Nomias at work! Busy pollinating the Melastoma flowers. Our best friend in the survey trips, despite having to shoo them away. They have blue stripes on their abdomen~ And they occur in abundance~ Also known as sweat bees, should be attracted to sweat. But dun seem so. We also found interesting ways to attract the carpenter bees~ Hehehe!
Blurred shot of the pink-necked green pigeon (Treron vernans) feeding on Melastoma fruits.
Blue Damselfly~ Blue Sprite (Pseudagrion microcephalum) More info here.
Female Orange-bellied flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma) feeding on Melastoma fruit! Messy eater~ Look at her beak! Like got shit on the beak lahz~
Slug~ Shellness snail~
Beetle~
Ripen Melastoma fruits~
Black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) fluffing up the feathers and sunning after the drizzle.
A butterfly with a horn on the unripe simpoh air fruit.
Our survey area~
White-breasted water hen (Amaurornis phoenicurus) looking for food~ Possibly a resident in the area, seen it 2-3 times.
Changeable hawk eagle (Spizaetus cirrhatus) perching and preening~
Well-made bird nest~
Common Flashwing (Vestalis amethystina). Possibly the female. Pretty wings~ More information here.
This is one commonly used butterfly plant. Called snake whip if I'm not wrong. To attract the butterflies to the area, it is important to plant such plants. The butterfly will go to the area itself without introduction. According to Dhava, Nparks planted such butterflies plants along orchard road in the attempt of attracting butterflies to the area (making a butterfly park) instead of releasing butterflies in the area.
Pretty butterfly on the ground~ Possibly taking salt from the ground.
Pretty orange butterfly, cruiser (Vidula sp. ) More information here.
Some jumping insect on the leaf.
Cockroach!!!! Super big 1!!!! Was really quite scary looking~
Striped-tit babbler (Macronous gularis) There were quite a number of them, at least 6 along the trail! Distinctive "tong-tong-tong" calls. Was lucky to see the mum/dad feeding the young, it looks as if they r kissing! So cute~ But unfortunately no photos~ And sorry for the blurred shots~
Bracket fungi on the log. The expensive "ling-zhi" is also one special type of bracket fungus~ But of course not so easily found. I dun think it can be found in Singapore.
Tree top walk! Coz it was a weekday, the whole trail belong to both of us!!! Can see our shadows from the 2nd pic. But it was super hot and not a good site for bird-watching.
Scenic view from the hanging bridge! It is really very high! And the amazing thing is not a single tree was fell during the construction process!!!!
Some lizard on the tree trunk along the way. It did not move a single inch during our photo-shooting session. Co-operative gecko!
Seen the common sun skink (Mabuya mutlifasciata) for a few times. But this is my only picture.
White-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricu)! The female on the ground in the 1st photo and the male in the next. The female have a more greyish look, whereas the male is more glossy black. They are well-known for their beautiful singing. They are in the same genus as oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis), or commonly known to Chinese as the "xi qie", the bird will bring good news or sth. The way they walk and feed is rather similar.
Crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)
Huge strangler fig~ It start to grow on the tree then the roots were then sent to the ground, 'strangling' the host tree.
Greater coucal (Centropus sinensis)!!!!
Some interesting insects found on the bark of a tree~
As the Melastoma are not flowering as much, the prof can do themselves, so our help was not needed. But it was really a fun and interesting experience! I really enjoy myself during the survey despite having to wake super early and catch the 1st bus to the place and walk all the way in (in pitch darkness, a bit of light lahz actually :P). Really hope I can have such experiences again!
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