Seletar Park Connector 30Apr25

From KH

Morning walk at Seletar Park Connector with some Asian Openbill drama. Right stork to centre stork: Your snail looks bigger than mine. "Headless" stork: I'm going for the biggest snail!

Pacific Swallow: those idiots..

Buffet at the far end for Eastern Cattle Egret, Gray Heron, Medium Egrets and Little Egrets.

Pretty Anomala beetle.

Dead peacock bass.

Sungei Buloh 13Nov24

From KH

I went to Sungei Buloh this morning. Glad to get 2 Ospreys in a frame.

Juvenile Purple Herons behind 3 Grey Herons.

Adult Purple Heron flying behind Grey Heron (left) and Little Egret.

Eastern Cattle Egret (left) and Medium Egret in comparison.

Estuarine Crocodile chilling.

Mayan Cichlid with Common Snakehead making friends.

Three Spot Gouramis, where's the third spot? The eye, apparently?!

Marina East 12Nov21

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Today's birding at Marina East is for the egrets and herons.

Medium Egret (left) and Eastern Cattle Egret - both with yellow bills, but observe the difference in form and structure, particularly of the neck and head.

Little Egret - black bill.

Pacific Reef-Heron, white morph with some dark feathers showing - bill colour is yellow to greyish or dusky, this one is more greyish.

Pond-heron, in non-breeding plumage.

Common Myna is rather common here.

Hougang 20Dec20

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Someone released a Mandarin Duck in Hougang!?

It seemed to enjoy the company of egrets and herons.

Cattle Egret. Intermediate Egret


Little Egret


Adult Striated Heron


Juvenile Striated Heron with funky hairstyle

As well as Common Sandpiper.

And Zebra Dove.

Fishes, like this Peacock Basses was not bothered either.

Other fishes also enjoyed the canal.

Common Mollies.

Along the walkway, Striped Albatross enjoyed sipping Tridax Daisy nectar.

1. Mandarin Duck 1 - Female, likely escapee
2. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
3. Spotted Dove 1
4. Zebra Dove 3
5. Common Sandpiper 1
6. Intermediate Egret 1
7. Little Egret 1
8. Cattle Egret 1
9. Striated Heron 5
10. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker 1 - Heard
11. Black-naped Oriole 1 - Heard
12. Common Iora 1 - Heard
13. House Crow 1
14. Yellow-vented Bulbul 1 - Heard
15. Arctic Warbler 1 - Heard
16. Javan Myna 1
17. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1 - Heard
18. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1
19. Olive-backed Sunbird 1
20. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 1

Seletar Dam, Seletar East 02Dec18

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A short stop-over at Seletar Dam did not yield any wader other than a Common Sandpiper.

1. 1 Common Sandpiper - Heard
2. 1 Gray Heron
3. 1 Great Egret
4. 5 Little Egret
5. 2 Collared Kingfisher
6. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
7. 1 House Crow
8. 5 Javan Myna
9. 3 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Moving on to Seletar East, it was uncommon to see a Savanna Nightjar out in the open, but I guess it's really confident of its camouflage!

As usual, the Pintail/Swinhoe's Snipes will fly off before you see them.

Next, a Cattle Egret put on a good show, dipping and tossing an Asian Toad, before swallowing it.

This Intermediate Egret looked on.

It was good to round it all off with an uncommon White-shouldered Starling.

1. 5 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
2. 1 Spotted Dove
3. 1 Pink-necked Pigeon
4. 1 Asian Koel - Heard
5. 1 Savanna Nightjar
6. 30 dark swiftlet sp.
7. 10 Pacific Golden-Plover
8. 1 snipe sp.
9. 7 Intermediate Egret
10. 2 Little Egret
11. 7 Cattle Egret
12. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
13. 1 Brahminy Kite
14. 1 Common Kingfisher - Heard
15. 5 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
16. 2 Brown Shrike
17. 1 Long-tailed Shrike
18. 1 Black-naped Oriole
19. 3 Barn Swallow
20. 2 Yellow-vented Bulbul
21. 2 Zitting Cisticola
22. 1 White-shouldered Starling
23. 5 Javan Myna
24. 1 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
25. 4 Paddyfield Pipit
26. 3 Chestnut Munia

Neo Tiew Harvest Lane 18Nov18

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Martin reported a Black-headed Bunting in Neptunia plena here. The primaries and tail are in really bad shape.

There were lots of egrets in the grass field.

Cattle Egrets

Intermediate (left) and Little Egrets

A few Oriental Honey-buzzards flew overhead.

So did a few Red-breasted Parakeets.

1. 2 Spotted Dove
2. 1 Zebra Dove - Heard
3. 30 Pink-necked Pigeon
4. 1 Lesser Coucal - Heard
5. 1 Asian Koel - Heard
6. 20 dark swiftlet sp.
7. 1 White-breasted Waterhen - Heard
8. 8 Red-wattled Lapwing - Heard
9. 3 snipe sp.
10. 2 Common Sandpiper
11. 1 Yellow Bittern
12. 15 Intermediate Egret
13. 1 Little Egret
14. 5 Cattle Egret
15. 1 Black-winged Kite
16. 6 Oriental Honey-buzzard
17. 3 Black Baza
18. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
19. 1 Accipiter sp.
20. 1 Brahminy Kite - Heard
21. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
22. 1 Collared Kingfisher
23. 10 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
24. 1 Dollarbird
25. 1 Lineated Barbet - Heard
26. 2 Common Flameback
27. 1 Laced Woodpecker - Heard
28. 2 Rose-ringed Parakeet
29. 10 Red-breasted Parakeet
30. 10 Long-tailed Parakeet
31. 1 Common Iora
32. 1 Pied Triller - Male
33. 1 Brown Shrike
34. 2 Long-tailed Shrike
35. 3 Black-naped Oriole
36. 1 Black Drongo
37. 1 Large-billed Crow
38. 20 Barn Swallow
39. 3 Yellow-vented Bulbul
40. 2 Black-browed Reed Warbler - Heard
41. 2 Oriental Reed Warbler - Heard
42. 1 Ashy Tailorbird - Heard
43. 1 Yellow-bellied Prinia - Heard
44. 1 Zitting Cisticola
45. 2 Asian Brown Flycatcher - Heard
46. 1 Siberian Stonechat (Stejneger's)
47. 20 Asian Glossy Starling
48. 20 Javan Myna
49. 2 Paddyfield Pipit
50. 1 Black-headed Bunting - Primaries and tail in bad shape
51. 3 Golden-backed Weaver