Kranji Nature Trail, Lim Chu Kang Lane 3 26Jan19

From KH

Danny, JS, BJ and I went to the new Sungei Buloh (aka Kranji Nature Trail) today. Nothing much, but it was nice to see a Crow-billed Drongo.

1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
2. Spotted Dove 3
3. Pink-necked Pigeon 17
4. Little Bronze-Cuckoo 2
5. Banded Bay Cuckoo 1
6. swiftlet sp. 15
7. House Swift 1
8. White-breasted Waterhen 3
9. Common Sandpiper 2
10. Great Egret 11
11. Little Egret 22
12. Striated Heron 3
13. Changeable Hawk-Eagle 1
14. Brahminy Kite 1
15. Collared Kingfisher 5
16. Blue-throated Bee-eater 1
17. Lineated Barbet 2
18. Sunda Woodpecker 1
19. Rufous Woodpecker 1
20. Common Flameback 2
21. Laced Woodpecker 3
22. Rose-ringed Parakeet 2
23. Golden-bellied Gerygone 1
24. Common Iora 5
25. Ashy Minivet 4
26. Pied Triller 2
27. Black-naped Oriole 9
28. Crow-billed Drongo 1
29. Malaysian Pied-Fantail 2
30. House Crow 8
31. Barn Swallow 8
32. Pacific Swallow 2
33. Straw-headed Bulbul 1
34. Yellow-vented Bulbul 6
35. Olive-winged Bulbul 2
36. Arctic Warbler 5
37. Common Tailorbird 1
38. Ashy Tailorbird 5
39. Oriental White-eye 2
40. Asian Brown Flycatcher 4
41. Asian Glossy Starling 92
42. Daurian Starling 28
43. Javan Myna 9
44. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1
45. Plain-throated Sunbird 8
46. Copper-throated Sunbird 2
47. Olive-backed Sunbird 2

At Lim Chu Kang Lane 3 canal, there were a couple of ocularis White Wagtails.

There was also a bunch of waterbirds: female Greater Painted-snipe, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, non-breeding pond-herons and White-breasted Waterhen.

Female Greater Painted-snipe

White-breasted Waterhen

KNT, Neo Tiew, DFNP 15Dec18

From KH

1 went to Kranji Nature Trail with Danny, JS and wife. We only saw the usual birds and some Yellow-shelled Semi-slugs here.

1. 6 Spotted Dove
2. 1 Zebra Dove - Heard
3. 15 Pink-necked Pigeon
4. 1 Little Bronze-Cuckoo
5. 1 White-breasted Waterhen
6. 1 Common Sandpiper
7. 2 Gray Heron
8. 11 Little Egret
9. 5 Striated Heron
10. 2 Changeable Hawk-Eagle
11. 1 Accipiter sp.
12. 1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
13. 1 Gray-headed Fish-Eagle
14. 2 Oriental Pied-Hornbill
15. 2 White-throated Kingfisher
16. 2 Collared Kingfisher
17. 2 Blue-throated Bee-eater
18. 2 Dollarbird
19. 3 Lineated Barbet
20. 1 Sunda Woodpecker
21. 2 Common Flameback
22. 2 Red-breasted Parakeet
23. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
24. 2 Common Iora
25. 5 Ashy Minivet
26. 7 Pied Triller
27. 1 Brown Shrike
28. 5 Black-naped Oriole
29. 7 House Crow
30. 12 Pacific Swallow
31. 1 Straw-headed Bulbul
32. 3 Red-whiskered Bulbul
33. 4 Yellow-vented Bulbul
34. 2 Olive-winged Bulbul
35. 1 Arctic Warbler
36. 5 Ashy Tailorbird
37. 1 Asian Brown Flycatcher
38. 3 Oriental Magpie-Robin
39. 37 Asian Glossy Starling
40. 16 Javan Myna
41. 1 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
42. 3 Plain-throated Sunbird
43. 5 Copper-throated Sunbird
44. 6 Olive-backed Sunbird

Moving on to Neo Tiew Harvest Lane, we saw a couple of Slaty-breasted Rail chicks stuck in a canal unable to get out. Fortunately, at least one of the parents was still around to feed them.

