Birding updates....sorry, can't help it! Work-in-progress

Wow, a month has whizzed past since my last update.... actually, it's just as well. I never intended my blog to be a birding one.... but some passions just consume you so much that you hope to live, breathe and do everything else with it.....

So, just as well that I summarize all the birding I've done in these past weeks into one entry... will save you the description of feathers and my feelings of euphoria....

NB: 'Lifer' means seen for the first time in my life :)
and NB means Note.... (why huh? someone please enlighten)

18 June 06 - Upper Peirce Reservoir
white-bellied sea eagle, tailorbird, sunbird

Lifer: (1) flame-backed woodpecker (sorry have to break promise... this guy is too flamboyant not to describe.... I saw the back when it's perched on a bare tree - its iridiscent brown and flaming red mixed in an intoxicating kaleidoscope of colours beautifully set off in the still-lukewarm sunshine.... :) :) . Obviously for people to see, right? What's the use of having such a disgustingly beautiful back?

(2) stork-billed kingfisher (finally! after seeing the ubiquitous white-collared, throated versions) - thought the bill looks too massive to be mounted on its body, but nature always has its reasons... and good ones too!

(3) malkoha ..... too big to miss... thought they are shy creatures but certainly not shying away from limelight.... with all of us eyeing/shooting it for a good 5 minutes.

(4) babbler - didn't see this actually.... too small and fast...... I like big bird..... the Sesame Street kind....hahaha.....

(5) latest fieldscope ED50 - new from Nikon - the new object of my desire.

Why do I keep collecting expensive hobbies??

(Don't read the rest - just a draft....)

25 June 06 - Pulau Ubin
1 July 06 - Bt Batok Nature Park
laughing thrust chasing squirrel, tailorbird eating butterfly, bulbul, woodpecker
heard collared kingfisher
beeeater, dove ?

9 July 06 - Fort Canning Park
lives opp fort took photos of amourous sea eagles . saw actual nest and cluster of 20 bats under a coconut tree. Deepa kerela and the owls - a plant person - showed us the wonders of banana and gooseberry