Sengkang Riverside Park 25Dec20

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How to spend your Xmas? Immersed in nature of course!

The star bird here was the migrant Black-browed Reed-Warbler.

Other migrants included Asian Brown Flycatcher and Blue-tailed Bee-eater.

The residents included Collared Kingfisher with FIM and singing male Olive-backed Sunbird.

A couple of fishes.

Blue Dasher and Sweet Potato Bug.

Heavy Jumper.

1. Spotted Dove 8
2. Zebra Dove 6
3. dark swiftlet sp. 20
4. Yellow Bittern 1
5. White-throated Kingfisher 1
6. Collared Kingfisher 2
7. Blue-tailed Bee-eater 10
8. Dollarbird 1
9. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker 1 - Heard
10. Rose-ringed Parakeet 8
11. Black-naped Oriole 2
12. Common Iora 4
13. House Crow 2
14. Common Tailorbird 1 - Heard
15. Ashy Tailorbird 3 - Heard
16. Black-browed Reed Warbler 1
17. Pacific Swallow 2
18. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2
19. Arctic Warbler 1
20. Swinhoe's White-eye 2
21. Asian Glossy Starling 1
22. Common Myna 6
23. Javan Myna 30
24. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
25. Oriental Magpie-Robin 1 - Heard
26. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1
27. Brown-throated Sunbird 2
28. Olive-backed Sunbird 4

Turf City, Seletar East 06Dec20

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It's back to Turf City to try for cheeky starling, but it wasn't there.

There was a fruiting tree that attracted other birds though, such this Daurian Starling and this Straw-headed Bulbul.

And this Black-naped Oriole and this Coppersmith Barbet.

Why did the chicken cross the road with her brood?

1. Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) 5 - Adults with 3 juveniles
2. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
3. Spotted Dove 2
4. Zebra Dove 1
5. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 50
6. dark swiftlet sp. 20
7. White-breasted Waterhen 1 - Heard
8. White-throated Kingfisher 1
9. Coppersmith Barbet 1
10. Lineated Barbet 2 - Heard
11. Common Flameback 1 - Female
12. Rose-ringed Parakeet 2
13. Red-breasted Parakeet 1
14. Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 1
15. Black-naped Oriole 2
16. Dark-necked Tailorbird 2
17. Straw-headed Bulbul 2
18. Yellow-vented Bulbul 5
19. Pin-striped Tit-Babbler 3 - Heard
20. Asian Glossy Starling 100
21. Common Hill Myna 1 - Heard
22. Daurian Starling 10
23. Javan Myna 2
24. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 2
25. Brown-throated Sunbird 1

Since the star bird was nowhere to be seen, I left for Hampstead Wetland to look-see.

Beware of this Ropalidia sumatrae nest!

How did this juvenile Oriental Honey-Buzzard miss it!

Blue-tailed Bee-eater looked on, while Coppersmith Barbet entered its nest.

Here're a couple of Buffy Fish-Owls.

Bamboo Orchid is a magnet for insects, such as this Malayan Eggfly and these ants.

1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
2. Spotted Dove 1
3. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 2
4. Asian Koel 1
5. dark swiftlet sp. 20
6. Oriental Honey-buzzard 1
7. Gray-headed Fish-Eagle 1
8. Buffy Fish-Owl 2
9. White-throated Kingfisher 1
10. Blue-tailed Bee-eater 6
11. Coppersmith Barbet 2
12. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker 1
13. Black-naped Oriole 1
14. Common Iora 1
15. Barn Swallow 1
16. Pacific Swallow 2
17. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2
18. Swinhoe's White-eye 5
19. Asian Glossy Starling 10
20. Javan Myna 5
21. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
22. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1
23. Olive-backed Sunbird 2

Serangoon Tidal Gates 22Feb20

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After Coney Island, I went to Serangoon Tidal Gates.

Siamese twin Spotted Dove??

This White-throated Kingfisher was sunning itself.

While this female Common Kingfisher was looking for fish.

One of these Blue-tailed Bee-eaters got a moth in mouth.

Golden-backed Weavers male (left) and female feasting on seeds.

A Common Evening Brown Melanitis leda to end the walk.

