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This is interesting though! Pufferfish swallowed by Collared KF!

"http://besgroup.talfrynature.com/2009/11/08/collared-kingfisher-eats-pufferfish/"

This is interesting though! Pufferfish swallowed by Collared KF!

Hello, just wanted to say that I will be pretty inactive - till Jan next year :)

Sorry about it!

Just a short update to let you know I am alive (lol).

Today MY and I went to Dairy Farm Nature Park in the morning! It was pouring at first but the sky soon cleared, so that's great! We saw some interesting thingies, and it was a nice & cooling walk especially just after the shower!


1. Tree Shrew , the animal on the right-hand side - We actually saw this but didn't manage to get a photo. It's really cute!


2. Maiden Veil Fungus, also known as the Stinkhorn - Wow! It's really pretty. It actually can be eaten! Look here. We saw a couple of other fungus growing as well, like the bright orange coloured ones and other white ones as well. Not sure what their IDs are.


3. A special Snail - Not sure of it's ID yet!

4. Black Mormon - We saw this as well, it fluttering about, sucking the nectar with its long probocis.

Managed to find some time to visit the Exhibition today (: It's pretty interesting, there're preserved insect/ plant specimens displayed, with information about evolution/ Darwin/ Wallace as individuals. :) Too bad it's ending already - 31st Aug.

These were found over at the canal! Sorry I haven't been blogging. It's been alot of studying these days.

Went really early in the morning... so I was there to catch the "waking up of birds", they were really making alot of "noise"! But they were mainly the Mynas and Glossy Starlings.

Striated Heron (I think) found rather common


White-throated Kingfisher

Insects mainly & sceneries:

I was guiding with the Sea Slugs group yesterday. I had a great time, as usual! On this trip, we got to see the huuuuge animals! And we also saw three different types of flatworms and "recruited" them into our group.

What we saw at the Intertidals:

(a) Huge Oscellated Sea Cucumber
(b) Ball Moon Snail (!)
(c) Fiddler Crabs at the Bakau Trees
(d) Sandfish Sea Cucumber
(e) Common Sea Star
(f) Oysters
(g) Sponges (Pink, Blue, Yellow, Brown)
(h) Hairy Crab x 3
(i) Flatworms x 3 types (Beige flatworm, Orange-Striped flatworm, Persian-carpet flatworm) (!)
(j) Knobbly Sea Star
(k) Polka-dotted Nudibranch
(l) Giant Carpet Anemone with Anemone Shrimp
(m) Synaptid Sea Cucumber
(n) Giant Clam x 2 (juvenile & adult)
(o) Many casts of the Acorn Worm
(p) Eggs of the Spiral Melongela
(q) Pimply Leathery Coral
(r) Smooth Leathery Coral (!)

& the same Bracket fungus was there at the logs! Brown spores were present again. How interesting...

Will post again with photographs soon (I hope).