life in singapore … with baby (and new baby)
Posted in baby stuff, birds on Jun 12th, 2010
This morning I had to yank Olive off a footpath before she was mown down by a victoria crowned pigeon from New Guinea which was being chased by a lemur from Madagascar which was itself being pursued by an angry spotted whistling duck from Australia. Like a scene from the movie Jumanji, this procession of [...]
Posted in baby stuff, birds on May 2nd, 2010
Olive and I spent a wonderful Saturday morning at the bird park. Concerned that one of the pelicans was sitting alone on land instead of joining its friends in the lake, Olive announced: “Pelican cannot swim, pelican no swimming costume.” At the penguin pool, Olive was more interested in looking for sharks and, unimpressed by [...]
Last weekend I followed a dozen Nature Society of Singapore (NSS) birders, led by Sutari bin Supari (aka Malay pot-bellied laughing thrush), to Tanjung Tuan on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia to witness the annual raptor migration from Sumatra to Malaysia.
This being my first overseas NSS trip, I was somewhat anxious to find [...]
Posted in birds on Nov 17th, 2009
[Photo of a black baza by zzlaloq]
In England I used to listen out for the first cuckoo of the year, which heralds the arrival of Spring; in Singapore I eagerly await the arrival of the first flocks of black bazas, which for me is a reminder that Christmas is just around the corner. Black bazas [...]
