Bishan Ang Mo Kio Park

We visited Bishan Ang Mo Kio Park in January 2022, and liked it very much - it was an oasis in the jungle of concrete! beautiful, elegant and full of Flora and Fauna... This Sunday (August 11, 2024) we went to Bishan Ang Mo Kio park again for an easy hike and the beautiful landscape. Somehow the park we visited today was similar but different from what we remembered!

It turned out that the park is divided by Marymount road into two parts, the west part, which we visited in 2022, and the east part we visited today. 

East Bishan Ang Mo Kio Park

Kallang river runs by at the south side of the park. Many buildings line both north and south side of the park. The park has beautiful greenery - trees, grasses, plants, bushes. The resident birds include grey herons, purple herons, white breast waterhens, and black napped orioles.

There is a small butterfly habitat in the park, it has a few species of butterflies, including Tawny Coster.

The sculpture "An Enclosure For A Swing" is the unique feature at the east Bishan Ang Mo Kio park. The sculpture stands on a small hill - recycle hill, where one can view the entire east park from west to east.

pedestrian bridge over Kallang river

stepping stones for river crossing

a grey heron resting on a tree

a purple heron standing on plants in the river

a waterhen standing in a side stream to Kallang

Tawny Coster 

An Enclosure For A Swing

West Bishan Ang Mo Kio Park

We visited west side of the park in 2022. At that time I wrote about that visit in a wechat Moment.

"In the jungle of concretes - Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park 

As we were approaching the Park, it was depressing to drive between the massive high-rise apartment buildings. So it was really a big pleasant surprise to see this beautiful garden park...truly an oasis in the jungle of concrete.

Lush plants and grasses along the storm drainage river, elegant ponds, with many familiar birds ... mag pie robins, black napped orioles, yellow vented bulbuls, great grey herons, egrets, and a couple 'new' species - orange cheeked waxbills, cocoi heron. Many fishes in the river. Beautiful and lively. 

The place is worth a visit"

orange cheeked waxbills

Note

I was surprised that I did not write about the first visit to Bishan Ang Mo Kio park in my blog. Looking back, it turned out that I was busy writing blogs about our Maui trip at that time. I recounted the first visit in 2022 year end summary of our Singapore outdoor experience.