Neo Tiew 24Dec22

From KH

Started off at Kranji Marsh with Danny. Pretty quiet for birds, but good for other animals.

Scarlet Grenadier, male and female.

Great Eggfly.

Lots of these reddish craneflies hiding under this concrete structure.

Chalcotropis sp. spider

This snail was previously named Helicarion perfragilis, but it was found that it may not even by in the right genus, hence it was swapped into Family Helicarionidae. Recently, it seems to be determined to be in genus Durgella instead according to inaturalist sightings. So what is it really?

Moluccan Albizia towering over African Tulips.

Throw in some moss for good measure.

Next, Neo Tiew Harvest Lane. Not just one, but two Sand Martins (aka Bank Swallows), shown here with an Eastern Red-rumped Swallow.

Lots of Eastern Red-rumped Swallows, gate-crashing every photo: "dark swiftlet sp., I'm faster than you!"

Another Eastern Red-rumped Swallow: "Hey, Javan Myna, where's the best hawker dish?"

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.

Marina East 29Dec21

From KH

I continued today at Marina East from yesterday's search for Siberian House-Martin, but still no luck. Nice to see Watercock and Baillon's Crake.

Can you spot the shy Greater Painted-Snipe?

White-breasted Waterhen chick was much bolder!

Medium Egret caught a Garden Supple Skink.

Little Egret ready to strike.

A flock of 13 Masked Lapwings.

Tweeddale morph Oriental Honey-Buzzard looking for honey?

No martin, but got Eastern Red-rumped Swallow.

I was shooting this Dingy Bushbrown and didn't realize that there were Anoplodesmus saussurii millipedes on the left and an ant on the right until after reviewing the photo.

Similarly, too focused on shooting this Common Bluetail and did not see the ant at the bottom right.

The other insects caught on my sensors were Henosepilachna ladybird and Common Scarlet.

The common plants here: Broad-leaved Carpetgrass and Mimosa.

White Leadtree.

Water Dead-and-Awake.

Changi, Pasir Ris Park 23Dec17

From KH

Danny, JS, CH and I went Changi in the morning before adjourning to Pasir Ris Park.

A Great-billed Heron at the lagoon.

What's left of a sea urchin.

Resident birds: Paddyfield Pipit and Large-billed Crow.

There were a good number of the introduced Red-whiskered Bulbuls.

Red-rumped Swallows were quite common here.

There were also many White-shouldered (lower right) and Daurian Starlings.

The raptors present today include this Oriental Honey-buzzard that was sunning itself (left) and this Black Baza.

Lastly, an Atopos slug to round up the birding here.

At Pasir Ris Park, the star birds were these Indian Cuckoo and Buffy Fish-owl.

No forgetting the supporting cast of Arctic Warbler and Black-naped Oriole.

Changi

1. 1 Red Junglefowl
2. 1 Gray Heron
3. 1 Great-billed Heron
4. 3 Black-shouldered Kite
5. 4 Oriental Honey-buzzard
6. 4 Black Baza
7. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle
8. 2 Japanese Sparrowhawk
9. 1 Brahminy Kite
10. 1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
11. 1 White-breasted Waterhen
12. 1 Red-wattled Lapwing
13. 1 Common Sandpiper
14. 2 Red Collared-Dove
15. 7 Spotted Dove
16. 5 Zebra Dove
17. 8 Pink-necked Pigeon
18. 3 Lesser Coucal
19. 1 Asian Koel
20. 5 dark swiftlet sp.
21. 1 Common Kingfisher
22. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
23. 3 Collared Kingfisher
24. 2 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
25. 1 Dollarbird
26. 30 Red-breasted Parakeet
27. 1 Monk Parakeet
28. 2 Golden-bellied Gerygone
29. 1 Common Iora
30. 1 Ashy Minivet
31. 1 Pied Triller
32. 2 Long-tailed Shrike
33. 4 Black-naped Oriole
34. 2 Large-billed Crow
35. 2 Pacific Swallow
36. 8 Red-rumped Swallow
37. 10 Red-whiskered Bulbul
38. 5 Yellow-vented Bulbul
39. 4 Zitting Cisticola
40. 2 Common Tailorbird
41. 2 Ashy Tailorbird
42. 2 Yellow-bellied Prinia
43. 1 Oriental Magpie-Robin
44. 26 Daurian Starling
45. 22 White-shouldered Starling
46. 30 Javan Myna
47. 2 Olive-backed Sunbird
48. 6 Paddyfield Pipit
49. 2 Baya Weaver
50. 10 Lonchura sp.

Pasir Ris Park

1. 5 Red Junglefowl (Domestic type)
2. 10 Gray Heron
3. 10 Little Egret
4. 1 Striated Heron
5. 1 Oriental Honey-buzzard
6. 2 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
7. 11 Spotted Dove
8. 2 Asian Koel
9. 1 Indian Cuckoo
10. 1 Buffy Fish-Owl
11. 1 Common Kingfisher
12. 1 Stork-billed Kingfisher
13. 1 White-throated Kingfisher
14. 2 Collared Kingfisher
15. 2 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
16. 1 Common Flameback
17. 2 Red-breasted Parakeet
18. 2 Common Iora
19. 1 Brown Shrike
20. 4 Black-naped Oriole
21. 2 Yellow-vented Bulbul
22. 4 Arctic Warbler
23. 3 Ashy Tailorbird
24. 5 Oriental White-eye
25. 2 Asian Brown Flycatcher
26. 2 Javan Myna
27. 3 Plain-throated Sunbird
28. 2 Olive-backed Sunbird