There were a few Oriental Honey-buzzards thermaling.

1. 5 Spotted Dove
2. 2 Lesser Coucal
3. 2 Asian Koel - Heard
4. 1 Banded Bay Cuckoo - Heard
5. 30 dark swiftlet sp.
6. 3 Slaty-breasted Rail - Adult with chicks
7. 1 White-breasted Waterhen
8. 1 Common Sandpiper
9. 2 Intermediate Egret
10. 2 Black-winged Kite
11. 4 Oriental Honey-buzzard
12. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
13. 1 Japanese Sparrowhawk
14. 2 Brahminy Kite
15. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
16. 2 Blue-throated Bee-eater
17. 1 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
18. 2 Rose-ringed Parakeet
19. 5 Red-breasted Parakeet
20. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
21. 3 Common Iora
22. 1 Pied Triller
23. 2 Long-tailed Shrike
24. 1 Brown Shrike
25. 2 Black-naped Oriole
26. 1 Black Drongo
27. 1 Malaysian Pied-Fantail - Heard
28. 5 House Crow
29. 5 Barn Swallow
30. 1 Straw-headed Bulbul - Heard
31. 1 Sooty-headed Bulbul
32. 4 Yellow-vented Bulbul
33. 2 Oriental Reed Warbler - Heard
34. 2 Lanceolated Warbler - Heard
35. 1 Common Tailorbird - Heard
36. 1 Ashy Tailorbird - Heard
37. 1 Zitting Cisticola
38. 1 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler - Heard
39. 1 Siberian Stonechat (Stejneger's)
40. 5 Asian Glossy Starling
41. 5 Javan Myna
42. 2 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
43. 1 wagtail sp. - Fly by
44. 5 Golden-backed Weaver
45. 1 Scaly-breasted Munia

After lunch, a quick check at Wallace Education Centre revealed that the rufous morph Oriental Scops-owl was still around on the same branch!

1. 5 dark swiftlet sp.
2. 1 Oriental Scops-Owl - Rufous
3. 1 Dollarbird
4. 1 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo - Heard
5. 1 Dark-necked Tailorbird - Heard
6. 1 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
7. 2 Asian Glossy Starling
8. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
9. 1 Javan Myna
10. 1 Olive-backed Sunbird

Kranji Nature Trail 26Dec11

From Danny

I was there on Boxing Day late morning with Jia Sheng. Other than the Terns (Lesser and Greater), single Osprey, there were 4 Black-headed Gulls. Pretty windy condition, enough flapping to expose the tails well enough to spot dark bar on tails for two of them, pointing to 1st winter birds.

Changi, SBWR, KNT 22Oct11

From JS

Covering the area within LP149, Changi Water Treatment Plant and SBWR (including Kranji mangrove boardwalk), 1 Common Buzzard, who may be the same duty personnel as previous years, 3 OHBs and 1 Chinese Sparrowhawk. Due to good thermalling conditions and low-hanging cloud formations, we didn't really have the views needed to sex or age the sparrowhawks but could still figure out their id by the wing shape.

In case you are wondering how a 5-pixels-sized accipiter on the camera sensor could be conclusively identified, I have to admit that those five-pixels are, thankfully, just enough to make out the diagnostic wing shapes of each accipiter sp. The 7 positively-id Japanese Sparrowhawks showed distinctive rounded wings (aka bulging secondaries) with protruding 4 outer primaries while the Chinese Sparrowhawk nearly slipped by and was only recorded because it had left behind a 5-mp on my camera sensor that adequately showed the diagnostic pointed underwings with black tips.

Unlike the accipiters, the OHBs were more grounded with 3 posing nicely on the treetop at 3 different location.

As usual, the immature Brahminy Kites misled my father and I many times and had it not been Kok Hui's good call, we would had wasted more time.

In short, below is the list of raptors sighted.

