Woke up at noon today. Didn't go to church, and didn't go for the coastal clean-up either. My thigh muscles are all tensed and strained... and I've a little stiff neck... side effects from playing the chair game. :P
Stayed at home a while; watched Discovery Channel VCDs, and Jurassic Park III on SCV. That one was a joker... haha... no further comments. Was showering outside.
Went to East Coast Park for about 45 mins in at around 5pm. My dad and I drove to the lake near carpark D1... which is the more popular spot for birding. There were no more blue-throated bee-eaters (I last saw them there in mid-August), and no kingfishers. I saw many sunbirds though, the most colourful of which was the brown-throated sunbird. Didn't manage to scope them, since they were too quick on their wings.
The highlight of the short trip was this particular parrot. I had my scope centered on a sunbird when I saw this small green thing hanging upside-down on the same branch, just a few centimetres behind the sunbird... it had a blue crown, so it was unmistakably the blue-crowned hanging parrot! It's a lifer for me... a new tick in my checklist. Sadly, I did not manage to digiscope it. See an image of it at the
OBC image db.
I should be going to the Botanic Gardens tomorrow... hope the weather'll be fine and the birds aren't feeling that shy...
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