Tampines Eco Green, Pasir Ris Farmway 03Apr22

From KH

I went to Tampinese Eco Green for a walk.

Introduced Asian Golden Weaver, breeding male, making nest in Water Dead-and-Awake (Neptunia plena). What a name for this Neptunia! Compare with the completed nest on the right.

Local Baya Weaver in various forms:

Female type. Partial breeding male


Breeding male

Baya Weaver nests on Earpod Wattle (Acacia auriculiformis).

Male Red-breasted Parakeets sharing tree with Pink-necked Green-Pigeon couple.

Collared Kingfisher on bare tree. Sunda Woodpeckers on another bare tree.

Sooty-headed Bulbul on bush.

Pale juvenile Oriental Honey-Buzzard flew over me!

Chicken, male and female.

Chestnut Bob, a skipper butterfly.

Two trees side by side, one with lichens, one with mosses? Why?

Next, Pasir Ris Farmway. Got 5 Chinese Pond-Herons assuming breeding plumage. Here are 2 of them.

Javan Myna: I can also stretch my neck. Chinese Pond-Heron: Try harder.

Seletar Dam, Halus 02Apr21

From KH

Con, Danny and I went to Seletar Dam and got 5 Commmon Greenshanks. Mega!.. JS was at KNT conducting census and he got 52 Whimbrels and 1 Common Greenshank. He also reported that greenie wasn't at LCK3.

The three of us then went to Lorong Halus. Nice to see that a Little Grebe was still enjoying itself there.

The introduced Asian Golden Weavers were nesting.

So were the local Baya Weavers.

A couple of migrants: Japanese Sparrowhawk and Pacific Swift.

Here's a non-bird - Lime Butterfly.

Lorong Halus 04Aug18

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Con, Danny and I went Halus for today's birding.

It was nice to see a trio of Lesser Whistling-ducks flew by. 100% crop of two of them.

It was even nicer to know the Little Grebes are hanging on to their "stronghold" here, as can be seen by this breeding pair.

To our surprise, three pairs of introduced Asian Golden Weavers were nesting at the Old Grebe Pond.

Other introduced species here included:

Common Waxbill. Red-backed Munia


Golden-backed Weavers nesting at the New Grebe Pond

Glad that the local Baya Weavers are not too affected by all the alien species, as can be seen here in breeding plumage.

Other birds around included:

Oriental White-eye. Pied Triller


Red-breasted Parakeets


Slaty-breasted Rail

1. 3 Lesser Whistling-Duck
2. 2 Little Grebe - Breeding pair
3. 8 Spotted Dove
4. 8 Zebra Dove
5. 5 Pink-necked Pigeon
6. 2 Asian Koel - Heard
7. 2 Little Bronze-Cuckoo
8. 1 Banded Bay Cuckoo - Heard
9. 1 Brush Cuckoo (Rusty-breasted)
10. 1 Savanna Nightjar
11. 20 dark swiftlet sp.
12. 1 Slaty-breasted Rail
13. 5 White-breasted Waterhen
14. 11 Greater Painted-Snipe
15. 1 Common Sandpiper
16. 5 Little Tern
17. 1 Gray Heron
18. 1 Purple Heron
19. 1 Striated Heron
20. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Dark
21. 2 White-throated Kingfisher
22. 3 Collared Kingfisher
23. 3 Blue-throated Bee-eater
24. 2 Sunda Woodpecker
25. 2 Rufous Woodpecker - Heard
26. 2 Common Flameback
27. 3 Rose-ringed Parakeet
28. 10 Red-breasted Parakeet
29. 3 Long-tailed Parakeet
30. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
31. 8 Common Iora
32. 2 Pied Triller
33. 2 Long-tailed Shrike
34. 4 Black-naped Oriole
35. 2 Malaysian Pied-Fantail
36. 3 House Crow
37. 2 Large-billed Crow
38. 1 Barn Swallow
39. 1 Sooty-headed Bulbul
40. 10 Yellow-vented Bulbul
41. 2 Common Tailorbird
42. 4 Ashy Tailorbird
43. 4 Yellow-bellied Prinia
44. 8 Oriental White-eye
45. 1 Oriental Magpie-Robin - Heard
46. 20 Asian Glossy Starling
47. 8 Common Myna
48. 15 Javan Myna
49. 3 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
50. 1 Plain-throated Sunbird
51. 5 Olive-backed Sunbird
52. 1 Paddyfield Pipit
53. 30 Golden-backed Weaver - 30 nests
54. 10 Baya Weaver - Nesting
55. 6 Asian Golden Weaver - At least 3 pairs nesting
56. 10 Common Waxbill
57. 4 Black-and-white Mannikin (Red-backed) - 2 adults, 2 juvenile
58. 2 Scaly-breasted Munia
59. 1 Chestnut Munia

Halus, Tampines Eco Green 09Jul11

From KH

Last Sat was a day of escapees. Danny and I did not see the Streaked Weaver at Halus, but instead saw a male and a few female Golden-backed Weavers. The females were making nests. Other birds of note were 2 juvenile Javan Munias.

After Halus, we went to Tampines Eco Green and managed to see 2 pairs of Asian Golden Weavers, including one female entering a nest. There was also a Sooty-headed Bulbul.

After lunch, despite the hot sun, we walked along Punggol Promenade, but nothing of interest was seen, except for a Sooty-headed Bulbul flying away.