1) Changeable Hawk Eagle (3, including 1 adult dark morph, 1 2nd yr(?) pale morph and 1 juvenile)
2) White-bellied Sea-Eagle (>3, including 1 juvenile)
3) Osprey (1)
4) Brahminy Kite (>5)
5) Black-winged Kite (4)
6) Japanese Sparrowhawk (>7, including a flock of 6 thermalling individuals and 1 female)
7) Chinese Sparrowhawk (1)
8) Common Buzzard (1)
9) Oriental Honey Buzzard (3, including 2 males)

In addition to the above sightings, I have a 5-mp-sized photo of a raptor which I am not sure of its id. Its size misled us to think that it was a crossing brahminy kite, one of the 4 that was heading towards the airport from the Cove. However, it lacked dark secondaries and carpals. In my opinion, it fits the id of an OHB but I would need your verification. If it is, this would be OHB no. 4.

From Danny

After Changi Cove we went over to SBWR, the rightful place to bird in the rain. We were pretty bored at KNT boardwalk until Jia Sheng whistled down a family of Golden-bellied Gerygone and started a mini bird wave. The interesting bird of the day is the Eastern Crowned Warbler seen well at both locations within 0.5 km from the coast. Personally think these were fresh arrivals and doubt they stay long unlike those in the Central Catchment.

Location: Kranji Nature Trail
Time: 4.00 pm to 5.05 pm
Tide: receding

1) Little Egret - 3
2) Little Heron - 2
3) Grey Heron - 6
4) Common Sandpiper - 3
5) Sunda woodpecker - 1
6) Lesser crested Tern - 2
7) Collared Kingfisher - 2
8) Great Egret - 4
9) Osprey - 1
10) WBSE - 2
11) Common Flameback - 2
12) Golden-bellied Gerygone - 3 (1 adult, 2 juv)
13) Eastern Crowned Warbler - >1
14) Arctic Warbler - 1
15) Pied Triller - 2
16) Brown throated sunbird - 1
17) Eclipse Olive-backed sunbird - 1
18) Stork-billed Kingfisher - 1
19) Large-billed crow - 5
20) Oriental white-eye - 6
21) Asian Paradise Flycatcher - 2
22) Asian Brown Flycatcher - 2
23) Dollarbird - 2
24) Common Redshanks - 6 in flight

Kranji Nature Trail 25Sep11

From Danny

Time 4.50 pm to 6.35 pm
Tide : High


1) Little Tern - 2
2) Little Heron - 4
3) Grey Heron - 11
4) Common Sandpiper - 5
5) Sunda woodpecker - 3
6) Great Cormorant - 4
7) Collared Kingfisher - 2
8) Little Bronze Cuckoo - 1
9) Cattle Egret - 1

Kranji Nature Trail 7Aug11

From Danny

Date: 7 Aug '11
Location: Kranji Nature Trail
Time: 5.30 - 6.55 pm
Tide: High

1) Little Tern - 6
2) Little Heron - 1
3) Grey Heron - 6
4) Common Sandpiper - 2
5) Common Flameback - 2
6) WBSE - 3
7) Collared Kingfisher - 2
8) Little Bronze Cuckoo - 1

Kranji Nature Trail 17Jul11

From Danny

Date: 17 July'11
Location: Kranji Nature Trail
Time: 5.35 - 6.50 pm
Tide: Low

1) Osprey - 1
2) Little Heron - 1
3) Grey Heron - 6
4) AG Starling - 5
5) Common Flameback - 1
6) WBSE - 1
7) Collared Kingfisher - 2
8) Cattle Egret - 1
9) Little Tern - 2
10) Ashy Tailorbird - 2
11) Pied Fantail - 1
12) Pacific Swallow - 5

Kranji Nature Trail 26Jun11

From Danny

Date: 26 June 11
Location: Kranji Nature Trail
Time 4.45 - 6.05 pm
Tide: High

1) Milky Stork - 1
2) Little Heron - 1
3) Grey Heron - 11
4) Asian Glossy Starling - 4
5) Common Flameback - 1
6) White-bellied Sea Eagle - 3 adults
7) Collared Kingfisher - 2
8) Brahminy Kite - 1
9) Little Tern - 1
10) Oriental White-eye - 1
11) Copper-throated Sunbird - 1 male
12) Oriental Dollarbird - 1
13) Pacific Swallow - 4

