Lorong Halus 02Nov24

From KH

Leading Singapore Raptor Watch at Lorong Halus today.

Total 22 Black Bazas. Here're a couple from a kettle of 9 late morning.

Here's a kettle of 10 in the afternoon.

2 of total 11 Oriental Honey-Buzzards.

Other than that, just the residents, like these adult Brahminy Kites.

And this adult White-bellied Sea-Eagle high up.

Great to record a flock of 8 migrating Oriental Pratincoles.

Only 1 Pacific Swift recorded.

Blue-tailed Bee-eater flew in front of Casuarina Trees.

Rose-ringed Parakeets with Earpod Wattle (back), Sea Almond (middle) and White Leadtree (front).

Male Oriental Pied-Hornbill fly-by.

Grey Herons flanking white egret sp. (Egretta/Ardea sp.), which are too faraway to ID, but fortunately ebird has this option.

A couple of Smooth Otters having a swim.

Rain came at about 2pm. Time to pack up.

Mt Faber 19Oct24

From KH

I went with Danny to Mount Faber for raptor watch today. I looked just like any other raptor watching days, some Oriental Honey-Buzzards, some Japanese Sparrowhawks, and some unid accipitrine hawks.

Then a female Chinese Sparrowhawk.

And some Pacific Swifts.

Then came the mega. A Bat Hawk in broad daylight! What a redemption, having missed it "by a whisker" more than 15 years ago at MacRitchie!

Dawson 23Oct22

From KH

It's back to Dawson Skyville again with Danny. Good haul today.

1 juvenile Grey-faced Buzzard

1 of 10 Japanese Sparrowhawks; this one a juvenile

1 of 2 Oriental Honey Buzzards; this one a juvenile

1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle, an immature pale morph

1 Rufous-bellied Eagle, an immature

2 of 8 migrating Pacific Swifts.

Lots of dark swiftlets sp. (Aerodramus sp.)

1 of 18 migrating Eastern Red-rumped Swallows.

Large-billed Crow carrying lunch, a signal for us to break for lunch.

Dawson 09Oct22

From KH

Danny and I went to Dawson Skyville for raptor watch. Only 3 migrant raptors in the morning:

Japanese Sparrowhawk, male left, female right.

Juvenile Chinese Sparrowhawk with one dangling tail feather.

Local raptors: immature pale Changeable Hawk-Eagle, immature Grey-headed Fish-Eagle.

Migrant Pacific Swift.

After lunch, we did more raptor watch, only got 7 Oriental Honey-Buzzards and 1 accipitrinae hawk (formerly accipiter sp.): https://ebird.org/checklist/S120286833.

No birds, watch bee. Asian Honey Bee collecting nectar from this flower.

Telok Blangah Hill Park 28Oct21

From KH

Raptor watch at Telok Blangah Hill today. Great to see a couple of migrant raptors: Chinese Sparrowhawk and a Grey-faced Buzzard.

Also a migrating Pacific Swift.

When there were no migrants, residents kept the day going, such as these Black-naped Oriole, and not just 1 Dollarbird, but 4!

Pink-necked Green-Pigeons and this lone Thick-billed Green-Pigeon favoured the flowering tree.

Common Tailorbird and Yellow-vented Bulbul preferred the low Bougainvillea bush.

Javan Munias also came to join the fun.

Seletar Dam, Halus 02Apr21

From KH

Con, Danny and I went to Seletar Dam and got 5 Commmon Greenshanks. Mega!.. JS was at KNT conducting census and he got 52 Whimbrels and 1 Common Greenshank. He also reported that greenie wasn't at LCK3.

The three of us then went to Lorong Halus. Nice to see that a Little Grebe was still enjoying itself there.

The introduced Asian Golden Weavers were nesting.

So were the local Baya Weavers.

A couple of migrants: Japanese Sparrowhawk and Pacific Swift.

Here's a non-bird - Lime Butterfly.