Bedok Reservoir Park 15Oct21

From KH

When the birds are just too far away for any positive ID, what do you do? Leave them as tern sp.

Fortunately, female Ornate Sunbird came close for positive ID.

Macrotermes carbonarius termite mounds abound here.

Seletar Dam 11Sep21

From KH

Con went to Bukit Brown, while Danny and JS went to Kusu Island. I went to Seletar Dam instead.

Female Olive-backed Sunbird

Smooth Otters

Tampines 13May21

From KH

I was at Our Tampines Hub and look who was nesting in the middle of the building! Handphone shots of female Olive-backed Sunbird nesting.

Hampstead, SBWR 27Feb21

From KH

Danny and I started the day's birding at Hampstead Wetland as a Black-naped Oriole diffusus subspecies has been reported here recently, but it wasn't here today. Instead, Con informed us that there were a few at Sungei Buloh this morning. So we headed there straight away.

By the time we reached, diffusus was nowhere to be found. But here's an Ashy Minivet.

 

A Crested Goshawk high up.

Breeding season is in full swing for sunbirds: Crimson Sunbird chick in its nest and female Olive-backed Sunbird on her nest.

Male Pink-necked Green-Pigeon taking off with nesting material in mouth.

Coney Island, Pulau Punggol, Seletar, Sengkang 21Feb21

From KH

After Hindhede, I went to Coney Island. Here's a Great Eggfly and the flower it was on, Bidens.

Drove past Pulau Punggol and saw a Peregrine Falcon hunting.

No wader at Seletar Dam. :(

At Rower's Bay, a "Rubbish-bin" White-breasted Waterhen?? Olive-backed Sunbird still nesting.

At Hampstead Wetland, this Coppersmith Barbet had food in mouth, likely for chick(s) in the nest hole.

What are these Scaly-breasted Munias up to? Probably nesting too?

Male Common Iora foraging.

Common Bluebottle puddling on the ground.

At Seletar End, there wasn't much going on, but here's a Paddyfield Pipit.

On the way home, stopped by Sengkang Riverside Park and saw this White-breasted Waterhen chick.

Seletar 16Feb21

From KH

A very short walk at Rower's Bay yield this Olive-backed Sunbird nest.

These 6 Little Egrets and a lone Intermediate Egret attracted to the food items in the dredged-up water plants.

A bunch of Javan Mynas also attracted to the same buffet.

Nothing much at Seletar Dam. Slim picking, a House Crow will have to do.

Sengkang Riverside Park 25Dec20

From KH

How to spend your Xmas? Immersed in nature of course!

The star bird here was the migrant Black-browed Reed-Warbler.

Other migrants included Asian Brown Flycatcher and Blue-tailed Bee-eater.

The residents included Collared Kingfisher with FIM and singing male Olive-backed Sunbird.

A couple of fishes.

Blue Dasher and Sweet Potato Bug.

Heavy Jumper.

1. Spotted Dove 8
2. Zebra Dove 6
3. dark swiftlet sp. 20
4. Yellow Bittern 1
5. White-throated Kingfisher 1
6. Collared Kingfisher 2
7. Blue-tailed Bee-eater 10
8. Dollarbird 1
9. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker 1 - Heard
10. Rose-ringed Parakeet 8
11. Black-naped Oriole 2
12. Common Iora 4
13. House Crow 2
14. Common Tailorbird 1 - Heard
15. Ashy Tailorbird 3 - Heard
16. Black-browed Reed Warbler 1
17. Pacific Swallow 2
18. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2
19. Arctic Warbler 1
20. Swinhoe's White-eye 2
21. Asian Glossy Starling 1
22. Common Myna 6
23. Javan Myna 30
24. Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
25. Oriental Magpie-Robin 1 - Heard
26. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 1
27. Brown-throated Sunbird 2
28. Olive-backed Sunbird 4

Rower's Bay, Seletar Dam 27Sep20

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Decided to go Seletar Dam for wader watching. But, first up, at Rower's Bay, a couple of juvenile Yellow-vented Bulbuls were begging for food.

And here's a female Blue Sprite resting on Pink Kopsia Kopsia fruticosa.

1. Masked Lapwing 2
2. Little Tern 1
3. Little Egret 4
4. Common Tailorbird 1
5. Barn Swallow 1
6. Yellow-vented Bulbul 3 - 2 juveniles begging adult for food
7. Javan Myna 10
8. Olive-backed Sunbird 1 - Male

At the dam, there wasn't much, so I entertained myself with the plants and insects. There're Purple Cleome Cleome rutidosperma (left) and Ivy Gourd Coccinia grandis (right).

Male Coastal Glider (left) and male Blue Sprite (right).

A well-camouflaged Pygmy Grass Blue.

1. Zebra Dove 2
2. Common Sandpiper 2
3. tern sp. 1- Not little flew towards reservoir
4. Gray Heron 1
5. Little Egret 2
6. Striated Heron 3
7. House Crow 3
8. Barn Swallow 1
9. Javan Myna 15

Back at Rower's Bay, I got a male Common Bluetail. Notice it looks similar to the male Blue Sprite, but the amount of blue on the thorax and abdomen are much less.

A Great Eggfly.

A cute male Ashy Tailorbird.

Female Olive-backed Sunbird on Red Leea.

House Crow with nesting material.

And friendly introduced Masked Lapwing.

1. Masked Lapwing 5 - Introduced
2. Little Tern 6
3. Great Egret 1
4. Little Egret 30
5. White-bellied Sea-Eagle 1
6. Red-breasted Parakeet 1 - Heard
7. Black-naped Oriole 1- Heard
8. Common Iora 1 - Heard
9. House Crow 2 - Carrying nesting material
10. Ashy Tailorbird 1
11. Barn Swallow 5
12. Javan Myna 30
13. Olive-backed Sunbird 2 - Pair