Sungei Buloh 15Nov24

From KH

Back to Sungei Buloh. Saw this Milky × Painted Stork, almost a Milky Stork, but black covert spots, feeding on a water snake.

Another hybrid stork, almost a Painted Stork, but incomplete breast band.

A Medium Egret among Little Egrets, masquerading as the latter, but note size, bill length and feet colour differences. Looks like it's still molting out of breeding plumage.

The same individual with its typical non-breeding yellow-billed version. Little Egrets in front and Common Redshanks behind.

2 of 108 Eurasian Whimbrels.

2 of 3 Oriental Honey-Buzzards, a pale one and a dark one.

Some of the 10 House Swifts at what is left of the old bridge.

Dairy Farm 16Jun24

From KH

Danny and I went to Dairy Farm Nature Park. Nice to see a very open Striped Bronzeback on spiral ginger.

Hindhede, Bukit Timah 08Jun24

From KH

Danny, JS and I went to Hindhede Nature Park today. Nice to see a Collared Scops-Owl devouring a Double-spotted Gecko.

Time for health check, i.e. scale Bukit Timah Hill. Nice to get a male Asian Fairy-Bluebird.

Wagler's Pit Viper hanging out on Bandicoot Berry.

Bukit Timah, Pulau Ubin 27Apr24

From KH

Danny and I went to Bukit Timah summit, our annual health check.

Just the usual forest birds at the fruiting Benjamin's Fig.

And a female Wagler's Pit Viper in one of the bushes.

Soon, news of female Scarlet Minivet broke on Pulau Ubin, so off we went.

No minivet, but Black-and-red Broadbill still around. Yes, that blur blob in the middle.

Telok Blangah 07Oct23

From KH

Danny and I went to Telok Blangah Hill Park for raptor watch.

Migrants:

2 of 4 Oriental Honey Buzzards

2 or 3 Japanese Sparrowhawks

Just 1 Chinese Sparrowhawk

Residents:

1 Crested Goshawk

1 Grey-headed Fish-Eagle

Painted Bronzeback snaking in (I mean sneaking in). Where's the Serpent Eagle??

Pasir Ris Park Connector 05Aug23

From KH

Danny and I went to Pasir Ris Park Connector near Carpark F, hoping to see the White-chested Babbler photographed a couple of weeks ago, but we only got the usual birds.

Another White-spotted Slug Snake roadkill. (Recall one seen last month.)

Sungei Serangoon 09Jul23

From KH

It's Fall Migration Bird Census and I covered Sungei Serangoon as usual. The river, or what used to be a river before they dam it, is still good for waterbirds, like adult Black-crowned Night-Heron and juvenile Purple Heron.

Here are a couple of pied birds: Malaysian Pied-Fantail, male Oriental Magpie-Robin.

Adult Long-tailed Shrike.

Shy Common Tailorbird. Shyer male Common Iora.

Male Brown-throated Sunbird and male Ornate Sunbird sipping nectar from Brackishwater Mangrove Barringtonia racemosa flowers.

Ornate Sunbird nest.

Male Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker sipping nectar from?

White-spotted Slug Snake, usually found as roadkills, why? Here the foot-long body was scavenged by Carebara ants.

Common Snakehead with a cichlid.

Lots of other cichlids as well.

Nile Tilapias. Mozambique Tilapia

Mayan Cichlid

The canal was full of Hydrilla. Good hiding place for the fish?

Sungei Buloh 24Jun23

From KH

Danny and I went to Sungei Buloh today. There were a couple of Estuarine Crocodiles in Sungei Buloh Besar.

Immature Black-crowned Night-Heron also at Sungei Buloh Besar, which was lined with Sea Hibiscus.

Swinhoe's White-eye was frolicking in Orange Mangrove.

Oriental Whip Snake at the Mangrove Boardwalk.

Boddart's Blue-spotted Mudskipper on the mudflat.

Mangrove St Andrew's Cross Spider and wasp.

 

Lots of katydids and grasshoppers.

Leaf Katydid. Nisitrus malaya

Rufous-legged Grasshopper. Traulia azureipennis