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Juvenile White Bellied Sea Eagle thrive in our urban island. A pair managed to successfully breed at our Nature Quarry park and was seen flying high and well.
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Juvenile White Bellied Sea Eagle drying up after a dip
Juvenile White Bellied Sea Eagle soaring up high
There are now a family of 5 Smooth Otters who have make Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in Singapore as their home. Recently, I witnessed a pack of wild dogs about 10 of them showing aggressiveness towards these Otters. The Otters were hunting for fish in the water and encountered resistance when they wanted to go on land. Matters was brought forward to the management of Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve as well as the AVA authority to act on this matter so that the Otters can still make this place their home.
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Otters face off with the wild dogs
The Lesser Adjutant is a large bird in the stork family.
It is a huge bird, typically 110-120 cm tall and has a 210 cm wingspan. Its upper body and wings are black, but the belly and undertail are white. The head and neck are bare like those of a vulture.
When they fly, they retract their neck in flight like a heron.
The Lesser Adjutant breeds in wetlands in tropical lowland. It builds a stick nest in trees. It often forms small colonies.They can be found at Parit Jawa fishing village in Malaysia West Coast. The use to breed at at residential site instead of at the swamp areas. They were once found in Singapore but it is now totally confined to Malaysia Muar area.
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Lesser Adjutant
Lesser Adjutant
Have been on the look out for crocodile in our Singapore Nature Reserve for quite sometime hoping to catch them in the wild and to record their nature behaviour.
Finally I managed to find it face to face with me while it was resting and also on the look out for food…I guess.
Crocodile at Singapore Nature Reserve
Crocodile at Singapore Nature Reserve
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No doubt Singapore is a small country and known mostly for its concrete jungle status, it does have its side of tranquality. These shots were taken at the outskirt of this island which reflects a very different perspective of Singapore.
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Sunrise in Singapore
Sunrise in Singapore
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Bang Poo, in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand is an area whereby one can find ponds, mudflats, mangroves and wasteland where locals go for sight seeing, morning walk, to release crabs for merit making and to feed the gulls .
Most people visit this place for the shorebirds called the Brown Headed Seagull. The months between October and May are the best for birdwatching and it is close to Bangkok where one can make a half day trip by taxi, or make a whole day of it by going to Muang Boran Fish Ponds in the morning and then move on to Bang Poo
Seagull
Brown Headed Seagull
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Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve was recognized as a site of international importance for migratory birds with Wetlands International presenting the reserve a certificate to mark its formal entry into the East Asian Australasian Shorebird Site Network, which include Australia’s Kakadu National Park, China’s Mai Po and Japan’s Yatsu Tidal Flats.
Sungei Buloh became Singapore’s first ASEAN Heritage Park in 2003. This shot was taken at the Wetland reserve as the storm starts coming in. Beautiful sight.
Storm coming to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
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The Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis), is small in size and is 23 to 29 cm in length. It is the smallest of the grebe family of water birds and is commonly found in open ponds.
These Little Gebe was facing extinction in Singapore when the last patch of their habitat wasdue for destruction. It was lucky that somehow a handful of them make it to survive at a disused Singapore Quarry that was converted into a nature reserve.
Little Grebe
Little Grebe
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These Little Terns was found to be actively breeding in urban Singapore and it is one of the populated areas.
Little Terns landing
Diving
Courtship of Terns
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The Singapore Art House was a place where the Singapore Government used to hold their Parlimentary sessions. It had since been converted into an Art house. The following photos shows the different approach to taking the Dance performances outside the Art House.
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The Singapore Art Festival 2009 opened on 15 May and will last till 14 June 2009. The Opening was held at Marina Barrage and the spectacular performances by The Hélios II La Compagnie Malabar (France) catch the highlight of the show with the giant praying mantis. There was a pre show performance by a team of young Drummers. These young Drummers had won the most outstanding award in Drum performances.
Festival Opening Helios II
Zingo-Drum Group at Singapore Art Festival
Zingo-Drum Group at Art festival
Zingo-Drum Group at Art Festival
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Singapore Art Festival 2009 – The Hélios II La Compagnie Malabar (France)
Out of Chaos comes an inspired surrealist evocation of the mythological tale of the creation of the sun god, Hélios. Strange mythical insects, builders of light and worshippers of the sun, emblazon the dark night in a breathtaking symphony of lights and sounds and conjure up a fantastic spectacle harking back to a time of myth.
Witness as French urban theatre extraordinaires La Compagnie Malabar brings to life the construction of the sun god at its zenith, with a spectacular procession of circus artists, performances, music and dazzling pyrotechnic displays.
Hélios II La Compagnie Malabar (France)
Hélios II La Compagnie Malabar
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Social networking sites ‘keep deleted photos
LONDON, ENGLAND – User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites including Facebook after people have deleted them, British researchers said Thursday.
The findings by a team from Cambridge University raise questions about the ability of users of the sites to permanently delete potentially embarrassing photographs.
The researchers posted photographs on 16 popular websites and noted the web addresses where the images were stored, before deleting them.
But researchers said that although the images appeared to have gone, they were still able to find them 30 days later on seven sites, including Facebook, by using the direct web addresses.
Special photo-sharing sites, such as Flickr and Google’s Picasa, fared better than Facebook and Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces removed the photos instantly, the research found.
Joseph Bonneau, an American member of the research team, told AFP: “When you delete a photo, many of the sites don’t actively remove it, they basically just wait for it be overwritten.
“In theory, the photos could take months to disappear.
“It is possible to have them removed right away but it takes more work on their part so it is easier for them just to leave it.
“They have a responsibility to ensure users’ privacy and they are not fulfilling that responsibility.”
A spokesman for Facebook said that while photographs are deleted from the site immediately, they may continue to exist for a short time elsewhere.
“When a user deletes a photograph from Facebook it is removed from our servers immediately,” the spokesman told the BBC.
“However, URLs to photographs may continue to exist on the Content Delivery Network (CDN) after users delete them from Facebook, until they are overwritten.
“Overwriting usually happens after a short period of time.”
Article from AsiaOne.com
Sharing some of the moments taken at the opening of the Singapore Art Festival 2009. Performance of Hélios II
La Compagnie Malabar (France) at the ground level around the Marina Barrage was the main catch of the show where a large praying mantis added much life to the opening.
Hélios II La Compagnie Malabar (France)
The actors of Hélios II
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As part of the Festival of Arts events that is on going now, these 2 artistes put up a splendid work at the foyer of the Victoria Theater.
Spray Art painting
The Artist at work
The artist final touch with a torch.
Teamwork
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Singapore Art Festival
Art Festival performances
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Crackers? is a celebration of the explosive and dangerous beauty of fire and fireworks and an exploration of our attitudes to Risk.
Crackers? combines fireworks, projection, performance and music. Performed ‘in the round’, with the audience surrounded by fire & smoke, spinning wheels and fireworks. A symphony of pyrotechnic sounds fills the air. It’s loud, disorientating and cacophonous, but there are moments of delicate and profound beauty…dancing flames, giant Catherine Wheels and the ‘human sparkler’…
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