Botanic Gardens 21Jun25

From KH

Danny and I went to Botanic Gardens today.

Tanimbar Corella enjoying Pong Pong fruit. Pong Pong flower.

Olive-winged Bulbul posing.

Pin-striped Tit-Babbler also posing.

Aspilosterna albovittata leaf-footed bug

Plinia punctipennis spittlebug

Jurong Lake 30Jul22

From KH

Danny and I went to Jurong Lake Gardens today. Got a family of Smooth Otters having their morning jog.

Plantain Squirrel enjoying breakfast.

Daurian Starling, Asian Glossy Starlings and Lineated Barbet shared a bare tree.

No sharing for Tanimbar Corella!

Little Bronze Cuckoo looked on.

Brown Anole basking, ignoring us.

Peacock Royal just taking a rest.

Berlayer Creek 02Apr22

From KH

Danny and I went to Berlayer Creek today and saw more pond-herons in the open field. This one in breeding plumage.

Then out of nowhere, a female Japanese Sparrowhawk swooped into the field and came out with a prey, a dark coloured bird. Based on the light coloured bill, eye and legs, I think it's a Javan Myna.

Medium Egret in the field just looked on unperturbed.

Then, a Yellow/Sulphur-crested cockatoo or hybrid flew across the sky.

At the boardwalk, this Tanimbar Corella was eating a pong pong fruit (Cerbera sp.). Don't be hit by the many pieces that it dropped!

Pin-striped Tit-Babbler: looking for me?

Cicada

Henderson Waves 21Nov20

From KH

Looks like the raptor migration is tapering off, only Oriental Honey-Buzzards and some accipiters: ebird checklist.

 

Oriental Honey-Buzzard

Japanese Sparrowhawk

Changeable Hawk-Eagles (left dark, right pale) to fill the gap.

A Tanimbar Corella to round it all up.

Telok Blangah Forest Walk 05Oct20

From KH

I started off the day's birding at Telok Blangah Forest Walk. It was a nice elevated walkway that allowed eye-level views of birds.

Female Pink-necked Green-Pigeon. Juvenile Black-naped Oriole

Swinhoe's White-eye. Arctic Warbler

Yellow-vented Bulbuls were gorging themselves.

Some of the birds were paired up, like these Oriental Pied-Hornbills (left female, right male) and Tanimbar Corellas.

So are these Common Flamebacks (left female, right male).

Grey-rumped Treeswifts, like this one, were flying above.

While adult male Oriental Honey-Buzzard rested.

The elevated walkway was also good for butterflies, like these Ciliate Blues.

Centaur Oakblues

Striped Albatross

Common Five Ring showing top and bottom views.

Good for other insects too, like this Cerulean Carpenter Bee.

Cicada and fly.

Lastly, a Green Crested Lizard to end off the animal show.

Throw in a plant for good measure. This is the one that the ciliate blues and centaur oakblues were resting on.

1. Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) 1 - Heard
2. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
3. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 2
4. Asian Koel 2 - Heard
5. dark swiftlet sp. 50
6. Gray-rumped Treeswift 1
7. Oriental Honey-buzzard 1
8. Brahminy Kite 1
9. Oriental Pied-Hornbill 2 - Pair
10. Dollarbird 2 - Pair
11. Lineated Barbet 2 - Heard
12. Common Flameback 2 - Pair
13. Tanimbar Corella 2 - Pair
14. Rose-ringed Parakeet 8
15. Red-breasted Parakeet 2
16. Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 1 - Heard
17. Black-naped Oriole 5
18. House Crow 1 - Heard
19. Dark-necked Tailorbird 3
20. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird 1 - Heard
21. Pacific Swallow 1
22. Yellow-vented Bulbul 10
23. Arctic Warbler 1
24. Swinhoe's White-eye 10
25. Pin-striped Tit-Babbler 3
26. White-crested Laughingthrush 5
27. Asian Glossy Starling 10
28. Common Hill Myna 1 - Heard
29. Javan Myna 10
30. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker 2
31. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker 2
32. Brown-throated Sunbird 2
33. Crimson Sunbird 1