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Blue-throated bee eater

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Ting ting ting

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Scaly Munia

On a stalk of long grass

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My Portrait

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Homing

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Like a Hummer

But only a male Olive-backed sunbird inspecting the nest (in progress). As always, only eye power like cyclop does.

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Return of the Olive-backed sunbird

With a cobweb trailing its feet. Shown female bringing nesting material whilst male standby elsewhere to observe. This behavior is markedly different from the baya weaver, where the male performed nest material gathering and nest building task to entice the female. Seems the Olive is a traditional macho family.

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Prinia song III

I revisited the nesting ground and observed to my horror that the tall grass had received a cool pruning job by the gardeners! Almost fainted cause the nest is completely gone with the tall grass trimmed. Fortunately, the feathers appeared to be adapting well to this man-made disturbance and moved further in towards thicker tall grass areas. I only wished those gardeners do no receive any future instructions to remove trim those too. The consequence would be dire for these poor feathers!

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Nature

The hornbill nesting behavior has come to a successful closure and with good fortunes two chicks were hatched with single chick observed to leave nest early, presumably with the seal-in female. One juv chick was left in the nest with daddy hornbill observed to perform express delivery services to the fledging bird in an attempt to hasten the growing up process. Food comprises of berries and lizards during the initial stage post initial hatching period. Towards the latter stage, the male was observed to bring dead chicks presumably to add more carbohydrates to the juv's diet. Just a week ago, the last chick left for a happy ending. Observations will be published in Nature (in Singapore) soon 

Portrait

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Prinia Song II

Angel of Music

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Home

Sometimes the best place is rite at home.

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Prinia Song

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About Munia

i.e. Chestnut

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Perch

This Paddy Field Pipit is not on the ideal perch that I wanted it to be but I guess this should be just fine. When spooked, it will choose this stick to perform surveillance on its vicinity before flying off to another location.

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