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, Thomson Nature Park 05Mar22

From KH

It's back to Petai Trail with Danny, but still no pale-legged. Got Lesser Mousedeer!

Saw this Southeast Asian Softshell Turtle at the same spot again.

Male Crimson Sunbird caught an insect? spider?

Definitely not this Malayan Five Ring or this Telephone Sylvan.

Nor this handsome fungus beetle larva or this male Two-striped Telamonia.

Heard there was an Oriental Scops-Owl at Thomson Nature Park, so that was where we went next.

The mulberry fruits were attracting frugivores, such as this Olive-winged Bulbul and this female Orange-bellied Flowerpecker.

Mulberry is a term used for various species of trees which do not even belong to the same family. This one is Pipturus argenteus, sometimes called White Mulberry, confusing with Morus alba. It is sometimes called Australian Mulberry, confusing with Hedycarya angustifolia. I love the name False Stinger, as it's unique and the species doesn't sting despite being in the Nettle family (Family Urticaceae).

Panti 23Jun18

From KH

Today, Con, Danny, Rob Arnold and I went to Panti after a long hiatus. One of our targets today was the blue morph Rufous-winged Philentoma, and sure enough he was around, so was his mate.

A nearby tree seemed to be a woodpecker magnet. We had a couple of White-bellied Woodpeckers, a banded Woodpecker and a Buff-rumped Woodpecker, all visiting it!

At another spot, Checker-throated Woodpeckers showed well, so did a male Red-naped Trogon.

A couple of bulbuls - Black-headed Bulbul and juvenile Buff-vented Bulbul.

Can you tell this is a White-bellied Erpornis?

And this, a Moustached Babbler?

A faraway Dark-throated Oriole didn't make things easy either.

Luckily, the female Blue-winged Leafbird and male Orange-bellied Flowerpecker were more forthcoming, mainly due to the roadside fruit.

1. 1 Crested Partridge - Heard
2. 1 Great Argus - Heard
3. 1 Red Junglefowl
4. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Pale
5. 3 Spotted Dove
6. 2 Asian Emerald Dove - Heard
7. 2 Little Green-Pigeon
8. 2 Chestnut-bellied Malkoha
9. 1 Violet Cuckoo
10. 1 Plaintive Cuckoo - Heard
11. 1 Blyth's Frogmouth - Heard
12. 10 dark swiftlet sp.
13. 2 Whiskered Treeswift
14. 1 Red-naped Trogon - Male
15. 1 Diard's Trogon - Male
16. 2 Scarlet-rumped Trogon - Heard
17. 1 Rufous-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher - Heard
18. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
19. 2 Rufous-collared Kingfisher
20. 1 Red-bearded Bee-eater - Heard
21. 1 Blue-throated Bee-eater
22. 5 Sooty Barbet
23. 2 Blue-eared Barbet
24. 3 Red-crowned Barbet
25. 2 Yellow-crowned Barbet - Heard
26. 2 White-bellied Woodpecker
27. 1 Banded Woodpecker
28. 5 Checker-throated Woodpecker
29. 2 Buff-rumped Woodpecker
30. 1 Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot
31. 1 Banded Broadbill - Heard
32. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
33. 2 Rufous-winged Philentoma
34. 1 Green Iora - Heard
35. 1 Lesser Cuckooshrike
36. 4 White-bellied Erpornis
37. 2 Dark-throated Oriole
38. 2 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
39. 1 Black-naped Monarch - Heard
40. 1 Blyth's Paradise-Flycatcher
41. 1 Malaysian Rail-babbler - Heard
42. 5 Black-headed Bulbul
43. 2 Yellow-vented Bulbul
44. 1 Olive-winged Bulbul
45. 2 Red-eyed Bulbul
46. 1 Hairy-backed Bulbul
47. 1 Yellow-bellied Bulbul
48. 1 Buff-vented Bulbul
49. 1 Streaked Bulbul
50. 2 Dark-necked Tailorbird
51. 1 Yellow-bellied Prinia
52. 2 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
53. 1 Chestnut-rumped Babbler - Heard
54. 1 Gray-headed Babbler
55. 1 Moustached Babbler
56. 1 Sooty-capped Babbler - Heard
57. 1 Black-capped Babbler - Heard
58. 1 Horsfield's Babbler - Heard
59. 1 Asian Fairy-bluebird - Male
60. 2 Oriental Magpie-Robin
61. 2 White-rumped Shama
62. 1 White-crowned Forktail
63. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
64. 2 Javan Myna
65. 1 Greater Green Leafbird - Female
66. 1 Lesser Green Leafbird - Male
67. 1 Blue-winged Leafbird - Female
68. 1 Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker
69. 3 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
70. 2 Little Spiderhunter
71. 1 Paddyfield Pipit

Dairy Farm Nature Park 29May18

From KH

Danny, JS, BJ and I went Wallace Education Centre today.

This immature Asian Fairy-bluebird refused to come down.

An adult Greater Racket-tailed Drongo was on a low perch.

This Little Spiderhunter was singing away.

This juvenile Orange-bellied Flowerpecker was enjoying the False Curry Leaf Tree fruits.

While this adult will take any fruits!

This adult Olive-winged Bulbul had a ring on it, but the juvenile did not.

This adult male Pink-necked Green-pigeon showing of his chestnut vent.

A flock of free-ranging storks were circling up high.

This Slender Squirrel was very active!

A forest snail Cyclophorus perdix.

Another one Hemiplecta humphreysiana.

Camponotus ants and their nest.

Other denizens here include this high-climbing Rusty Millipede and this Nephila kuhlii.

1. 4 Milky Stork - A free ranging flock of Painted and Milky Storks
2. 5 Painted Stork - A free ranging flock of Painted and Milky Storks
3. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
4. 1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
5. 10 Pink-necked Pigeon
6. 1 Banded Bay Cuckoo - Heard
7. 1 Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo - Heard
8. 20 dark swiftlet sp.
9. 1 Red-crowned Barbet
10. 1 Lineated Barbet - Heard
11. 1 Banded Woodpecker - Heard
12. 1 Common Iora - Heard
13. 4 Black-naped Oriole
14. 2 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
15. 1 Pacific Swallow
16. 1 Straw-headed Bulbul - Heard
17. 3 Yellow-vented Bulbul
18. 4 Olive-winged Bulbul
19. 1 Red-eyed Bulbul
20. 1 Common Tailorbird - Heard
21. 1 Dark-necked Tailorbird - Heard
22. 1 Rufous-tailed Tailorbird - Heard
23. 5 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
24. 2 Asian Fairy-bluebird
25. 10 Asian Glossy Starling
26. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
27. 5 Javan Myna
28. 1 Blue-winged Leafbird - Male
29. 2 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker - Male & Female
30. 1 Plain-throated Sunbird - Female
31. 1 Crimson Sunbird - Immature male
32. 1 Van Hasselt's Sunbird
33. 1 Olive-backed Sunbird
34. 2 Little Spiderhunter