the first bird was the pink breasted pigeon

common flameback

yellow vented bulbul

brown shrike

and then this splendid rufous woodpecker appeared..recognisable as the male by the red marks under his eye

he appeared to have something on his left cheek

Indeed he appeared to have a tumour on the left side of his neck…

Eurasian tree sparrow

a pair of pygmy sunda woodpeckers…

close up of sunda pygmy woodpecker

dollar bird

white throated kingfisher

male olive backed sunbird

the common and ubiquitous black naped oriole

spotted dove

oriental magpie robin singing

pied triller

common crow

then we headed over to the Kranji Marshes….

scaly breasted munia

asian glossy starling

blue tailed bee eater

the long walk into the Kranji Marshes from the carpark yielded a few sighitings…like the pied fantail

changeable hawk eagle guarding its nest

pink breasted parakeet

long tailed parakeet

a rather louder bird of a different ilk flew overhead

common iora

and then climbing up the observation tower, we had a pretty good view of the core conservation area….

lesser coucal

this fellow sat quietly on this tree branch and posed…a laced woodpecker

another view of the red speckled head of the laced woodpecker

and then this fellow who had been playing hide and seek with us finally perched in the open..

The Bronze Cuckoo..a lifer

the core conservation area was open for the bird race participants that day…

but we only saw a purple heron

and an eastern cattle egret

leaving the kranji marshes we stopped off at the golf course to see the little ringed plover

yellow wagtail

red wattled lapwing

and finally heading back to the ‘old’ part of sungei buloh nature reserve, there were a number of water birdss..here redshanks and greenshanks

marsh sandpiuper

and out on the road just before the end of the race at 1230, this asian brown flycatcher posed for us