Hindhede 09Aug25

From KH

Danny and I went to Hindhede Nature Park today. A visit that will not be complete without seeing any Sunda Colugo, and we saw 4!

Immature Greater Racket-tailed Drongo put on quite a show for us.

Sleepy Brown Boobook enjoying the smell outside the toilet.

Telok Blangah Forest Walk 05Sep22

From KH

I went to Telok Blangah Forest Walk and saw a pair of Crested Goshawks perched in albizia.

2 dollars, I mean Dollarbirds, in a bare tree.

Female Pink-necked Green-Pigeon feeding on fruits of Calabur Tree (Muntingia calabura).

Swinhoe's White-eye in this flowering tree. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo on a branch.

Common Birdwing fluttering around.

Sea-green Northern Jumper on palm civet scat. Hoping for some flies to come around, I guess.

Another jumping spider.

What's the hairy plant? It's Bearded Smilax (Smilax setosa).

Petai Trail, Lor Halus 27Nov21

From KH

News of rarities came fast and furious: Amur Falcon at Lorong Halus and Pale-legged Leaf Warbler at Petai Trail. Which to go for? Headed to Petai Trail in the morning to try for the Singapore-first warbler of course!

Sadly no Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, but got a Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (5 kHz call vs the former's 6 kHz).

And an Arctic Warbler.

Here's a Saturn.

Here's a caterpillar.

What are these plants?

Next stop, Halus for the Amur Falcon. Can you believe it, it's favourite hiding place is the scaffold on the flat under construction!

After lunch, it's back to Petai for another try for the Pale-legged Leaf Warbler. Bingo, got a recording but no sight.

Here's a shy Arctic Warbler.

And a not-so-shy Greater Racket-tailed Drongo.

Epiphytic algae on tree.

Punggol Promenade, Seletar East, AMK TGW 17Dec19

From KH

I went to the west end of Punggol Promenade Nature Walk for a short walk.

Common Sandpiper was still hanging around at the same stretch.

Immature male Oriental Magpie-robin looking rather scruffy.

Plantain Squirrel carrying nesting material.

Punggol Promenade Nature Walk (West End)

1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
2. Spotted Dove 5
3. Asian Koel 1 - heard
4. dark swiftlet sp. 20
5. Common Sandpiper 1
6. Great Crested Tern 3
7. Gray Heron 2
8. Striated Heron 2
9. Common Kingfisher 1
10. White-throated Kingfisher 1
11. Collared Kingfisher 1
12. Common Iora 2
13. House Crow 5
14. Large-billed Crow 2
15. Common Tailorbird 2
16. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2
17. Asian Glossy Starling 2 - heard
18. Javan Myna 10
19. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
20. Olive-backed Sunbird 2
21. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 10

Next, I headed to Seletar East and got an Oriental Pratincole.

Yellow Bittern was still at the same grass patch.

Seletar East
1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 10
2. Spotted Dove 2
3. dark swiftlet sp. 20
4. Oriental Pratincole 1
5. Yellow Bittern 1
6. Intermediate Egret 10
7. Cattle Egret 30
8. Blue-tailed Bee-eater 1
9. Sunda Woodpecker 1 - heard
10. Rose-ringed Parakeet 10
11. Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 1 - heard
12. Pied Triller 1 - male
13. Black-naped Oriole 1
14. Brown Shrike 1
15. Long-tailed Shrike 2
16. Zitting Cisticola 2 - heard
17. Barn Swallow 10
18. Common Myna 1
19. Javan Myna 20
20. Paddyfield Pipit 4

Last stop for today: Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West.

The best birds here were a group of about 8 Grey-rumped Treeswifts, which were flying over the AMK Central side. Here's one with overcast background.

A flock of Pink-necked Green-pigeons were enjoying their teabreak of fruits.

Lastly, a pair of Greater Racket-tailed Drongos, also with overcast background.

Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West

1. Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) 1 - heard
2. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 20
3. dark swiftlet sp. 1
4. Gray-rumped Treeswift 8
5. Black-naped Oriole 1 - heard
6. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 2
7. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2
8. Asian Glossy Starling 5
9. Javan Myna 20
10. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
11. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1 - heard
12. Olive-backed Sunbird 1 - heard

Henderson Waves 10Nov18

From KH

By the time I reached the bridge it was about 9:45am. Con also just reached. Seetoh, Adrian, Jerold, Zacc and others were already there.

By 2pm others have all left; I was the last man standing. From 2-3pm, more raptors came.

Oriental Honey-buzzards

Black Bazas

Japanese Sparrowhawks

But the biggest surprise was a single Greater Spotted-eagle.