Labrador Park, KNT 8May11

From Danny

Location: Labrador coastal point
Time: 9.15 am to 11.15 am
Tide: Low

1) Black-naped Tern - 5 (Refer to pic., pair seen removing rust scraps from buoy ? 4 birds foraging at shutdown fishing jetty)
2) Magpie Robin - 1
3) Collared Kingfisher - 2
4) Little Terns - 2 (Refer to pic., poo stains indicated around for some time)

Black-naped Terns


Little Terns

Location: Kranji Nature Trail
Time 5.15 pm to 6.35 pm
Tide : Receding

1) Osprey - 1
2) Little Egret - 1
3) Grey Heron - 8
4) AG Starling - 5
5) Sunda pygmy woodpecker - 1
6) WBSE - 2 (adults )
7) Collared Kingfisher - 2
8) Great Egret - 4
9) Little Tern - 3
10) Striated Heron - 1
11) Copper throated Sunbird - 3, Female feeding 2 chicks on nest (Thx to John Kinman for direction)

Labrador Park, KNT 17Apr11

From Danny

Location: Labrador
coastal point
Time: 9.15 am to 10.35 am
Tide: high

1) Cattle Egret - 1 (breeding plumages)
2) Magpie Robin - 1
3) Collared Kingfisher - 2
4) Brahminy Kite - 1 (sub-adult)
5) Chinese Pond Heron - 8 (most in breeding plumages)
6) WBSE - 1 (fishing off Angsana tree, caught 1 m long eel)

Location: Kranji Nature Trail
Time: 5.30 pm to 6.45 pm
Tide: low

1) Asian brown flycatcher - 1
2) Little Egret - 2
3) Grey Heron - 8
4) AG Starling - 6
5) Sunda pygmy woodpecker - a pair roosting in separate holes on Bakau pole
6) WBSE - 2 (adult and sub-adult)
7) Collared Kingfisher - 4 (a pair nesting)
8) Common sandpiper - 1

Kranji Nature Trail 27Mar11

From Danny

Time: 4.35 pm to 5.55 pm
Tide: high (light drizzle)

1) Greater Egret - 12
2) Little Egret - 2
3) Grey Heron - 19
4) AG Starling - 7
5) Little Heron - 1
6) WBSE - 2
7) Collared Kingfisher - 3

Labrador Park, Earth Trail, KNT 20Feb11

From Danny

Location: Labrador coastal point
Time: 9.15 am to 10.30 am
Tide: rising

1) Common Sandpiper - 3
2) Little Heron - 1
3) Collared Kingfisher - 1 pair
4) Brahminy Kite - 2
5) WBSE - 1
6) Little Bronze Cuckoo - 1

Location: Kranji Nature Trail
Time: 4.45pm to 6.00 pm
Tide: receding

1) Great Egret - 11
2) Little Egret - 25
3) Grey Heron - 16
4) Oriental Pied Hornbill - 2
5) Osprey - 2 (one bird hunting along Johor Straits and feeding on fish atop Bakau stilt)
6) WBSE - 3
7) Collared Kingfisher - 3
8) AG Starling - 6 (pairing up on Bakau stilts)
9) Common Sandpiper - 1

Went to Earth Trail (Mt Faber) after Labrador Land Point count, to look for Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker nest. No luck. At around 11.40 am, heard commotions from the GRT Drongos and Mynas, saw two raptors, one larger than the other flew into the albizia woodlands. As the bigger raptor was nearer, went up to the walking canopy for closer look and found a sub-adult OHB. After ten minutes it flew off but no sign of the other raptor. On the way out, saw a raptor perched about 100 ft up and 80 ft away, from bins spotted spotted thick rufous streaks on breast. Went back to car to get my scope and raptor was still around.

The short crest and distinct breast and belly barrings confirmed a Crested Goshawk, grey face/headsides with long and unbroken mesial stripe - adult male.

