Pasir Ris Farmway, Lorong Halus 04Jan25

From KH

Danny, JS and I went to Pasir Ris Farmway 3 for the Amur Stonechat that was reported there, and sure enough it was there in the grassland of Paspalum grass.

With patches of White Leadtree.

Mission accomplished, we moved on to Lorong Halus Wetland. Got 4 Savanna Nightjars.

And 20 Gallinago snipes and 1 female Greater Painted-Snipe.

There were 2 Jerdon's Bazas and 4 Oriental Honey Buzzards. Here's one of the OHBs.

Habitat-wise, some of the trees here include White Leadtrees and this Sea Almond.

Seletar Dam, Seletar East 02Dec18

From KH

A short stop-over at Seletar Dam did not yield any wader other than a Common Sandpiper.

1. 1 Common Sandpiper - Heard
2. 1 Gray Heron
3. 1 Great Egret
4. 5 Little Egret
5. 2 Collared Kingfisher
6. 1 Golden-bellied Gerygone - Heard
7. 1 House Crow
8. 5 Javan Myna
9. 3 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Moving on to Seletar East, it was uncommon to see a Savanna Nightjar out in the open, but I guess it's really confident of its camouflage!

As usual, the Pintail/Swinhoe's Snipes will fly off before you see them.

Next, a Cattle Egret put on a good show, dipping and tossing an Asian Toad, before swallowing it.

This Intermediate Egret looked on.

It was good to round it all off with an uncommon White-shouldered Starling.

1. 5 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
2. 1 Spotted Dove
3. 1 Pink-necked Pigeon
4. 1 Asian Koel - Heard
5. 1 Savanna Nightjar
6. 30 dark swiftlet sp.
7. 10 Pacific Golden-Plover
8. 1 snipe sp.
9. 7 Intermediate Egret
10. 2 Little Egret
11. 7 Cattle Egret
12. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
13. 1 Brahminy Kite
14. 1 Common Kingfisher - Heard
15. 5 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
16. 2 Brown Shrike
17. 1 Long-tailed Shrike
18. 1 Black-naped Oriole
19. 3 Barn Swallow
20. 2 Yellow-vented Bulbul
21. 2 Zitting Cisticola
22. 1 White-shouldered Starling
23. 5 Javan Myna
24. 1 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
25. 4 Paddyfield Pipit
26. 3 Chestnut Munia

Mandai Mudflat, SBWR, Tuas 06Sep08

From Danny

The Red-necked Stint is the smallest in the pic, behind the Whimbrels. Pic taken at Mandai Mudflat this morning. Note the relative size of the stint with that of the Lesser Sand-plovers on the left.

This was the bi-coloured bill Common Greenshank which kept us engaged for hours at SBWR. The typical Common Greenshank at top right corner. According to David Li, the legs (tibia) are too long as Nordmann's Greenshank is relatively shorter.

Refer 2nd pic, the bi-coloured bill bird has what Waders of the World descibed as "Dark brown lesser coverts contrast with more uniform grey upperparts, fringed white". The difference as shown with the Common Greenshank in the pic. However, agree the legs, tibia section are obviously lengthy.

Other than the Savanna Nightjar, Kok Hui counted 26 RW Lapwings at Tuas. There were also a few Pintail Snipes in the field.

Changi 02, 07Feb08

Con on 2 Feb

Here are a couple of my shots of the Red-necked Stint today.

A couple of the dark morph CHE.

My first flight shot of the Malaysian Plover!

Lapwing on sentry duty.

Juvenile Pied Harrier.

A couple more from SC. Left: blue-tailed bee-eater. Right: Dark morph changeable hawk-eagle.

Con on 7 Feb

On first day of CNY I tried to enter CC through the KTC construction entrance, but no luck, the guard was on duty so I went to Ubin instead and found plenty of Copper-throated Sunbirds.

Today, following the posting by Simon, I went to try CC again. Once again, the KTC entrance was guarded. So I went to the Airshow Entrance and said "I'd like to go birding". They said okay and gave me a Visitor Pass !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a slow start to the day. Low tide was 6:35am, and by the time I got to the beach at 7:45am there were still plenty of waders but I was looking directly into the sun without a scope so it was difficult. I drove around, the Lapwings were still there, but the fresh water pools had dried up and the Wood Sandpiper and the "Green" Sandpiper were gone. At 10:00am the female Pied Harrier came out for breakfast and I followed her around a bit. I think she is the same one that has been at Changi for the past couple of months.

At 10:30am I noticed two folks on the sand bar that looked like birders so I drove over and it was Subaraj and Martin "............." They had just been on the sandbar and found 8 "white-faced plovers", some males, some females, some indeterminant. Subaraj said they are bigger than Malaysian Plovers. So I went out on the sandbar to look and sure enough the flock of 8 was right were Subaraj said it was. But it was too far for a decent photo, and when I tried to get closer the flock flushed.

Leaving the sandbar I flushed 2 Savanna Nightjars. The first two pictures are consecutive and of the same bird. The third picture might be the other bird, not sure.

Then I went to the Eastern Most Point of Singapore, and the Red-necked Stints where there again, and also one Yellow-fronted Canary (escape from Africa) was singing his heart out on one of the Casuarina trees.

Male Savanna Nightjar ©Con Foley

Oriental Honey-buzzard ©Fang SC