2011年3月30日星期三

裕廊湖观鸟birding@Jurong lake20110327

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) with breeding feather
looks like an intermediate egret (egretta intermedia), with breeding feather
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
This grey heron keeps on chasing the purple heron for around half an hour, maybe just for fun or for territory
Finally, this Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) has a nice time in this small pond




Little heron{Butorides striatus} caught a fish
and carry it onto a tree, but the fish is too big for this bird
Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)




green pigeon?
a parrot?

2011年3月29日星期二

三月双溪布洛华语导游Mandarin guide walk@SBWR, March (XVII)


This chick is very naughty

so naughty

feeding or talking

It is always difficult to take of two kids, Sooooo tired
High tide
High tide
It seems that these two oriental pied hornbills (Anthracoceros albirostris) are looking for a suitable nesting site, and this place is not the right one
bird nest built by sunbird and it seems nobody there
A frog stays on this leaf for hours

2011年3月28日星期一

三月双溪布洛华语导游Mandarin guide walk@SBWR, March (XVII)

Sunny day and high tide during our guide walk. Thank visitor 阿鑫 for these photos taken during the walk.
Little heron with breeding feathers, perhaps will head north soon

All tree climbing crabs get out of the water


Enjoying the trip

2011年3月27日星期日

铁路风景线Green Corridor

今年七月,马来亚铁路局将中断通往Tanjng Pagar的运输服务。这段纵贯新加坡南北的铁路线将归还新加坡政府。新加坡自然协会提议保留这条绿色走廊,同时向公众宣传此提议的重要性。上周六,自然协会组织了一次徒步活动,让大家领略新加坡少有的铁路沿线风景。谢谢汉中的邀请。
This July, the land along the railway will be returned to Singapore government and the usage of this land is still unknown. Nature Society Singapore (NSS) proposed to keep this unique and invaluable green corridor. Some NSS members set up http://www.facebook.com/#!/thegreencorridor and hope more public can understand and support this proposal. Last Saturday, NSS organized a trip along a 2 km railway near Clementi. Thanks Han Zhong for the invitation and we are really enjoying the trip and the beauty of this green corridor. I hope the readers of this blog can also take some time to visit there:
Old Bridge
Assemble at the end of Faber Drive

This part of railway has been cleared and LTA planed to build a road for International Business Park. NSS hope LTA can do some adjustment and keep this part of green corridor.

A banyan tree grows in the middle of this railway
Other trees also try their best to find space here


birds love trees along the green corridor and we love birds


Here is a beautiful pond and a Cinnamon Bittern ( Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) was spotted
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A plantation near the bridge and here is the pineapple
Papaya and sugarcane
Banana and Coconut palm


beautiful scene along the railway




White vented myna (Acridotheres grandis) drinking
Soaring, White-bellied Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)
looks like Brown-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes malacensis)
Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris)
Pigeons
Thank Chung-Pheng for the ID and a wonderful reference paper:

The butterfly should be Tawny Coaster. :)

Butterflies of Singapore: Voyage of the Tawny Coster
butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2008/03/voyage-of-tawny-coster.html

a cute insect



I hope you can also spend some time along this nice green corridor