Serangoon Tidal Gates

1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1
2. Spotted Dove 10
3. Zebra Dove 2
4. dark swiftlet sp. 10
5. Gray Heron 5
6. Brahminy Kite 1
7. Common Kingfisher 1
8. White-throated Kingfisher 1
9. Blue-tailed Bee-eater 2
10. Black-naped Oriole 3
11. Common Iora 2 - heard
12. Malaysian Pied-Fantail 1 - heard
13. House Crow 1 - heard
14. Ashy Tailorbird 1
15. Yellow-bellied Prinia 2
16. Pacific Swallow 5
17. Sooty-headed Bulbul 5
18. Yellow-vented Bulbul 5
19. Common Myna 10
20. Javan Myna 10
21. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1 - heard
22. Olive-backed Sunbird 3
23. Golden-backed Weaver 20 - nesting
24. Paddyfield Pipit 2

Kinabatangan 10Jun18 am

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5 raptors:

Grey-headed Fish-eagle. Wallace's Hawk-eagle.

Jerdon's Baza. Adult Brahminy Kite.

Male White-fronted Falconet flying in with prey to hand over to female, who gladly took it!

3 hornbills:

Female White-crowned Hornbill. Bushy-crested Hornbill.

Black Hornbill (left female, right male)

2 resident kingfishers.

Female Blue-eared Kingfisher showing her back and front.

Stork-billed Kingfisher

1 rare austral migrant - Sacred Kingfisher.

Storm's Storks (left) and Great Egret.

And other birds:

Blur shot of Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo. 100% crop of Pink-necked Green-pigeons.

100% crop of Blue-throated Bee-eaters.

Butt shot of Slender-billed Crows.

At last, something close and open: White-chested Babbler.

1. 4 Storm's Stork
2. 1 Lesser Adjutant
3. 2 Oriental Darter
4. 5 Purple Heron
5. 5 Great Egret
6. 1 Jerdon's Baza
7. 1 Crested Serpent-Eagle
8. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Dark morph
9. 1 Wallace's Hawk-Eagle - Juvenile
10. 1 Brahminy Kite
11. 1 Gray-headed Fish-Eagle - Adult
12. 1 Asian Emerald Dove
13. 5 Pink-necked Pigeon
14. 5 Green Imperial-Pigeon
15. 3 Greater Coucal
16. 1 Raffles's Malkoha
17. 1 Plaintive Cuckoo - Heard
18. 1 Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo - Heard
19. 5 Plume-toed Swiftlet
20. 30 dark swiftlet sp.
21. 1 White-crowned Hornbill - Female
22. 1 Rhinoceros Hornbill - Heard
23. 1 Bushy-crested Hornbill
24. 4 Black Hornbill
25. 2 Oriental Pied-Hornbill
26. 4 Blue-eared Kingfisher
27. 2 Stork-billed Kingfisher
28. 1 Sacred Kingfisher
29. 5 Blue-throated Bee-eater
30. 2 Dollarbird
31. 1 Brown Barbet
32. 1 Blue-eared Barbet
33. 1 Red-throated Barbet - Heard
34. 2 White-fronted Falconet - A pair
35. 5 Long-tailed Parakeet
36. 2 Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot
37. 5 Black-and-red Broadbill
38. 2 Black-and-yellow Broadbill - Heard
39. 3 Hooded Pitta - Heard
40. 1 Common Iora
41. 1 Dark-throated Oriole - Heard
42. 1 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo - Heard
43. 2 Malaysian Pied-Fantail
44. 1 Black-naped Monarch - Heard
45. 5 Slender-billed Crow
46. 3 Pacific Swallow
47. 2 Red-eyed Bulbul
48. 3 Ashy Tailorbird
49. 1 Yellow-bellied Prinia - Heard
50. 2 Bold-striped Tit-Babbler - Heard
51. 2 Chestnut-winged Babbler - Heard
52. 5 White-chested Babbler
53. 2 White-rumped Shama (White-crowned) - Heard
54. 2 Malaysian Blue Flycatcher - Heard
55. 5 Asian Glossy Starling
56. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
57. 1 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker - Heard
58. 1 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker - Heard