Kimpriority Travel

Tuesday.  Weather forecast : Rain clearing in the morning.   Windsor Nature Park Boardwalk. A boardwalk within the MacRitchie Reservoir park. A park that is not famous for birding except for 1 or 2 occasions when some kingfishers arrived. I only realised recently that the Upper Thomson MRT station is located at Thomson Plaza, which is 1.5 bus stop away from this park. This makes waking to this park from the MRT possible for me. Birders has posted that there are 3 cuckoos sighted here 2 days ago. I tell myself to just visit within a week from 1st sighting and not to keep my hope too high.  Usually, migrants will leave after 1 week upon 1st landed. Windsor Nature Park entrance, where the toilet is. It took me at least 15mins to walk from Upper Thomson MRT here. When I arrived at near to 9am, I saw a group of photographers aiming their camera into the green. This is a common sign that birds were spotted and I joined them right away. Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo . True enough, this black bi

 Thursday, Sunny day in the afternoon. Arctic Warbler. Reached about 11am and the tide was high again. My 1st bird spotted was this common migrant. There were so many of them, especially at the look out point on these mangrove trees branches in the middle of the river. The place is more quiet today, perhaps some already gotten what they wanted to spot the day before and did not visit today.  Sulphur-crested  cockatoo. Since there isn't much happening at the boardwalk, I walked over to the Fourth Gun Position area at Labrador park area. While on the way back, I saw the cockatoos family at the seaside area. The young one is holding on its parent by biting on its parents wings.  Sulphur-crested  cockatoo. The active younger cockatoo, never stop moving.  Sulphur-crested  cockatoo. So glad to meet another lifer.  Sulphur-crested  cockatoo. Slowly, the birder's started to gather here to watch this pair.  Straited Heron. The tide is high and this heron looks perfect above the clear bl

 Tuesday, Sunny day. Berlayer Creek Boardwalk. Birders has shared that a Ruddy Kingfisher, a rare migrant has been spotted here since 22 Oct, so hubby decided to come here to "busybody" a bit since he was on leave. Unlike other days, lots of people were seen at the boardwalk when we arrived around 10am.  Tide was high, since I did not see any birders crowding at any particular location(mening no birds spotted), we went for a walk at Bukit Chermin Boardwalk before it gonna be close for maintenance work from 3 Nov 2022 to 31st Mar 2023. Asian Brown Flycatcher. When we returned and entered into Berlayer Creek Boardwalk from Bukit Chermin Boardwalk, we met this Asian Brown Flycatcher high up on the tree.  Birders and bird photographers were everywhere. At the first look out point (nearer to the sea area) they were here waiting for the appearance of the Taiga Flycatcher .  Arctic Warbler. Spotted the Arctic Warbler, big ones at this look out point but none of the birders here were