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Jan-Sep 2008 sightings
Mangrove Pit Viper at Sungei Buloh
28 Sep 2008
John Spencer
On Sunday morning, 28th September at Sungei Buloh, route 1, a Mangrove Pit Viper Cryptelytrops purpureomaculatus coiled around mangrove branches, about one metre above the water surface (high tide).
Wild Pig at Seletar Camp
23 Sep 2008
Tan KH
Sighted one Wild Pig at Seletar Camp today. All these years, I've not seen a wild pig here! And I thought wild pigs can only be found on Ubin, Tekong and the Western Catchment.
Reticulated Python at Lock Road
7 Sep 2008
Danny Lau
The dead Reticulated Python was a road kill at Lock Road outside the sec. school gate. Looks like spilled out from the gut was a partial decomposed bird with a pair of legs clearly visible.
Mousedeer at Peirce
20 Aug 2008
Ben Lee
Pls see the attached photo of a mousedeer taken last year on 20 August 08 during my conducted vertebrate night walk. Its a long story to tell you how difficult I got this photo of the elusive mouse deer.
Although its a small group of about 8 persons led by me, I spotted the deer in total darkness except when its eye reflected back my small torch shine. All those who saw tot that it was a broken vase that shine from afar but to me, its a living vertebrate as it changes it angle and move a little. I almost give up thinking that it was a vase too but due to my diligence and discipline observation that it dawn on me of what I saw was indeed a living creature in the dark. I soon instructed everyone to froze and instructed my team members to aim the torch on the subject direction indicated by me and I gave them a 1-2-3 signal to shine. Once the light was shone on the subject direction, I began shooting like crazy with my camera in same direction but not really able to see the animal and was hoping to catch some of it on the large pixel pictures. Out of so many shots, I was lucky to be able to find one which I cropped alot from a large 10 megapixel photo. The deer picture was cropped out of the 10 megapixel size photo and it constitute only 1/10 of the photo. The rest of 9/10 nothing but jungle backdrop. Its very difficult to take photo at night and at a long distance. As you can see from the photo, the deer's eye is in total white reflection as it was reflected from the many torch that shine on it which means the deer is still an area of complete darkness.
The day time shot is easy and not so exciting as the night shot. Due to the night shot of the deer, it is difficult to confirm if its a GMD or LMD.
1 Otter and 4 Pigs
2 Aug 2008
Danny Lau and Tan KH
Danny and I were at Warren grassland and were surprised by four Wild Pigs foraging in the grassland. They were equally surprised and ran on sight of us. At Sungei Buloh, a Smooth Otter was seen at the entrance pond.
The mudflat of Chek Jawa
23 May 2008
Tan KH
A visit to the mudflat of Chek Jawa.
Insects at Botanic Gardens
21 Apr, 12 May 2008
Sylvia Chua
Male Blue Dasher (Brachydiplax chalybea) and Indigo Dropwing (Trithemis festiva) on 21 Apr.
Bee and ant at work on 21 Apr.
Scarlet Skimmer (Orthetrum testaceum) and Lesser Grass Blue (Zizina otis lampa) 12 May.
Black Cobra at Marina South
6 Apr 2008
Danny Lau
Found this road kill at Marina South outside Car Park B. Initially thought it spilled its guts but closer look revealed something like an indigested frog or some kind of prey. Estimated length about 5 ft.
Spider and Insects
22, 31 Mar 2008
Sylvia Chua
Jumping spider on 22 Mar.
Female Common Mormon, short-horned grasshopper and female Crimson Dropwing at Botanic Gardens on 31 Mar.
Common Fruit Bat at Geylang East
21 Feb 2008
Lau SY
Common Fruit Bat at Geylang East.
Fiddler Crabs at Pasir Ris
5 Jan 2008
Sylvia Chua
Spotted these tiny crabs at low tide.
Fly River Turtle at Bedok Reservoir
Sometime in 2008
Jeremy Lee
Took a handphone shot of it as it swam past. Came back home and did a google image search and only then did I find out about this Pig Nose Turtle or Fly River Turtle native to PNG I think. Shot to fame in the pet trade I guess...this turtle. Now available at a local reservoir near you.