Showing posts with label heron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heron. Show all posts

Monday, 23 September 2013

Bird@KTPH

Went for an appointment at KTPH in July 13 and caught sight of this bird (some kind of heron or egret?) at the reservoir next to the hospital. Was admiring it for a good 5 minutes.

Afternote : Found out it was a purple heron (thanks to Ron Yeo of tidechaser.blogspot.com). A common resident bird not easily seen as it’s very shy and tends to hide among the vegetation. It is found near water bodies and feeds on small animals such as fishes, amphibians, reptiles, insects, crustaceans and even small mammals and birds.






Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Punggol Park

It's been a long time...lazy, lazy. So what have I been up to the last 8 months or so? Well many things but no need to tell grandmother stories here. Suffice to say that I'm now shuttling between SG and HCMC. Have been exploring our local parks and walks (a paradise compared to HCMC) and this morning, it was a stroll in the park ... Punggol Park to be exact. I've lived near there, witnessed the building of the park but never really explored it ... the shame of it all.

It's a nice and peaceful place, underused as most parks are in Singapore and a great place for me to perfect my skating falls in the future. Yes, I know not what I was doing when I took up inline skating. But no choice. Cannot run as knees are out of order, walking is a tad slow for me so blading is the next course of action.

Some photos here that I took while on my walk today (click for bigger pix).

Panaromic view of Punggol Park






Reflections

Hardworking Ant!

Hardworking Bee!

Was very thrilled with this little bird. Many of his bros were around but they were all shy except for him. So I followed him around for about 20 min.

Later found that he was a Striated Heron (aka Little Heron, Little Mangrove Heron, Little Green Heron, Green-backed Heron) and probably the most common heron in our area (according to singaporebirds.net). Really? How come I've seen so few of it around?

Close-up of the Striated Heron

Snack is served

Poor Ant or something...

This I think is an Egret of some kind.
See tidechaser.blogspot.sg 

Another bro of the Striated Heron species
I found along the canal