Kent Ridge Park, Dawson 16Oct21

From KH

News of a Spotted Flycatcher (first spotted on 15 Oct 2021) broke and the birding fraternity was all on site at Kent Ridge Park on 16 Oct 2021 for this Singapore-first. The bird went on to stay for a couple of weeks.

After having enough of the flycatcher, we made a move and got a thermaling Oriental Honey-Buzzard.

Over to Dawson Skyville for raptor watch, and Grey-rumped Treeswifts (male left, female right) were at the carpark to welcome us.

We got the usual OHB and accipiters. Here's one of the OHBs.

Henderson Waves, Kent Ridge Park 20Dec17

From KH

I went to Henderson Waves for raptor watch and only saw these migrant raptors: 7 OHBs, 2 CSH and 3 JSH.

These are the OHBs:

The CSHs:

The JSHs:

The resident CHEs: 2 pale, 1 dark.

An adult Brahminy Kite.

Here's a Large-billed Crow.

A Black-naped Oriole.

One of the ever present swiftlets.

Next, at Kent Ridge Park, I took a short walk to Bukit Chandu. The only migrant raptor seen was a JSH.

Tuas, Kent Ridge 6Nov13

From GC

Saw the female Common Kestrel at end of Tuas South Ave 5 on 061113 morning 1100 hrs. unfortunately, couldn't stay to get more shots due to some testing of military equipment there.

And a Japanese Sparrowhawk at Kent Ridge Park at 1400 hrs.

Southern Ridges, SBWR, NTL2 23Jan11

From KH

Today, Dingli and I surveyed the Southern Ridges for CHE nests. We started off at Kent Ridge, but the place only gave us separately 1 Japanese Sparrowhawk and 1 Brahminy Kite in flight. Next at Telok Blangah, we did not see any raptor. While walking to Mt Faber on the Henderson Wave, 2 OHBs flew above us towards TB. At MF, we were glad to locate the old nest with a CHE hiding in the nest! We believe it was incubating.

As Dingli got news of a Caspian Tern at Mandai Mudflat, we headed there and got a pale CHE flying high above the railway track on Kranji Road. At MM, the tide was already quick high and so there was not a single tern around. We went over to the coffeeshop for lunch and met Kim Keang and gang there.

After lunch, I decided to carry on birding at SBWR. There was only an Osprey perching at the kelong visible from the boardwalk outside SBWR carpark.

Moving on to NTL2, I was surprised to locate 2 nests. A pair of GHFE were perching above their nest. Within 100 m before the GHFE nest, a pale CHE was sitting in its nest. I believe this was the same nest we saw a couple of seasons back. This CHE remained in the nest calling from time to time, while another pale CHE circled around me a couple of times.