Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve Nov 3 2013

Egrets took off - trying to catch them

Egrets above.

Birds on the sandbars - they just dazzled the eyes

Nov 3, 2013 Sunday -  Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve via bus SMRT 925. On Sunday this bus will bring  you to the bus stop outside the reserve whereas on other days you will have to walk in from Kranji Reservoir.

Whimbrel notice one of them with widely open beak. ( mid left)

Egrets - there are swamps of them flunking the pure white feathers . 

Archer fish -  uses jets of water to dislodge insects on branches and they became meals.

Cicada - just one of this can deliver a loud singing. Imagine  thousands of them singing at the same time.

Oriental pied hornbill - this is our 2nd time seeing hornbill. The last one were in Pulau Ubin. A kind chap eagerly pointed out the pair to us while we just stepped into S Buloh Wetland Reserve. Soon a gathering of the skyward lens resulted. The feathery friends seem to be least bothered.

Horn-bill

Biggie - guess what are they focusing on ? [ collar KF ]

Here is the pair.  According to the survey there are about 100 hornbills in Singapore. They were doing the morning grooming i suppose.

Collared KF.  Several 'biggie' - large telescopic lens were seen training on them behind observation deck. I have to feel contented with the x50 optical zoom instead.

Tides coming in.

Mangrove Arboretum This is the boardwalk worth visiting. I remembered there was a visit before where the sea water were mere inches away from flooding the walk way.

E. versicolor or Tree climbing crab or Vinegar crab.  A delicacy -mum told me grandfather used to prepare them with vinegar and lime juices and preserved them in glass jar. She mentioned about the squarish look. Indeed they are ( see image below)

Boardwalk with shelter.

Tower Hide 2C. My watch tells me about 10m in elevation so about the same height of the larger Aerie ( see below)