Yes, finally going to blog about the birding session last Sunday!! Yy and Lele wake up at 6:50 and set off to Chinese Garden at around 7:30. Yy and Zx debated as to meet at 7:00 or 8:00. Lele choose 7:30 so that we can catch some of the sunrise^^
The very first bird that we saw was the Litter Egert. It was later joined by a Grey Heron... Yy wanted to walk along the road because it was faster and more direct. But Lele wants to walk inside the park so Lele can take photographs... So, Lele nag and nag and nag at Yy to walk into the park. At least it wasn't a wasted trip.
Wahaha-------!! It feels so good to use the Fx18 Lumix camera... Zoom, zoom, zoom (18 times wor). Then we saw some Rock Pigeon... The red one was turning in circles!! Yy told me that it is one of the phenomena that she learnt before... That pigeon thought food will be given if they turn in circles and psychologists performed some conditioned test on them to observe... Evil psychologists!!
Finally made it to the Chinese Garden... Lele like pagoda alot!! We didn't climb up this time as both Yy and Zx kind of hurt their legs and have difficulties climbing down stairs. There was many bird shit the last time Lele went up. Nevertheless, the view was good and Lele would want to climb up again given the chance.
Yes! It's time for
Lele to throw in all photographs again... When
Yy and
Lele reached Chinese Garden,
Zx was already there waiting. The three of us walked around the place, scaring some birds away while other people were taking photographs =P We finally settle on a tree to shoot photographs of birds on the tree...
Black Naped Oriole. Turned out that it's a very 'aggressive' bird. We saw it chased Dove and disturb Squirrel.
Lele don't like it
le =(
Magpie Robin.
Yy said she likes this bird as the tail is very beautiful... Research reveals a sad story where this bird was almost hunt to extinction in Singapore... Reading some of the characteristics of the bird,
Lele falls in love with them too...
"Magpie Robins have a delightful varied song and are said to be able to imitate the calls of other birds. They are sprightly and lively, often cocking their long tails. They are easy to spot as they are not shy and sing from exposed perches. Sometimes, they may abruptly sing in at night!"
Ria Tan, Birds of the Mangroves at Sungei Buloh Singapore, Magpie Robin: http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Copsychus_saularis.htm
Collared Kingfisher.
Lele thinks the Kingfisher looks cool. It flew from one tree to another with three of us follow closely, posed, hopped to the ground, stared at us and finally flew far far away...
Yellow Vented Bulbul.
Lele now believe that this is a common bird in Singapore... We saw many of them in Chinese Garden...
Lele also saw them at other reserves,
Sungei Buloh and Tree Top Walk... The name is cute...
Bulbul!!
Lele likes it when they ruffled up.
Yellow Bittern.
Tada, it was hunting alone along the shore when
Lele spotted it. Took a few photographs then start to walk closer to it to take better ones. Actually,
Lele was taking photographs of tortoise before
Lele saw it, it
camouflaged well along the shore!!
Unidentified. This looks
abit like the
Tailorbird but
Lele can't really confirm it. All small birds look the same to
Lele X_X They are good hopper and do so really fast from branch to branch. This made it difficult to catch them on camera...
Yy said that
Lele was good to have managed to capture a front view of this bird ^^
Pacific Swallow. Death stare... ... *shiver.
Lele thinks we were lucky to have it stopped on the lamp post. The swallows were flying in big circles, non stop and we really thought that we were not going to take any photograph of it... But this one stopped at the lamp post just in
front of us =D
Lele is tire and shall continue blogging about the birding session tomorrow.
Lele still having stomach cramp, accompanied by pain in the joints =( At first,
Lele thought is food allergy as
Lele's having some symptoms
Lele experienced when
Lele takes seafood. Mum said is heat stroke...
To be continue~
