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.

Thomson Nature Park 03Oct21

From KH

I went to Thomson Nature Park today. Bird-wise, there's nothing too interesting.

Here's a Dollarbird and half a dozen Red-breasted Parakeets.

There were tons of insects though.

Grasshoppers: Nisitrus malaya and Rufous-legged Grasshopper nymph.

Butterflies: Dingy Bushbrown and Dark-brand Bushbrown, and Chocolate Pansy.

While this Fluffy Tit preferred to hang out with Asian Honey Bee sucking Red Leea nectar.

Here's a wasp and an sugar ant.

Here's a fly, a forest cockroach and a leaf beetle.

Pond skater in the same pond as guppies.

Lastly, a Common Sun Skink.

Telok Blangah Hill Park 02Oct20

From KH

I was at TBHP in the afternoon for any early migrant raptors, but there were none! I enjoyed the company of grasshoppers instead. There were lots of Short-winged Rice Grasshoppers Pseudoxya diminuta.

Here are some adults.

Here's a nymph.

Other grasshoppers include this Japanese Rice Grasshopper Oxya Japonica.

And other hard to ID grasshopper nymphs, like this.

Here are some busy ants.

A lynx spider Oxyopes.

A Sarika resplendens.

And a Common Sun Skink.

1. Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) 1 - Heard
2. Pink-necked Green-Pigeon 1
3. Asian Koel 1 - Heard
4. dark swiftlet sp. 20
5. Changeable Hawk-Eagle 1 - Heard
6. Brahminy Kite 2
7. White-bellied Sea-Eagle 1
8. bee-eater sp. 1 - Heard
9. Lineated Barbet 1 - Heard
10. Tanimbar Corella 1 - Heard
11. Black-naped Oriole 1
12. House Crow 2 - Heard
13. Dark-necked Tailorbird 2
14. Barn Swallow 1
15. Yellow-vented Bulbul 4
16. Common Hill Myna 1 - Heard
17. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker 2
18. Brown-throated Sunbird 1
19. Olive-backed Sunbird 1 - Heard