

Here are a couple of St Andrew's Cross Spiders - Argiope dang (left) and A. versicolor (right).

Here's a pair of Oval St Andrew's Cross Spiders A. aemula - the male is the tiny one.

Here's a jumping spider Hyllus diardi.

Another jumping spider Epocilla praetextata (one white stripe on the face compared to two for the more common E. calcarata).

Oriental Blue Dasher - a blue dragonfly with brown thorax sides.

Grenadier - a dragonfly with red abdomen top, black abdomen bottom and black tail.

Male Common Bluetail - a damselfly with black-and-green thorax and blue tail.

Striped Nomia Nomia strigata

A yellow bug walking past an ant.

Blue Glassy Tiger

Pelopidas

Chestnut Bob

Moth

Hoverfly Dideopsis and lagoon fly Eristalinus.

Fly

Stilt-legged flies mating.

Carinate Locust Trilophidia annulata and Japanese Rice Grasshopper Oxya japonica.

Pseudoxya diminuta

Nisitrus malaya - adult and nymph

Conocephalus cognatus

A long-horned grasshopper.

A couple of Ricanula planthoppers - R. sublimata (left) and R. stigmatica (right)

Other planthoppers - unID (left) and Elasmoscelis perforata.

Striated Heron

Common Iora

Used Baya Weaver nests.

1. Spotted Dove 4
2. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 1
3. dark swiftlet sp. 1
4. White-breasted Waterhen 2 - Heard
5. Gray Heron 1
6. Little Egret 12
7. Striated Heron 2
8. White-bellied Sea-Eagle 1
9. White-throated Kingfisher 1 - Heard
10. bee-eater sp. 1
11. Lineated Barbet 2
12. Red-breasted Parakeet 1 - Heard
13. Black-naped Oriole 2
14. Common Iora 2
15. House Crow 5
16. Ashy Tailorbird 3
17. Pacific Swallow 1
18. Yellow-vented Bulbul 3
19. Olive-winged Bulbul 1 - Heard
20. Swinhoe's White-eye 10
21. Asian Glossy Starling 3
22. Javan Myna 3
23. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1 - Heard
24. Olive-backed Sunbird 2
25. Baya Weaver 0 - Used nests