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.

Sungei Buloh 14Oct24

From KH

4 Lesser Adjutants feeding on the mudflat. After having their fill, they flew to the trees.

Mycteria storks hybridize in Singapore. From left to right: closer to Painted Stork, intermediate, closer to Milky Stork.

Faraway Little Egret and Great Egrets for size comparison.

Here are closer Little Egret and Great Egret.

Left to right: Common Sandpiper, Eurasian Whimbrel, Pacific Golden-Plover.

2 PGPs and 2 Whimbrels.

Some of the 73 Whimbrels.

Happy counting some of the 90 Common Redshanks.

Asian Glossy Starling fly by.

Marina East 02Dec23

From KH

Danny and I went to Marina East today, and got these migrant waders.

1 of 2 Tibetan Sand-Plovers.

2 Kentish Plovers.

2 White-faced Plovers.

1 of 4 Common Sandpipers.

Resident birds include this Purple Heron enjoying an American Bullfrog breakfast.

Marina East 23Sep23

From KH

Danny, JS and I went to Marina East today. Just the usual waders.

Common Sandpiper

Malaysian Plover couple

White-faced Plover

Sungei Serangoon 25Mar23

From KH

It's Annual Bird Census and I covered Sungei Serangoon as usual.

Adult Black-crowned Night-Heron

Common Sandpiper

Grey Heron. Little Egret

Malaysian Pied-Fantail

Sungei Buloh 02Nov22

From KH

Another Singapore first, Black-headed Ibis, was spotted at Sungei Buloh on 1 Nov 2022. So this trip is mandatory. When I reached today, it was feeding with storks, herons and egrets, seemingly accepted by them. Alas, it only stayed for 5 days, until 5 Nov.

The Milky and Painted Storks in Singapore were mainly from free-ranging stocks in Singapore Zoo, and they hybridize rampantly here. At Sungei Buloh, one can see the whole spectrum of what looks like pure Milky Storks to various intermediate hybrid forms to what looks like pure Painted Storks (clockwise from top left).

1 of many Little Egrets.

1 of 8 Grey Herons. Incoming!

Only 1 Medium Egret.

2 of many Common Redshanks.

1 of 10 Pacific Golden Plovers.

1 of 3 Common Sandpipers.

Only 1 Common Greenshank.

There were also 10 Eurasian Whimbrels.

Chek Jawa 05Apr22

From KH

The second Singapore record of Large Woodshrike was first reported on 3 Apr 2022 at Chek Jawa. Danny and I went on 5 Apr and luckily the bird was still around. In fact, it lasted until 8 Apr 2022.

The trees by the boardwalk attacted other birds as well, such as these kingfishers: Collared and Stork-billed.

And this adult White-bellied Sea-Eagle on a palm tree.

The famous Chinese Egret with red Korean flag K090.

Great-billed Heron kept it company.

This Eurasian Whimbrel with green on white flag H3 was tagged in Singapore and if you look carefully, you can see an antenna coming out of its back, which is really cool. That's how researchers track the migration of such birds.

Common Sandpiper on the rock.

Squaretail Mullet, the odd one out among other fish.

Eventually, we were escorted out by this Knight. What a nice name for a butterfly.