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It’s been a busy month for the shutter. For November so far…
1: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve & Int’l Year of the Frog
6: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
7-9: Trip to Sedili, Johor Malaysia
15: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
18: Huntsman spider
18: ISEAS/WWF talk by Dr Chris Hails
22: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve & Kranji countryside
23: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
24: [...]

I returned home today and told my mom that I’d have to head straight to Bishan Park again tomorrow morning, and she commented that it feels as if lately I’m “日日好似去玩… 唔似番工”.
Well… there was the induction course for new staff last week, and it included visits to several places including Gardens by the Bay, [...]

Woe betide any creature that finds itself ‘discovered’ on the walls of the office. A sharp poke with the business end of an umbrella and a gentle drop would land it on the floor, where it will then be coaxed into a jar, and be subjected to much scrutiny amongst the staff, who would then [...]

I mentioned in an earlier post the sighting of the Eurasian Curlew - one of the highlights of this year’s migratory season. It was but an entrée. News about a flock of seven Great Knots (Calidris tenuirostris), the largest reported number seen in Buloh, generated some excitement in recent days. Today… there was a most [...]

Went with the NParks CN Div staff and volunteers to Sedili, Malaysia, over the weekend. Accomodation was the rather decent Alkaff family-run Tanjung Sutera Resort, where I shared an ensuite air-conditioned room with a gecko, a praying mantis, a millipede, and a few mozzies. The food wasn’t bad either, although I had to turn almost [...]

How many waders can you spot?

Sunset at Buloh

Light-up along Serangoon Road

Hindu devotees at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple
Link :: More photos on Zoto

Deepavali, the most important date of the Hindu calendar, occurs on one day during October, and in the ethnic quarter of Little India, the festivities last practically for the whole month of October.
Deepavali is the Festival of Lights, and marks [...]

For some people finding rarities is the raison d’être of their birding selves. That act of independent discovery has been elevated almost to the status of a principle, which often forms the basis of opposition to twitching. Some argue that without those who go faithfully to watch the same area day in, day out, in [...]