Refer to 3rd pic, the fine barring on the thigh separates it from Besra (wish it was one) and the fan out tail looks like he has round tail not square.

Kranji Nature Trail 30Jan11

From Danny

Only managed to catch the 5 pm window for an hour at the boardwalk of Kranji Nature Trail.

Date: 30 Jan'11
Time: 5.05 pm to 6.05 pm
Tide: Rising

1) Grey Heron - 6 (perched on Kelong)
2) Asian Glossy Starling - 6 (a pair checking out bakau trunk for nesting hole)
3) Little Egret - 2 (flew across to Johor)
4) Great Egret - 1 (flew over to Johor)
5) Collared Kingfisher - 2
6) Common Sandpiper - 1
7) WB Sea Eagle - 2 (1 adult; 1 immature)

Poyan, KNT 10Aug09

From Danny

This morning intended to bird in Poyan but was drizzling on arrival. Decided not to enter Poyan due to continuous stream of trucks despite the Public Holiday. Interesting sighting was a Slaty-breasted Rail on the roadside next to my car for a good 2 minute, however no camera with me.

Continue to Kranji Nature Trail to check out the BW Pitta. No sign of Pitta. On the way out spot this bird on the trail. It is a juvenile Emerald Dove.

Keppel Hill, KNT 19Jul09

From Danny

On Sunday afternoon, again at Keppel Hill saw a pair of Red-billed Blue Magpie, could be the same pair I seen last year - very much alive and noisy as ever.

In the evening, drop by the Blue-winged Pitta site at Kranji Nature Trail, from what I saw and heard, likely the pair are breeding.

SBWR, KNT, NSRCC 13Sep08

From KH

Today, we finally got our first rare wader of the season - the Great Knot - at SBWR.

A single Great Knot with Common Greenshanks ©Danny Lau

Male Emerald Dove ©Danny Lau

Male Yellow-rumped Flycatcher ©Tan KH

Have problem with shoe laces, learn from Common Tailorbird ©Danny Lau

At the KNT boardwalk, there were 8 Great Crested Terns at the kelong. At NSRCC, we got about 20 Grey Wagtails and about 20 Little Ringed Plovers in the fields. As for Little Ringed Plover, to be Common Ringed Plover, the bill needs to be thicker and more orangy for the legs ©Danny Lau

Stagmont, Mandai Mudflat, Kranji, Warren, Little Guilin 2Aug08

Today's birding as below.

Main Highlights are:
1. Brahminy kite feeding on an eel/snake at Mandai Mudflat, and bird in talon at Warren.
2. Great Cormorant sunning itself with wings wide open at Mandai Mudflat.
3. Indian Silverbills at Kranji Nature Trail.
4. Early waders (2 Common Sandpipers) at SBWR.
5. 1 Smooth Otter at SBWR.
6. 4 Wild Pigs are Warren.
7. 5 species of raptors today, including the GHFEs at Little Guilin.

CCK (Stagmont Camp)
1. Sunda Woodpecker
2. Common Goldenback 2
3. Lineated Barbet 1
4. Asian Koel
5. Greater Coucal 1
6. Long-tailed Parakeet
7. Red-breasted Parakeet
8. Swiftlet spp.
9. Golden-bellied Gerygone heard
10. House Crow
11. Black-naped Oriole
12. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 1
13. Common Iora
14. Asian Glossy Starling
15. Common Myna
16. Javan Myna
17. Pacific Swallow
18. Yellow-vented Bulbul
19. Oriental White-eye >5
20. Common Tailorbird
21. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
22. Plain-throated Sunbird
23. Olive-backed Sunbird
24. Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Sungei Buloh
25. Common Sandpiper 2

Mandai Mudflat
26. Collared Kingfisher
27. Rock Pigeon
28. Brahminy Kite 2
29. Great Cormorant 1
30. Little Egret 1
31. Grey Heron
32. Striated Heron
33. Pied Fantail 1

Kranji Dam/Transmission Towers
34. Little Tern 2
35. White-bellied Sea-eagle 1 adult, 1 juv
36. Cattle Egret 1

