Botanic Gardens 31Jan26

From KH

Danny and I went to Singapore Botanic Gardens today.

An immature pale CHE with 6 fingers? Look more carefully, replacement feather growing in place of molted finger.

Male Brown-throated Sunbird sipping nectar from Bronze Banana flower.

A Blue-winged Pitta at Learning Forest.

Red-whiskered Bulbuls also.

Smooth Otter couple at Symphony Lake: Dear, I thought you said there'll be symphony??

Hampstead Wetland 30Jan26

From KH

Morning walk at Hampstead Wetland.

Coppersmith Barbet gathering on Casuarina with a busybody Asian Glossy Starling.

Blue-tailed Bee-eaters hanging out with a Dollarbird and a Blue-throated Bee-eater.

Seletar Park Connector 29Jan26

From KH

Morning walk at Seletar Park Connector.

Asian Openbill dozing.

Spider with eggs on Sea Hibiscus.

Scale insect on Simpoh Air.

Grass with seeds.

Sungei Serangoon 27Jan26

From KH

Someone reported a Little Cormorant with no notes/photos at Sungei Serangoon. Some of us took the bait, but no cormorant. Nevertheless, afternoon walk along Sungei Serangoon revealed more Asian Openbills.

Some foraging Common Sandpipers.

A lone Black Baza.

And an adult Grey-headed Fish-Eagle perched high up.

Seletar Park Connector 27Jan26

From KH

Morning walk at Seletar Park Connector with the usual cast of Grey Heron, Medium Egret and Little Egrets.

Not the usual, a couple of kungfu Medium Egrets.

Asian Openbills continuing.

Asian Brown Flycatcher with its awesome head gear..

Another brown bird: Brown Shrike.

Also a brown bird, but more often heard than seen: Black-browed Reed-Warbler.

White Beggarticks Bidens alba

Coral vine Antigonon leptopus.

Marina Grove, Branksome Road 24Jan26

From KH

Danny, JS and I went to Marina Grove today. The little pond continued to support the Little Grebe family. Here's a juvenile.

Lesser Whistling-Duck chilling.

Ruddy-breasted Crake foraging.

A shy Little Heron.

Juvenile Yellow Bittern.

Most of them were juveniles. Here's an adult male.

Humped Bladderwort, a carnivorous plant.

Taiga Flycatcher continuing in the wooded patch of the pond.

In the adjacent grassland, Zitting Cisticola singing its lungs out on Neptunia plena.

Asian Openbill flew overhead.

As Danny has not seen the Common Hoopoe, we went to Branksome Road and the bird was in a different private property further down the road.

Hampstead Wetland 23Jan26

From KH

A juvenile OHB was hanging out on a flowering tree at Hampstead Wetland today.

Male Oriental Pied-Hornbill being shy.

Blue-throated Bee-eater out in full force, four in one.

This one preferred to be alone on Sea Almond infested with bagworm moth.

Seletar Park Connector 22Jan26

From KH

Morning walk at Seletar Park Connector yielded a Variable Squirrel, usually found at Bidadari area.

Plantain Squirrel, the usual suspect here. Eating Sea Almond seed here.

Also usual, Little Egrets, Medium Egrets and Grey Heron feeding on the barge.

A small flock of Asian Openbills.

Poor Water Monitor with a plastic collar.

Spiders with eggs on Sea Hibiscus leaf.

Tree with interesting seed pods.

Seletar Dam 18Jan26

From KH

I conducted the Asian Waterfowl Census at Seletar Dam today. Wader-wise, only Common Greenshank and 1 Common Sandpiper.

Lots of egrets and herons though, mostly at the far end, but good to have them side by side for comparison. Here, a single Grey Heron among Medium Egrets.

Here, left to right: Little Heron, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Great Egret.

A pair of Great-billed Herons photo-bombed by a Great Egret.

Raptor-wise, besides the residents, there was an Osprey on a pole far away.