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.

Sungei Buloh 30Oct24

From KH

I went to Sungei Buloh today.

1 of 2 Lesser Adjutants.

Great-billed Heron resting on tree.

Purple Heron hiding in reeds.

Grey Heron and Great Egret in comparison.

Grey Heron and Little Egrets in comparison.

Hybrid storks.

Some of the 30 Common Redshanks.

Some of the 60 Eurasian Whimbrels.

Male Copper-throated Sunbird feeding on his favourite tree Orange Mangrove.

Lovey-dovey Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat.

Sungei Buloh 14Oct24

From KH

4 Lesser Adjutants feeding on the mudflat. After having their fill, they flew to the trees.

Mycteria storks hybridize in Singapore. From left to right: closer to Painted Stork, intermediate, closer to Milky Stork.

Faraway Little Egret and Great Egrets for size comparison.

Here are closer Little Egret and Great Egret.

Left to right: Common Sandpiper, Eurasian Whimbrel, Pacific Golden-Plover.

2 PGPs and 2 Whimbrels.

Some of the 73 Whimbrels.

Happy counting some of the 90 Common Redshanks.

Asian Glossy Starling fly by.

Sungei Buloh 02Nov22

From KH

Another Singapore first, Black-headed Ibis, was spotted at Sungei Buloh on 1 Nov 2022. So this trip is mandatory. When I reached today, it was feeding with storks, herons and egrets, seemingly accepted by them. Alas, it only stayed for 5 days, until 5 Nov.

The Milky and Painted Storks in Singapore were mainly from free-ranging stocks in Singapore Zoo, and they hybridize rampantly here. At Sungei Buloh, one can see the whole spectrum of what looks like pure Milky Storks to various intermediate hybrid forms to what looks like pure Painted Storks (clockwise from top left).

1 of many Little Egrets.

1 of 8 Grey Herons. Incoming!

Only 1 Medium Egret.

2 of many Common Redshanks.

1 of 10 Pacific Golden Plovers.

1 of 3 Common Sandpipers.

Only 1 Common Greenshank.

There were also 10 Eurasian Whimbrels.

Dairy Farm Nature Park 29May18

From KH

Danny, JS, BJ and I went Wallace Education Centre today.

This immature Asian Fairy-bluebird refused to come down.

An adult Greater Racket-tailed Drongo was on a low perch.

This Little Spiderhunter was singing away.

This juvenile Orange-bellied Flowerpecker was enjoying the False Curry Leaf Tree fruits.

While this adult will take any fruits!

This adult Olive-winged Bulbul had a ring on it, but the juvenile did not.

This adult male Pink-necked Green-pigeon showing of his chestnut vent.

A flock of free-ranging storks were circling up high.

This Slender Squirrel was very active!

A forest snail Cyclophorus perdix.

Another one Hemiplecta humphreysiana.

Camponotus ants and their nest.

Other denizens here include this high-climbing Rusty Millipede and this Nephila kuhlii.

1. 4 Milky Stork - A free ranging flock of Painted and Milky Storks
2. 5 Painted Stork - A free ranging flock of Painted and Milky Storks
3. 1 Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Heard
4. 1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
5. 10 Pink-necked Pigeon
6. 1 Banded Bay Cuckoo - Heard
7. 1 Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo - Heard
8. 20 dark swiftlet sp.
9. 1 Red-crowned Barbet
10. 1 Lineated Barbet - Heard
11. 1 Banded Woodpecker - Heard
12. 1 Common Iora - Heard
13. 4 Black-naped Oriole
14. 2 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
15. 1 Pacific Swallow
16. 1 Straw-headed Bulbul - Heard
17. 3 Yellow-vented Bulbul
18. 4 Olive-winged Bulbul
19. 1 Red-eyed Bulbul
20. 1 Common Tailorbird - Heard
21. 1 Dark-necked Tailorbird - Heard
22. 1 Rufous-tailed Tailorbird - Heard
23. 5 Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
24. 2 Asian Fairy-bluebird
25. 10 Asian Glossy Starling
26. 1 Common Hill Myna - Heard
27. 5 Javan Myna
28. 1 Blue-winged Leafbird - Male
29. 2 Orange-bellied Flowerpecker - Male & Female
30. 1 Plain-throated Sunbird - Female
31. 1 Crimson Sunbird - Immature male
32. 1 Van Hasselt's Sunbird
33. 1 Olive-backed Sunbird
34. 2 Little Spiderhunter