Kranji Nature Trail
37. Dollarbird
38. White-throated Kingfisher
39. Blue-throated Bee-eater
40. Pink-necked Green-pigeon
41. Pied Triller
42. Ashy Tailorbird
43. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird 1
44. Indian Silverbill >10

Warren
45. Coppersmith Barbet 1
46. Lesser Coucal 1
47. Spotted Dove
48. Zebra Dove
49. White-breasted Waterhen
50. Red-wattled Lapwing 4
51. Changeable Hawk-eagle 1 dark
52. Zitting Cisticola heard
53. Yellow-bellied Prinia heard
54. Baya Weaver with nests
55. Javan Munia 2
56. Scaly-breasted Munia

Little Guilin
57. House Swift
58. Oriental Honey-buzzard 1 pale
59. Grey-headed Fish-eagle 1 adult, 1 juv
60. White-crested Laughingthrush heard

Photos from Danny

The Great Cormorant, non breeding, was sunning itself, very critical to keep dry before the next dive, dry plumages trapped air to maintain buoyancy. Look at the web feet, like giant paddles.

The prey of the Brahminy Kite looks like an eel. Maximum zoom.

Don't you dare laugh at my hairdo! Try posing at this height. I need stronger gel. (Grey-headed Fish-eagle)

Kranji Nature Trail 18Jul08

From Con

Taken this morning, at the location mentioned in Pauline Lee's report at Kranji Nature Trail. Probably tomorrow there will be many birders & photograhers looking! There are 2 Blue-winged Pittas, and they are calling rather often, making them a bit easier to find.

Sime Forest, SBWR, Kranji 03Nov07

From KH

The day started with me picking up an injured juvenile Schrenck's Bittern at the void deck of my multi-storey carpark at Sengkang.

Upon reaching Rifle Range at 7 am, I showed the bird to Danny and we decided to bring it to BTNR where Con was conducting his course. It was then that Danny thought of passing the injured bird to the ranger there. The poor bird had a missing right wing but when I picked it up, there was no blood. Moreover, it looked like it had a broken leg too. We looked at the plight of the bird in dismay...

Schrenck's Bittern ©Tan KH

By the time we arrived back at Rifle Range, it was 0740h. The first interesting birds were 2 cuckoos - the Drongo Cuckoo was confirmed, while a Violet Cuckoo was possible as it was hiding behind branches. Then, the first bird wave hit us. It consisted of Arctic Warblers, 1 Eastern Crowned Warbler and 1 Asian Paradise-flycatcher. A fruiting tree on the way to the Jelutong Tower attracted 4 Red-eyed Bulbuls and 1 Asian Brown Flycatcher. Along the track, we got to see the Arctic Warblers, Asian Paradise-flycatchers and Asian Brown Flycatchers a few times more. At the tower, a male Asian Fairy Bluebird flew across the canopy. Except for Arctic Warbler and Asian Brown Flycatcher, we missed all these birds during the race. Where were they hiding back then? At the reservoir, a pale morph Changeable Hawk-eagle perched high on a treetop. Other than these birds, a Green Crested Lizard, a Clouded Monitor and some Papilio butterflies made the quiet trail less disappointing.

Lunch was nasi lemak at Sungei Buloh again. There were mostly redshanks at the main hide, but it was nice to see a pair of Magpie Robins, which we missed during the race. Most of the waders were at Hide 1C. Sieving through the Whimbrels for the Bar-tailed Godwits gave us our a stunning curlew instead. It was a big guy compared to the whimbrels. The only birds which could push it around here were the Little Egrets. Later, it was confirmed to be a Far Eastern Curlew! A global lifer for both of us!

Far Eastern Curlew ©Danny Lau

The godwits were present as well. Shifting attention to the sand-plovers, we tried to sieve through them for the Greater Sand Plover, but to no avail.

Lesser Sand-plover ©Danny Lau

Next, through the curlew sandpipers, we hoped to get a broad-billed sandpiper. No sign of the latter, but we picked out a petite little guy, which had slightly shorter bill and slightly different plumage. This was later confirmed by David Bakewell to be a 1st winter curlew sandpiper moulting out of its juvenile plumage while retaining its juvenile wing covert.

