Birding @ Jurong Lake 2012

common tailor bird

Ashy tailor bird

Coppersmith barbet

Coppersmith barbet

Lineated barbet

Lineated barbet

Dollar bird

Asian glossy starling

Tree sparrow

Purple backed starling

Javan munia

Scaly breasted munia

Brown shrike

Tiger shrike

Pied imperial pigeon

Rock pigeon

Zebra dove

Arctic wabler

Common sandpiper

Chinese pond heron

Great egret

Little heron

Brahminy kite

night heron

A black bittern @ Jurong Lake?

Photos taken at Chinese Garden this morning. The size of the bird is comparable to cattle egret and Chinese pond heron and much bigger compared with yellow bittern. It is tame but still prefer hide in the grasses. I feel that it is a black bittern.

A Collared kingfisher having waterbath @ Jurong Lake

It is a hot hot afternoon. This collared kingfisher is flying into the water to cool down but not for any fish.

八月双溪布洛华语导游Madarin guide walk@SBWR,August(XXXII)

It is a sunny day and the tide is very low during our walk along the mangrove boardwalk. As the mudflat is exposed, we spot lots of crabs especially those tiny ones who are hiding in the mud during the high tide. A crocodile is spotted near the main bridge, but it disappears soon.
The olive-backed sunbirds are still feeding the chicks outside of the visitor center.

You need not only the lucky but also good eyesight to spot the crocodile here

Cute crab

Tiny crab

Mini crabs on the mudflat

White mini crabs

Horseshoe crab

A mudskipper is 'walking' on the mudflat

A Giant Mudskipper is resting in a pond of water

Male olive-backed sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis)

Female olive backed sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis)

Oriental white eye (Zosterops palpebrosus)

Female scarlet backed flowerpecker  (Dicaeum cruentatum)

Male scarlet backed flowerpecker  (Dicaeum cruentatum)

Female common flameback woodpecker  (Dinopium javanense)

Male common flameback woodpecker  (Dinopium javanense)

White bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)

Migratory shore birds feeding on the mudflat

Sungei Buloh

Malay water monitor lizard (varanus salvator)

Skink

St. Andrew's Cross Spider (Argiope mangal)