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