Curlew Sandpiper ©Danny Lau

We were at 1C for more than an hour, maybe two, until the dog started barking at the waders scaring the curlew and whimbrels away. The whimbrels came back after circling a few rounds above, but the curlew was gone...

And so we left Buloh for NTL2 hoping to get the sand martin and crested goshawk. Bad luck, the gantry was down... The decision then was to take Kranji Nature Trail and see what we could get. We did see the two common woodpeckers that we missed during the race - Sunda Pygmy and Laced. The former was on the wooden stilt at the boardwalk, exactly the same place we saw it 1 week before the race! Where was it hiding on Race Day??

The day ended with 72 birds heard and seen. The Far Eastern Curlew being the bird of the day.

Sengkang
1 Schrenck's bittern, juv, injured

Sime Forest
2 Oriental dollarbird
3 Common goldenback, heard
4 Banded woodpecker, heard
5 Blue-tailed bee-eater
6 Drongo cuckoo, 1
7 Violet cuckoo, 1 possible
8 Long-tailed parakeet, big flocks
9 Swiftlet spp.
10 Pink-necked green-pigeon
11 Changeable hawk-eagle, 1 pale morph
12 Oriental honey-buzzard, 1 in flight
13 Asian fairy-bluebird, 1 male
14 Greater racket-tailed drongo
15 Common hill myna
16 Barn swallow
17 Pacific swallow
18 Asian paradise-flycatcher, 3
19 Asian brown flycatcher, 3
20 Arctic warbler, many
21 Eastern crowned warbler, 1
22 Dark-necked tailorbird
23 Common tailorbird
24 Striped tit babbler
25 Red-eyed bulbul, 4
26 Olive-winged bulbul
27 Yellow-vented bulbul
28 Orange-bellied flowerpecker
29 Scarlet-backed flowerpecker
30 Brown-throated sunbird

En-route to SBWR
31 Common pigeon
32 White-vented myna
33 Common myna
34 House crow
35 Brown shrike

Drain outside SBWR
36 Wood sandpiper
37 White-breasted waterhen
38 Scaly-breasted munia

SBWR
39 Collared kingfisher
40 White-throated kingfisher
41 Asian koel, heard
42 Zebra dove
43 Far Eastern curlew, 1
44 Bar-tailed godwit, 2
45 Whimbrel
46 Common sandpiper
47 Marsh sandpiper
48 Curlew sandpiper
49 Common redshank
50 Common greenshank
51 Pacific golden-plover
52 Lesser sand-plover
53 Striated heron
54 Little egret
55 Asian glossy starling
56 Ashy tailorbird
57 Oriental magpie robin
58 Crimson sunbird

Kranji
59 Fork-tailed swift
60 Osprey, 1
61 White-bellied sea-eagle, 1
62 Spotted dove

NTL2 entrance
63 Black-winged kite, 1

Kranji Nature Trail
64 Sunda pygmy woodpecker
65 Laced woodpecker
66 Lesser crested tern
67 Great crested tern
68 Grey heron
69 Great egret
70 Golden-bellied gerygone, heard
71 Black-naped oriole
72 Paddyfield pipit

Poyan, KNT, West Coast 6Jan07

I went to look for the Jerdon's Baza at Poyan with Sree, Albert, Danny, JS, Kong, PC, but none was seen.

After that, we proceeded to Kranji Nature Trail to look for Black-headed Gulls since it was high tide and they were expected to be at the kelong. Sure enough they were there with the Lesser Crested Terns.

In the afternoon, we went to West Coast to look for Blue-winged & Hooded Pittas and Orange-headed Thrush, but found >10 Lesser Whistling-ducks instead. Con, Horst, James and a few others were here and they reported someone has made a sighting early in the morning but none since. So they decided to adjourned to the Muslim cemetery where the Jerdon's Baza had been sighted on Thu, while PC and I had to leave.

Later on Danny told me they did not manage to see the baza.

Juvenile Oriental Honey-buzzard ©Sree