Had two trainees tagging along, plus a group of 30 or so people from Infineon Technologies for the 9am tour. It was raining for most of the 4pm one, but the church group I was guiding was not discouraged. Having travelled all the way from Pasir Ris, they decided to brave the rain.
SL our Senior Manager has returned from her study leave. I think it was 2 or 3 years since I last saw her there. She asked me how I was doing, etc etc. and was glad that I'm doing Ecology. ;) She treated us volunteers and the rest of the staff to a pizza lunch.
Spent some time in between socialising with the staff, getting briefed on recent developments, and taking pics of -mainly- spiders. It's most definitely the spider season... there are so many different species of spiders occuring in huge numbers, many of which I have difficulty in identifying. There were so many Whip spiders, and they've migrated to a spot 50m away from where they're usually found. Saw and digiscoped a Yellow bittern.
The waders are around, but not in full force. Instead, the resident egrets have taken over.
Saw the otters too... out in the rain. Couldn't see anything from the main hide so I decided to talk a stroll to the sluice gate by its right, and that's when I saw the brown heads popping out of the water about 100m away. Couldn't digiscope them for fear of getting my cam and scope drenched. Besides the visitors were fighting to see them through the scope.
Played a little with a Cotton stainer nymph... it reminded me of my bio practical.
Ended the day with only 50 shots taken, numerous mozzie bites and a sandfly bite.
(More pics are up in the gallery.)
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