Tampines Eco Green, Pasir Ris Farmway 03Apr22

From KH

I went to Tampinese Eco Green for a walk.

Introduced Asian Golden Weaver, breeding male, making nest in Water Dead-and-Awake (Neptunia plena). What a name for this Neptunia! Compare with the completed nest on the right.

Local Baya Weaver in various forms:

Female type. Partial breeding male


Breeding male

Baya Weaver nests on Earpod Wattle (Acacia auriculiformis).

Male Red-breasted Parakeets sharing tree with Pink-necked Green-Pigeon couple.

Collared Kingfisher on bare tree. Sunda Woodpeckers on another bare tree.

Sooty-headed Bulbul on bush.

Pale juvenile Oriental Honey-Buzzard flew over me!

Chicken, male and female.

Chestnut Bob, a skipper butterfly.

Two trees side by side, one with lichens, one with mosses? Why?

Next, Pasir Ris Farmway. Got 5 Chinese Pond-Herons assuming breeding plumage. Here are 2 of them.

Javan Myna: I can also stretch my neck. Chinese Pond-Heron: Try harder.

Sengkang Riverside Park 22Dec21

From KH

I went to Sengkang Riverside Park and saw a pale morph Changeable Hawk-Eagle.

Seeing double. Right Sunda Woodpecker seemed to have sustained injury above eye. How many species of lichens are there??

Male Red-breasted Parakeet inspecting a tree/nest hole.

White-breasted Waterhen strolling in a drain with beta-proteobacteria (the orangey stuff).

Black-naped Oriole perched on Starfruit tree.

A planthopper Ricanula pulverosa.