A Her-man BY with Kit 2021

[michael-ibk]

Gorgeous after gorgeous, really beautiful collection, Bravo! 

[Kitsafari]

Thanks much @michael-ibk

[Peter Connan]

Wonderful photos of wonderful birds!

[TonyQ]

Excellent photos from both of you - good to see you using your photos as well Kit!

 

(It is just a year ago that we were watching birds in your neighbour, Malaysia. Seeing your photos brings this back. It seems a long time ago now.....)

[Dave Williams]

Another ever growing BY. The race is on to 100 ( but I'm not in it!!)

[Kitsafari]

Thank you @Peter Connan @TonyQ @Dave Williams 

 

@TonyQwhat a whole lot of change in just that one year. but I'm glad you managed that trip before the world turned topsy turvy. 

Edited March 7, 2021 by Kitsafari

[Kitsafari]

72. Coppersmith Barbet, Eastwood vicinity

 

A coppersmith barbet has been making calls over the past few weeks from the rooftop antenna, and sometimes a second one would join it. I tried to record its distinctive "hong hong hong" calls but there was just too much interfererences. its calls really sound like a copper smith hammering away. One day, its call was answered but the other barbet soon flew off. guess she wasn't impressed with what she saw....  

These are aren't good shots, but hope to get a better shot later in the year. 

 

 

 

[Kitsafari]

73. Red-crowned Barbet, Dairy Farm Nature Park

 

[Kitsafari]

74. Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Baker Street

 

 

 

 

[Kitsafari]

75. Yellow Bittern, Jurong Lake Gardens

 

[Kitsafari]

76. Pied Bushchat, Central Boulevard

 

Another migrant bird that's attracted to the city life, finding good food in a small patch of greenery near the financial centre. 

 

 

[Kitsafari]

77. Zitting Cisticola, Jurong Lake Gardens

 

The only cisticola in Singapore, the small native LBJ was put on Singapore's list of bird species on the brink of vanishing. But the government redeveloped the Jurong Lake Gardens and planted grasses that were appealing to the cisticolas. They returned and bred, and there is now a slowly growing group of cisticolas in this patch. We often hear the zit-zit in the air before we see them. 

 

 

 

[Kitsafari]

78. Palm Cuckatoo, Fort Road

 

Well, this is for sure an escapee. The stunning cuckatoo is only found in New Guinea, Aru Islands and Cape York Peninsula. Now it is flying around a heavy vehicle park but is finding food to keep itself alive. Anything goes for the limited series of 2021 BY. 

 

 

[Kitsafari]

79. Common Iora, Jurong Lake Gardens

 

 

[Kitsafari]

80. Ruddy-Breasted Crake, Lorong Halus

 

 

[Kitsafari]

Just a few repeats of shots of the Black-naped Oriole at #68 and Swinhoe's White-eye from Herman

 

  

 

 

Edited March 7, 2021 by Kitsafari

[xelas]

Oh my, you are blessed by living in a birding paradise!

[Kitsafari]

Thanks @xelas I'm constantly amazed at the number of birds we have here despite the best of our government's efforts to bulldoze several areas of wooded areas and chop down beautiful old large trees so that they can plant "a million trees". ha. ha. 

[Towlersonsafari]

i really like the itchy cisticola and the yellow bittern @Kitsafari

[Galana]

I too am stunned at the plethora of lovely birdlife in Singapore. It is not as though they are all LBJs. Many are beautiful in their own right.

 

Never mind the odd escape. If it has a pulse it will be counted this year.

Edited March 7, 2021 by Galana

[Kitsafari]

Thank you @Towlersonsafari - i too like the scratching cisticola - it's as if it had gone "ahhhh" as it scratched the right spot!

 

Thanks @Galana

 

[shazdwn]

Wow, a palm cockatoo flying around Singapore, now that would be a sight. Love the barbets

[ElenaH]

WoW!! Beautiful photos! And so many species already by the beginning of March! Wonderful! You are really living in a Bird-Paradise! 

[elefromoz]

wow again Kit and Herman, what a collection. Never having seen a Bittern, and possibly never will, I have to nominate that as my fave

On 3/7/2021 at 10:02 PM, Kitsafari said:

despite the best of our government's efforts to bulldoze several areas of wooded areas and chop down beautiful old large trees so that they can plant "a million trees". ha. ha. 

Mmm, sounds familiar...

[Kitsafari]

81. Scaly-breasted Munia, Jurong Lake Garden