Collections of New Bird Photos

We have recorded 112 species of birds since we started bird watching. We spotted the last dozen this year. Here are the photos for some of them.

During our recent trip to Malaysia (October 29th), we saw several large wading birds at Johor Strait across from Tuas, Singapore. Initially we thought they were herons, upon further examinations of photos taken, they turned out to be lesser adjutants. Lesser adjutant is supposed to be solitary, but we saw three of them waded together. It was close to mating season (November - December), so that could be reason they started to congregate.

We saw two new birds at Jurong Lake Garden two weeks ago: Blue throated bee eater, and Red-wattled lapwing, a single one stood in a trench.

On October 24th, at Pasir Ris Park, we spotted this tiny bird while enjoying evening breeze at the beach. Initially we thought it was a sun bird, but it has uniquely different color patterns on its head - black strips by the eyes, it is Yellow fronted canary (a passerine bird).

Earlier in the year, we saw Scarlet headed flowerpecker on NTU campus. Its calls are bright, high pitch and short

We spotted this cute blue love bird at Pulau Ubin. Love birds typically have green feathers, yellow collar, red beak. The blue love birds are mutations from common love birds, blue feathers, grey/white collar and yellow beak

We saw quite a few new birds during our London trip, we saw European Robin, Common Starling, Egyptian Goose, Bar Headed Goose, Common Moorhen, and Japanese Tit.