Near the toilet, a flock of White-crested Laughingthrushes was foraging with a pair of Greater Racket-tailed Drongos looking on.

1. 1 Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) - Heard
2. 1 Spotted Dove
3. 2 Pink-necked Pigeon
4. 1 Asian Koel - Heard
5. 1 Indian Cuckoo
6. 10 dark swiftlet sp.
7. 2 House Swift
8. 1 Osprey
9. 121 Oriental Honey-buzzard
10. 134 Black Baza
11. 2 Changeable Hawk-Eagle
12. 1 Greater Spotted Eagle
13. 3 Chinese Sparrowhawk
14. 16 Japanese Sparrowhawk
15. 12 Accipiter sp.
16. 2 Brahminy Kite
17. 1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
18. 1 Gray-headed Fish-Eagle
19. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
20. 1 Collared Kingfisher - Heard
21. 4 Blue-throated Bee-eater
22. 1 Dollarbird
23. 1 Lineated Barbet - Heard
24. 1 Tanimbar Corella
25. 2 Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot
26. 56 Ashy Minivet
27. 2 Black-naped Oriole
28. 2 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
29. 30 Barn Swallow
30. 3 Red-rumped Swallow
31. 2 Yellow-vented Bulbul
32. 1 Dark-necked Tailorbird - Heard
33. 4 Oriental White-eye
34. 2 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
35. 6 White-crested Laughingthrush
36. 1 Asian Brown Flycatcher - Heard
37. 2 Asian Glossy Starling
38. 2 Common Hill Myna
39. 4 Javan Myna
40. 1 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker - Juvenile
41. 2 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker - Heard
42. 2 Olive-backed Sunbird
43. 1 Crimson Sunbird

Kinabatangan 12Jun18

From KH

The Malaysian Pied-fantail are still brooding the chicks.

Black-and-red Broadbills also nesting.

Slender-billed Crow and Crested Serpent-eagle fly-by.

Hooded Pittas are often heard, but today, they also showed really well.

The pair of White-fronted Falconets are still at the same place.

Oriental Darter drying itself. Not much feathers left!

Common birds: Greater Racket-tailed Drongo and Pacific Swallow.

Non-avian creatures: colourful millipede. Harvestman with cicada exoskeleton.

1. 1 Storm's Stork
2. 5 Oriental Darter
3. 1 Great Egret
4. 1 Crested Serpent-Eagle
5. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
6. 1 White-breasted Waterhen
7. 2 Green Imperial-Pigeon
8. 2 Bornean Ground-Cuckoo - Heard
9. 1 Greater Coucal
10. 1 Raffles's Malkoha - Heard
11. 1 Plaintive Cuckoo - Heard
12. 10 dark swiftlet sp.
13. 1 Red-naped Trogon - Heard
14. 1 Diard's Trogon - Heard
15. 1 Scarlet-rumped Trogon - Heard
16. 1 White-crowned Hornbill - Heard
17. 1 Rhinoceros Hornbill - Heard
18. 1 Bushy-crested Hornbill - Heard
19. 1 Black Hornbill
20. 2 Oriental Pied-Hornbill
21. 2 Blue-eared Kingfisher
22. 1 Stork-billed Kingfisher
23. 1 Collared Kingfisher - Heard
24. 4 Blue-throated Bee-eater
25. 1 Dollarbird
26. 1 Blue-eared Barbet - Heard
27. 1 Red-throated Barbet - Heard
28. 5 Long-tailed Parakeet
29. 2 White-fronted Falconet
30. 4 Black-and-red Broadbill
31. 1 Black-and-yellow Broadbill - Heard
32. 4 Hooded Pitta
33. 1 Common Iora
34. 1 Green Iora
35. 1 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
36. 4 Malaysian Pied-Fantail
37. 1 Black-naped Monarch - Heard
38. 1 Blyth's Paradise-Flycatcher - Heard
39. 10 Slender-billed Crow
40. 5 Pacific Swallow
41. 1 Yellow-vented Bulbul - Heard
42. 1 Olive-winged Bulbul
43. 1 Red-eyed Bulbul
44. 2 Ashy Tailorbird
45. 1 Bold-striped Tit-Babbler - Heard
46. 2 Chestnut-winged Babbler - Heard
47. 3 Sooty-capped Babbler - Heard
48. 4 White-chested Babbler
49. 1 White-rumped Shama - Heard
50. 2 Malaysian Blue Flycatcher
51. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
52. 50 Javan Myna
53. 1 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker - Heard
54. 1 Temminck's Sunbird - Male
55. 2 Eurasian Tree Sparrow