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.

SBWR 26Sep20

From KH

After lunch, I went back to the old Sungei Buloh and saw Tailless, the huge Estuarine Crocodile, taking an afternoon dip.

A smaller Estuarine Crocodile was basking on the mudflat, while a Milky Stork kept its distance.

Cotton Stainer Bug Dysdercus decussatus nymphs big and small.

1. Whimbrel 110
2. Common Redshank 5
3. Milky Stork 8 - Free ranging
4. Painted Stork 4 - Free ranging
5. Gray Heron 2
6. Great Egret 1
7. Little Egret 10
8. Collared Kingfisher 1
9. Lineated Barbet 1 - Heard
10. Black-naped Oriole 1
11. House Crow 2
12. Ashy Tailorbird 2
13. Yellow-vented Bulbul 1

Next up, the new Sungei Buloh.

Here are a couple of St Andrew's Cross Spiders - Argiope dang (left) and A. versicolor (right).

Here's a pair of Oval St Andrew's Cross Spiders A. aemula - the male is the tiny one.

Here's a jumping spider Hyllus diardi.

Another jumping spider Epocilla praetextata (one white stripe on the face compared to two for the more common E. calcarata).

Oriental Blue Dasher - a blue dragonfly with brown thorax sides.

Grenadier - a dragonfly with red abdomen top, black abdomen bottom and black tail.

Male Common Bluetail - a damselfly with black-and-green thorax and blue tail.

Striped Nomia Nomia strigata

A yellow bug walking past an ant.

Blue Glassy Tiger

Pelopidas

Chestnut Bob

Moth

Hoverfly Dideopsis and lagoon fly Eristalinus.

Fly

Stilt-legged flies mating.

Carinate Locust Trilophidia annulata and Japanese Rice Grasshopper Oxya japonica.

Pseudoxya diminuta

Nisitrus malaya - adult and nymph

Conocephalus cognatus

A long-horned grasshopper.

A couple of Ricanula planthoppers - R. sublimata (left) and R. stigmatica (right)

Other planthoppers - unID (left) and Elasmoscelis perforata.

Striated Heron

Common Iora

Used Baya Weaver nests.

1. Spotted Dove 4
2. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 1
3. dark swiftlet sp. 1
4. White-breasted Waterhen 2 - Heard
5. Gray Heron 1
6. Little Egret 12
7. Striated Heron 2
8. White-bellied Sea-Eagle 1
9. White-throated Kingfisher 1 - Heard
10. bee-eater sp. 1
11. Lineated Barbet 2
12. Red-breasted Parakeet 1 - Heard
13. Black-naped Oriole 2
14. Common Iora 2
15. House Crow 5
16. Ashy Tailorbird 3
17. Pacific Swallow 1
18. Yellow-vented Bulbul 3
19. Olive-winged Bulbul 1 - Heard
20. Swinhoe's White-eye 10
21. Asian Glossy Starling 3
22. Javan Myna 3
23. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1 - Heard
24. Olive-backed Sunbird 2
25. Baya Weaver 0 - Used nests