When: February 2026 Weather: Hot 32C OM1mk2 150-400mm Zuiko Pro The next day we went to Perth airport again and checked in for our flights to Christmas Island again only to find it was postponed by another 24 hr yet … Continue reading
When: February 2026 4pm Weather: Hot 30C We were to fly from Perth to Christmas Island but Qantas postponed our flight due to adverse weather conditions……by the time we deplaned and got our luggage back and hired a car and … Continue reading
When: February 2026 Weather: Cool 20-25C OM1mk2 150-400mm Zuiko Pro We landed in Perth at 530am for a two day stopover en route to Christmas Island (or so we thought) and we headed straight to Herdsman Lake which my friend … Continue reading
When: February 2026 Weather : Hot 29C OM1mk2 150-400mm Zuiko From time to time we hear of new sightings of interesting migrants in Singapore and a couple of weeks ago, there was a report of a Fairy Pitta in the … Continue reading
When: January 2026 Weather: Warm 25-28C OM1 mk2 150-400mm Zuiko Pro I’d last visited Brunei about a year and a half ago and hadn’t seen any special birds as I couldn’t get a guide then…my last words of the post … Continue reading
When: December 2025 and January 2026 Weather: warm 27C OM1mk2 Zuiko 150-400mm Pro Not having birded at the Chinese Garden in Jurong for many years, I went there on 3 occasions as there were consistent reports of several cuckoos and … Continue reading
When: December 2025 Weather: warm 27C OM1mk2 150-400mm Zuiko Pro A couple of hours in Dairy Farm starting from CarPark B at 0730…fairly quiet but a few gems… So just a few birds for this morning walk but very colourful … Continue reading
When: Christmas Day 2025 Weather: Cool 23C and perfectly overcast OM1mk2 Zuiko 150-400mm Pro Having been tweaking our OM1 mk 2s to try and optimise our exposure combinations, we headed back to the unexpectedly lovely Marina Grove pond to put … Continue reading
When: December 2025 Weather warm 25C at 8am OM1mk2 150-400mm Zuiko Pro Having a bit more time, we returned to this little patch of green to get more practice in with our OM1s. The crowd was bigger being a sunday … Continue reading
When: December 2025 Weather: Hot 26C OM1mk2 150-400mm Zuiko Pro The birding fraternity here in Singapore had been buzzing with the willow warbler for a few weeks but I wasn’t really drawn to yet another similar looking warbler…but then there … Continue reading
