2011年3月27日星期日

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

2011年3月26日星期六

Plant tree, plant future 植树

今天有幸参加了国大学生会组织的植树活动。这是国大学生拯救地球的活动之一,目标是营造一个“在热带雨林中的校园”。
I am very happy and honored to participate the Campus in Tropical Rainforest (CiTR ) Plant-A-Tree project this morning. Although more than 25 person planted three trees only, it was a exciting experience. Toddycats conducted an impressive nature walk in Kent Ridge after the tree planting.
After transplanting trees, took a photo proudly --‘I gave life to a tree’.
Demo by Prof Leo
Team work
Not a green hand, seriously
watering
group photo
Otterman speaks
Outside of S2
Oral history
Oi Yee, a senior Toddycats

2011年3月18日星期五

Changi practical again

Harvesting



a cute swimming crab


Thorny sea cucumber粉色的海参
Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish
Mantis shrimp
Puffer fish鲀
Yellow sea horse海马
Sole比目鱼
eel鳗鱼
horseshoe crab马蹄蟹