2016 December 26 - Kranji

With Doreen, Nessie, Ian and Freda.

1. Lesser Whistling Duck##
2. Yellow Bittern
3. Striated Heron - at Sungei Buloh
4. Grey Heron## - at Sungei Buloh
5. Purple Heron##
6. Great Egret - at Sungei Buloh
7. Intermediate Egret
8. Little Egret - at Sungei Buloh
9. Black-winged Kite
10. Black Baza
11. Changeable Hawk-Eagle## - heard only
12. Brahminy Kite - one individual seen carrying nesting material
13. White-bellied Sea Eagle
14. Grey-headed Fish Eagle##* - perched on a low botak branch close to one of the ponds
15. White-breasted Waterhen - at NSRCC
16. Grey-headed Lapwing - Doreen's photo
17. Red-wattled Lapwing##
18. Pacific Golden Plover - at Sungei Buloh
19. Whimbrel - at Sungei Buloh
20. Common Redshank - at Sungei Buloh
21. Common Greenshank - at Sungei Buloh
22. Common Sandpiper
23. Rock Dove
24. Red Turtle Dove
25. Spotted Dove
26. Zebra Dove - at NSRCC
27. Pink-necked Green Pigeon
28. Lesser Coucal
29. Asian Koel
30. Banded Bay Cuckoo - heard only
31. Plaintive Cuckoo - heard only
32. Oriental Dollarbird
33. Stork-billed Kingfisher
34. White-throated Kingfisher
35. Black-capped Kingfisher
36. Collared Kingfisher
37. Common Kingfisher
38. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
39. Blue-throated Bee-eater
40. Lineated Barbet - heard only
41. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
42. Laced Woodpecker
43. Common Flameback
44. Red-breasted Parakeet*
45. Long-tailed Parakeet*
46. Golden-bellied Gerygone - heard only
47. Common Iora
48. Pied Triller
49. Brown Shrike - at NSRCC
50. Black-naped Oriole
51. Malaysian Pied Fantail
52. House Crow
53. Large-billed Crow
54. Yellow-vented Bulbul
55. Barn Swallow - at NSRCC
56. Pacific Swallow
57. Red-rumped Swallow
58. Oriental Reed Warbler
59. Yellow-bellied Prinia
60. Common Tailorbird
61. Dark-necked Tailorbird
62. Ashy Tailorbird - at Sungei Buloh
63. Asian Glossy Starling
64. Common Hill Myna#
65. Javan Myna
66. Common Myna - at NSRCC
67. Daurian Starling
68. Oriental Magpie-Robin##
69. Asian Brown Flycatcher
70. Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
71. Olive-backed Sunbird
72. Scaly-breasted Munia
73. Paddyfield Pipit
74. Milky stork - at Sungei Buloh
75. Swiftlet spp.

2016 June 25 - An amazing encounter

It flew from the railing into the grass patch; all the while calling.
Left wing stretched out and seemed unbalanced. Could it be injured?
While I was focusing my binoculars to take a better look, it flew up and stood on my recording board.* OMG!!! A newly fledged bird.
It is overall yellowish; fluffy white belly; faint ring around the eyes; very short tail.
Are the parents calling from the trees? I tilted my head to search in vain.
Perhaps I should take a photo of this.
When I lowered my arm to reach for my phone, it flew onto a palm frond.
Hope it reunites with its parents.

*I was taking part in NParks' Heron Watch. For easy access, I hung the recording board around my neck and it rested on the front of my body.

Kranji Marshes