Sat June 29 2013 - Yishun Park / Bukit Timah Dairy Farm again

Something moving in the leaves.....

Long-tailed parakeet  friends nibbling the tiny fruits  

I looked up trying to figure out who dislodged the fruits that came raining down

The slightly crested Yellow vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier) - Perching on the branches and watching out for companions.

Closer Look...

Flipping the wings to attract attention....

Yishun Pond - you will find them any time there

Near Yishun MRT Exit. Spotted this bean plants under the Mahogany. Took this before it was weeded out. 

In the afternoon we revisited the Dairy Farm Loop in BT. But this time we reversed our direction in the Dairy Farm Loop. Walking up the Rengas  and walking down the Jungle Fall.

Elevation pfrofile of the trails we took ( same as last Sunday)

Google Earth ( export Garmin file in ITN Converter to XML )

Rain the day/night before ... at least not as dry as last week.

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Another view of  Singapore Quarry from Selaya Hut

Small Island was build there. 

Butterfly on the pavement

Dairy Farm Loop - BT Reserve Sunday June 23 2013 - Haze PSI two digits only

Sunday June 23 2013  afternoon, the PSI index stayed within 2 digits and the sky looked great. We took bus 966 from Woodlands Bus Interchange and dropped off  one bus stop before reaching  Dairy Farm Road.  Car park B is just across the traffic light. After a short walk towards Wallace Education centre you will find the entrance to the Dairy Farm Loop - Bukit Timah Trails. Despite the dry and warm weather most of the trails are under the shade. The stairs are challenging for the first time goer and i recalled struggling in my last walk. Apart from the handful of monkey near the car park, little animals were seen in the entire trails ( Dairy Farm Loop-> Seraya Loop-> Jungle Fall Path ->Rengas trail -> straight Dairy Farm Loop and back to the Car Park A. 

Concrete little hut.

Steps plenty of steps

HG Wells' war machine ?

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Singapore Quarry - a short distance from the Jungle Fall Hut

A gap in the tree lines.

Zoomed view of the gap - it is a road dividing the tree lines

Lets look at what is on the little clearing mid of the pic

Wooden plank walkway  and there is a guy walking away a short distance away.

Hazadrous PSI levels for nearly a week then Sat it improves to PSI 74

Yishun Ponds

Drying out my feathers

Perched high on a branch not far from my first viewing of them.

Where is my lunch?

Passing by .. any more nectar?

Taking refuge in the dried up canal.

Inflorescence of Tarap

Passing by ...

Butterflies fluttering ...  more than a few pairs two captured here.



Zoomed in one of them.

Tree Top View ... revisited June 15 2013 .. Yishun park in the evening

My double Digi Nth visit's to the TTW! This time playing with my camera.

Nice weather day. I jumped into a cab after alighting from AMK MRT.  Venus's drive is just a few minutes away and I reached my destination 9:16am. 

Birds were singing and a group of insects enthusiast were seen with their macro / flash light set up. Another groups with big mammoth zoom lens were hunting other target ( birds?)  As usual the runners were ever present weaving  through the slow moving TTW visitors.  A few monkeys sat at the road side watching the passer-by. 

I spotted this bee hive... on Albizia ( Paraserianthes falcataria) tree

Close up of the masses of living bees!

Even closer looks of them

Young Resam

View from the Tree Top View

Another pigeon attracted by the ripening red figs?

Fluttering wing of a female olive-backed sunbird spotted.near TTW entrance to the footpath

Now she sat still...

Many years ago i recalled chasing one collared kingfisher with a eos 20D.  I managed to get one. I was wondering whether i could bag one today. I did. Just before i left the park one blue jacketed kingfisher flew by. Sat on construction fences and with the x50 handy i can afford a closer look.

Squirrel eaten one of the durians.. in Yishun park who else

Ants eating the durian too. (  yishun park )

Squirrel behind this durian Yishun Park

Collared Kingfisher - Main diet include insects lizards as well as fishes.

Closer look - the beak is chipped at several locations on the upper edge!

This was taken near Yishun overhead bridge BLK 146

Mistletoe Dendrophthoe pentandra flowering attracting birds like sunbird, parakeets