Singapore Botanic Gardens
Yup - again.'Twas a good day, lots of nice sightings, with the rainbow lorikeet and the flying dragon to top them off. Saw the common kingfisher again, but I keep losing track of it when it flew into the bushes... spent a long time trying to spot it but couldn't locate it. Sometimes I wished kingfishers wouldn't stay in the same position for such a long time.
Had a chance to play with a praying mantis, found on a leave along the way. It was a pretty aggressive one, and kept wanting to pinch my fingers.
Met a Japanese couple who were obviously into birding and photography - they were in 'full gear' too. The lady asked me to confirm with her some bird species, and asked about which were good spots to see birds.
Just when we were about to leave, a girl next to me exclaimed, pointing to a tree trunk, that she saw a lizard flying onto it. I went, "Flying dragon!" and so that was how we came to see the little Draco. It was clinging onto the darkest part of the trunk, right under the foliage of the leaves. I could hardly see it with my naked eye, let alone take a good picture of it through the scope. What I have is the best I could muster out of numerous attempts.
But... I made the horrible mistake of having my camera set to ISO400... without me knowing it. The result? Grainy effects.
Took 124 photos in all today.
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