Petai Trail, Telok Blangah 13Oct23

From KH

I went to Petai Trail and got this Oriental Honey-Buzzard.

1. Red Junglefowl (Domestic form) 1 H
2. Asian Koel 1 H
3. dark swiftlet sp. 11
4. Oriental Honey-Buzzard 1
5. Brahminy Kite 1 ad
6. Red-crowned Barbet 1 H
7. Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 3
8. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 1 H
9. House Crow 1 H
10. Dark-necked Tailorbird 4 H
11. Pacific Swallow 1
12. Olive-winged Bulbul 1 H
13. Arctic Warbler 7 H
14. Pin-striped Tit-Babbler 4 H
15. Asian Glossy Starling 1 H
16. Common Hill Myna 2 H
17. Javan Myna 2 H
18. Oriental Magpie-Robin 1 H
19. Ornate Sunbird 2
20. Crimson Sunbird 3 H

Also got Asian Softshell Turtle at its usual spot.

Next, Telok Blangah Hill Park for raptor watch.

3 migratory Oriental Honey-Buzzards.

Resident dark and pale Changeable Hawk-Eagles.

Resident adult Brahminy Kite.

Migratory Amur Paradise-Flycatcher and Barn Swallow.

Resident Dollarbirds and Dark-necked Tailorbird.

Dairy Farm 12Mar22

From KH

Danny and I went to Singapore Quarry and Rufous-bellied Eagle was still around on a bare albizia.

Dark-necked Tailorbirds having a conversation: "Come with me!" "No, go away!"

Broad-handed Carpenter Bee was sipping nectar on Bengal Trumpet and getting pollened in the process, with ants hiding behind.

African Tulip in full bloom.

Next, we went to the other corner of Dairy Farm Nature Park, Wallace Education Centre. Got the male Green-backed Flycatcher.

Grey Nightjar sleeping on a tree.

Indian Cuckoo filling itself with Malayan Eggfly caterpillars.

More food behind on the host plant False Stinger (Pipturus argenteus).

Were those your babies??

Male Orange-bellied Flowerpecker also feeding on false stinger.

Can't eat those figs!

Common Palmfly also around.

Four-lined Tree Frog and its egg foam.

Petai Trail 28Nov21

From KH

It's back to Petai Trail (am and pm) for the Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, but no luck.

Got Arctic Warbler.

Dark-necked Tailorbird - rufous cap coming down to eye level.

Five-banded Flying Lizard with inflatable neck pouch!

Here's a Large Snow Flat feeding on bird shit, and a fly inching forward!

Common Disc Oakblue with diagnostic white tonal spot and step pattern in hindwing spots 4-7.

Telephone Sylvan: who call me??

2 different species of blue leaf beetles of Tribe Luperini - one with whitish feeler tips (Hoplosaenidea singaporensis), one without (species unknown).

Termite.

Spider.

Chestnut Nature Park, Dairy Farm 01May18

From KH

Con, Danny and I started the day's birding at Chestnut Nature Park.

Long-tailed Parakeets were enjoying a feast: left adult male, right juvenile.

The Dark-necked Tailorbirds were bringing food back to someone. The male shows more extensive rufous on crown and face, and darker throat. The duller female has a spider in mouth.

Other denizens here include a snail and a millipede (Anoplodesmus saussurii).

1. 1 Spotted Dove - Heard
2. 1 Asian Emerald Dove
3. 10 Pink-necked Pigeon
4. 1 Asian Koel - Heard
5. 10 dark swiftlet sp.
6. 1 Collared Kingfisher - Heard
7. 1 Dollarbird
8. 1 Lineated Barbet - Heard
9. 1 Common Flameback
10. 5 Long-tailed Parakeet
11. 2 Common Iora
12. 2 Black-naped Oriole
13. 2 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
14. 2 House Crow
15. 1 Straw-headed Bulbul - Heard
16. 1 Yellow-vented Bulbul
17. 4 Olive-winged Bulbul
18. 1 Arctic Warbler - Singing
19. 2 Dark-necked Tailorbird - Food in mouth
20. 1 Rufous-tailed Tailorbird - Heard
21. 5 Oriental White-eye
22. 4 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
23. 1 Abbott's Babbler - Heard
24. 1 Asian Fairy-bluebird
25. 20 Asian Glossy Starling
26. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
27. 6 Javan Myna
28. 3 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
29. 2 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker

Moving on to Dairy Farm, we had a Clouded Monitor high up on a palm tree!

1. 1 Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) - Heard
2. 1 Brush Cuckoo - Heard
3. 1 Dollarbird
4. 1 Black-naped Oriole
5. 1 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
6. 1 Straw-headed BulbulSensitive - Heard
7. 1 Yellow-vented Bulbul
8. 3 Olive-winged Bulbul
9. 1 Arctic Warbler
10. 1 Dark-necked Tailorbird - Heard
11. 3 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
12. 1 Asian Fairy-bluebird - Heard
13. 5 Asian Glossy Starling
14. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
15. 2 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
16. 2 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
17. 1 Crimson Sunbird
18. 1 Little Spiderhunter - Heard

Punggol Waterway Park 25Mar18

From KH

"Follow closely, ok?" said the White-breasted Waterhen to its chick.

The Long-tailed Shrike fledgling had started hunting for itself. Soon it'll moult the scaled feathers to attain the adult plumage.

Dark-necked Tailorbird - hard to see yellow vent here, but the rufous extension to below the eye is tell-tale.

The Sooty-headed Bulbuls let you get close.

Apparently this (disused?) nest had dropped off and someone put it up on a fork.

1. 4 Red Junglefowl (Domestic type)
2. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
3. 1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle - Heard
4. 7 White-breasted Waterhen
5. 6 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
6. 4 Spotted Dove
7. 1 Zebra Dove
8. 1 Pink-necked Pigeon
9. 1 Asian Koel - Heard
10. 1 Little Bronze-Cuckoo
11. 20 dark swiftlet sp.
12. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
13. 4 Collared Kingfisher
14. 2 bee-eater sp. - Heard
15. 2 Dollarbird
16. 1 Coppersmith Barbet - Heard
17. 1 Laced Woodpecker
18. 1 Common Flameback
19. 1 Rose-ringed Parakeet
20. 2 Red-breasted Parakeet
21. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone
22. 4 Common Iora
23. 2 Ashy Minivet - Heard
24. 1 Pied Triller
25. 2 Long-tailed Shrike
26. 4 Black-naped Oriole
27. 3 House Crow
28. 1 Pacific Swallow
29. 6 Sooty-headed Bulbul
30. 4 Yellow-vented Bulbul
31. 4 Common Tailorbird
32. 1 Dark-necked Tailorbird
33. 1 Oriental Magpie-Robin - Heard
34. 3 Asian Glossy Starling
35. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
36. 10 Common Myna
37. 15 Javan Myna
38. 4 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
39. 2 Plain-throated Sunbird
40. 4 Olive-backed Sunbird