Wallace Trail is a well shaded trail with varied terrain at Diary Farm Nature Park. The last time we hiked on this trail was about three month ago. We went there again today (Oct 8, 2023).
Starting from car park B, we went south in the direction of Wallace education center, to hike on the portion of Wallace trail we missed last time. The dense woods provided the shade we needed from the burning Sun, and the uneven rough trail provided the feel of hiking in the wild :).
I heard the bird calls from white headed laughingthrushes, but did not spot them, and later I saw some small monkeys in the trees, jumping up and down. Apparently, a few them were playing. Turing around the corner, I spotted two monkeys breast feeding their babies on the trunk of a leaning tree, and a few more monkeys were nearby. A young monkey was foraging from one tree branch to another.
We went on to Singapore quarry, hopping for some more exciting bird watching there. There were no kingfishers around this time, but there was still a crowd of photographers on the observation deck! I saw no other birds. A couple minutes later, a big bird flew in, and landed on a high tree branch - a grey headed fish eagle. While all the photographers were waiting for the eagle to hunt, another eagle took off from the tree top behind dense leaves with a large stick in its beak. I did not notice this one earlier. But I saw it to the south of the quarry, and following its flight I saw a giant nest.
A photographer threw biscuits into the water to bait fishes, in hope that the eagle would dive for the jumping fishes. The baits not only attracted fishes, it also attracted a monitor lizard! Free food was too appealing.
The eagle eventually flew away to its nest at the far end of the quarry. The hope of seeing the eagle diving for fishes was gone for now.
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| southern tip of Singapore Quarry |
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| a grey headed fish eagle |
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| Eagle nest |
In addition to fauna, flora was plentiful as well. We saw fig trees many times before, the last time on Wallace trail as well as other places. What somewhat surprised us was the amount of figs on this tree, then we saw another fig tree with different figs. There are a variety of trees and flowers, just hard for to tell what is what even with help from Google lens.
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| yellow stem fig? |
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| ivy leaved morning glory |
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| Costus |
We completed the 4 miles hike in leisure pace in 2 hours, and enjoyed it.
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