红蜻蜓

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Get some strings and beads from Hz to make this dragonfly. Lele actually learnt to make it in secondary school but Lele forget and have to learn from the Internet again...

Le~

Paradise for Capenter Bees

Yes, Lele found the paradise for capenter bees!!





It's a place with super big morning glories...

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Look, fellow capenter bees, the flower is so much bigger than you... Imagine flying towards such a big flower... Fly~~ fly~~

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...you can even go all the way into the flower...

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... and get pollens all over your back...

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Isn't it a good place?





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When Lele and Yy went to Hort Park last Saturday, we were greeted by the sight of capenter bees hovering around the morning glories. To tell the truth, it was fun trying to capture the photographs of capenter bees flying into the flowers. Though they look clumsy and stupid , Lele is still afraid of them when they fly towards Lele. In the end, the process was filled with screams (especially from Yy =P) such that the foreign workers keep giving us the eye... They must be wondering what are we doing =.=

Le~

A Butterfly Hovers Closely

Yy told Lele that there's a Butterfly Garden in Hort Park which opens to public on every last Saturday of the month...

The weather was good and we heard alot of birds chirping away once we alight from the bus...

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Of course we will be distracted =.= Instead of getting to Hort Park, we went the opposite direction to the Hilltop Walk...

Yellow Vented Bulbul. Saw some movements in the bushes. Using camera to zoom in, we found a Yellow Vented Bulbul grooming itself.

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Common Iora (male). The very first time Lele took photographs of this bird. The two of us actually spent up to 10 minutes stalking this bird in order to get a better view. Like the bright colour of its belly and the distinct stripes on its wings.

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From Southern Ridges

By the time we got to the enclosure where the butterfly are housed, it was already slightly pass 11am. Wondering whether we need to queue to get into the garden, we approached the two staffs on duty. To our 'shock', the Butterfly Garden only open for 2 hours, from 9am to 11am T.T Luckily, the two staffs still allow us to enter =x

There's a couple of big big butterflies in the enclosure and they are not afraid of human. Below are some of the photographs taken during the trip. Lele is not good with their identification as there's just too many species of butterfly around. Not to mention that to Lele, some looked similar...

Common Tiger

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Clipper

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Common Mormon

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Tree Nymph

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Unknown =x

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Leopard lacewing

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Wee---!! Lele likes the pattern and bright colours of the butterflies!! Especially when they rest on flowers. Given the chance, Lele would want to go to the butterfly garden again as we were abit rush this morning. There are still some species of butterfly that we didn't managed to capture.

Le~

Alexandra Butterfly Trail

Went to Alexandra Butterfly Trail yesterday with Yy and Zx...

To tell the true, we were a little disappointed as the park appeared to be lack of maintenance, not to mention there's alot of mosquitoes and ants... In fact, half way through, Zx even start to take photographs of Collared Kingfisher instead... Nevertheless, we still managed to take some photographs of butterflies...

From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

One of Lele's favorite

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From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

From Of parks, nature walks; plants and animals

Lele also managed to capture a photograph of one super handsome male Asian Koel...

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Le~

Birding @ Chinese Garden 2

Continued: The non- bird photographs!!

Apart from taking photographs of birds, Lele also took some photographs of flowers, insect and animals!!

Yellow Flower. We had our breakfast beside these beautiful flowers. Zx prepared bread, eggs and luncheon meat for us^^ Lele likes this flower, it looks simple yet elegant...

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Red Flower. Like the effect of the blur background (Lele did not edit this photograph!!) There was one white and orange butterfly + some bees hovering around these flowers, but Lele wasn't fast enough to capture them. Lele guess the flower must have many nectar...

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Lotus. First time Lele sees yellow colour lotus. Likes the very slight tint of yellow of the lotus, very special in Lele's opinion.

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

Tortoise. Somehow, they are always looking at the same direction. Lele also don't know what they are looking at... The second one was trying very hard to climb up the rock...

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

Fish. Someone was feeding them bread and the fish are fighting for them!! There's some tortoise in the water too. They are too slow in snatching the bread...

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Butterfly. It is very tedious to ID butterfly as the butterfly in the same family all looked the same to Lele.

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

Bumble Bee. Giant and stupid looking. Lele always told Yy that they are harmless but she's still afraid of them. Lele feels that they are slow and retarded... (Lele= bad bad XP) This bee was flying everywhere and then stopped on the nose of the stone mice.

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Plantain Squirrel. Lele's favorite!! Lele always thought that squirrel looked 贼 when they explore their surrounding.

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

Missed out one bird photograph yesterday... A very colourful one indeed!!

From Birding at Singapore Chinese Garden

Le~

The Moth Attack

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Woo, this moth fly into our living room and start to fly here, fly there and fly everywhere... To tell the truth, I was a bit scared, especially when it flew towards me... But I still stayed in the living room to help see where it flew to while my mum and ZX tried to catch it into the bag. Finally, my mum managed to caught it!! Mama Power~~!!

Looking at it in the bag, I found that it was... kind of... ... cute, and even handsome... I know, you must be thinking: You must be kidding me!! But it does looked handsome to me. So I asked my mum to let me took some photographs before releasing it.

After torturing it, erm... I mean taking the photographs...., we released it and my mum was saying that it "不知道飞得多快"... Good to know that it wasn't injured after I... ...

Bye~ handsome moth.

Zhen Zhi: It's just a moth, what is it to scare of? Human... We ghost are not afraid of this...

Husband: Darling!! Save me-------------!!

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Zhen Zhi: I say we ghost are NOT AFRAID OF MOTH!!

Me: Hmm, maybe that's a butterfly?

Zhen Zhi: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING!! NOT ANY INSECT, BE IT MOTH OR BUTTERFLY!! HEARD THAT!!

Huband: HELP----------!!

Le~

追踪嗡嗡大行动: When I follow the Bee

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I will follow you~~

Went to trail the Southern Ridges with yy and zx today... ...

General routh taken:

Harbourfront MRT station --> secondary forests of Marang Trail --> Mount Faber Park --> Henderson Waves --> Telok Blangah Hill Park --> Hilltop Walk --> HortPark

We wanted to finish the whole trail which included the Canopy Walk and Kent Ridge Park and intended to walk all the way to West Coast. But... but... we lost our way and decided to call it a day instead... I don't mind going through these places again, especially the HortPark, there are a lot of interesting exhibitions there ^^

The photographs of the bee (only one which i stalked, wahahaha) were taken in Mount Faber Park. Hereby, I will proudly present the zoom in versions of award winning photographs...

Coming in Second:

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And the first prize goes to:

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Hmm, I know that I'm weird, but i really think that the bee is very cute, as long as it don't disturb me...

Le~