Sun bird and epiphytic

 

    Sun-bird trying the nectar from epiphytic Dendrophthoe pentandra  plant on the  host tree of purplish  Queen`s Flower (`Lagerstromia Speciosa). Cropped imaged  I was still fiddling with the tripod when it appeared not at the end of the zoom lens.

   Noticed the bird when walking past the tree  on my way to work last week.  Making use of the long weekends I returned to the same spot. Yesterday's trial run surfaced the absolute need of a tripod. Trying to focus using the EOS  live view at x10 is impossible with the heavy and lens.

Yishun Park - a fruit on hand beats 10 up in the tree

The search is finally over!!!!   Terap / tarrap IS found in Singapore also right at my new neighorhood. If you come across else where other than Yishun Park please let me know.  The other species with curly hairy one is high up in the hesitage tree in Fort Canning park.

I return with my P7000. I found bristle littering under the trees. The rough bristle is the same i felt in Borneo tarap. Then i found a fallen fruit. It was still very hard.

Terap / tarrap in hand.

The fruit is covered with bristle like outer skin.

Brought it home for the family member to touch and sectioned it to peep inside.

Little seeds attaching to the central core.  A far cry from those edible ones found in Sarawak / Sabah.

Green Jambu

     Young tiny round Jambu

Marang or Tarrap?

Bread fruit had different more forky leaves but this one reminded me of the tarap tree in Borneo.  Fort canning had a big tree with sterile mawang while in SBG the tarap never forms fleshy seed.

Gardens By the bay - Cloud Forest

Cloud  Forest Conservatory

Near Yishun park

This fellow flew by. .... 

  Didnt pick up the bird but i knew it was there ... until i saw the image from laptop.

Testing

Botanic Garden

 Monday mid day. Looking towards one of the Giants of SBG.

SBG - clusters

 

Nikon P7000 - this cluster was some six feet away. 

View from the top

Melacca

I was waiting for my food to be prepared, so were the couple  ..  i walked out and took another shot from another angle ( see below)

 Worth waiting for...

Picking up sovereign in St Paul's Church compound

Wall murals at Melacca River

arches..