Telok Blangah, Dover Forest 25Oct21

From KH

I started the day's birding with raptor watch at Telok Blangah Hill. Before any migrant raptor shows, what do you do? Look an Arctic Warbler on a Rain Tree.

Or a Crested Serpent-Eagle that perched on a bare tree.

Soon news of a "skylark" broke at the western edge of Dover Forest, and birders were flocking to the site. It then became clear that it was a Tree Pipit, another SG-first! When I reached, people were already zooming in on it, so it was an easy tick. While called a Tree Pipit, this bird was mostly on the Whitehead Spikesedge grass patch finding food. At some point in time, it did perch on a bare tree, redeeming it's namesake.

Was it trying to catch Spathosternum prasiniferum grasshoppers or Chestnut Bob butterflies?

Some nice plants at Dover Forest: Dragon Scale Fern on Yellow Flame.