On our way to New Zealand and Australia, we decided to stop off for three days in Singapore. It's absolutely not a birding stop but inevitably I was bound to pick up a few new species having never been to south-east Asia before. One of the commonest was this beautiful black-naped oriole and in total I managed 20 new species in Singapore. Most spectacularly I managed to find an unprecedented flock of 12 Himalayan Vultures themalling over the CPD, whilst most pleasing for me was getting a good look at blue-crowned hanging-parrots.
This is one of the pond herons, most likely Chinese Pond Heron I think.
Blue-tailed bee-eater.
Javan Myna
Red Junglefowl.
Large-billed crow.
We saw plenty of these water monitors, this one was about 1m long.
Greater racket-tailed drongo. As with many birds here, they are often in dense woodland or jungle where the light is very poor for photography.
We saw several smooth-coated otters, these were at the Botanic Gardens.
White-breasted waterhens were pretty common.
Yellow-vented bulbul.
Zebra dove.
Gardens by the Bay, a major tourist attraction in Singapore. From a birding point of view obviously daytime is the best time to be here.
However from a tourist point of view it really comes alive in the evening with a light show to the accompaniment of music.
No comments:
Post a Comment