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White-Bellied Sea Eagle

06 Aug

White-Bellied Sea Eagle are quite a common sight in Singapore. They are also known as Fish Eagle. Here are two images that merge into one to show the sequence of the raptor coming in and getting its morning breakfast. I decided to blend the two images together using digital imaging method and I guess it blended well in this case.

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White Bellied Sea Eagle

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7th Singapore Gymnastic Open Championships 2010

22 Jun

7th Singapore Gymnastic Open Championships 2010 just ended.
The gymnastics consisted of the artistic gymnastics and Men’s events.
Artistic gymnastics typically involves the women’s events of uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, trampoline and vault. Men’s events include floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, trampoline and high bar. The photos reflects the moments captured during the intense competition.

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Moments on Floor exercise

Moments on Parallel bars

Moments on Balance beam

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8th SEAGCON Junior Gymnastic Championship

21 Jun

8th SEAGCON Junior Gymnastic Championship
7th Singapore Gymnastic Open Championships 2010

The Junior Gymnastic Championship was held at Bishan Sports Hall from 10 June 2010 and comprises of the Vault, Parallel Bars, artistic Gym on the Floor and Beam. The juniors put up splendid performances which makes perfect photographic opportunities.

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The perfect spread on the Floor

The perfect Jump on the Floor

The Parallel Bars

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Common Asian Koel

25 Apr

The Common Asian Koel could be heard calling out loudly in the gardens during morning hours. I managed to catch this Koel calling out and infact have a good view of it. What happened next was pretty interesting as the Koel looks like opening its mouth wide while no sound was generated. It took a while before the Koel finally threw out a pellet.

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Common Asian Koel calling out loud

Common Asian Koel throwing out a pellet

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Baya Weaver Birds

03 Apr

The Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus) is a small bird found in Asia. In Singapore, their breeding seasons takes place in April and one can see their nest along the banks of unused roads. Flocks of these birds are found in grasslandsand they are best known for their hanging retort shaped nests woven from leaves. These nest colonies are usually found on thorny trees or palm fronds and the nests are often built near water or hanging over water where predators cannot reach easily.

Baya Weaver Birds

Home Sweet Home

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Juvenile White Bellied Sea Eagle

10 Dec

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.

More photos can be viewed at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/storphotography
http://www.storphotography.com.

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Juvenile White Bellied Sea Eagle drying up after a dip

Juvenile White Bellied Sea Eagle soaring up high

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Lesser Adjutant

03 Dec

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.

More photos can be viewed at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/storphotography
http://www.storphotography.com.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVE @COPYRIGHT STEVEN TOR. Strictly no usage of my photographs without the permission from Steven Tor the author.

Lesser Adjutant

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Bang Poo, in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand

25 Nov

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 .

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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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Little Grebe

23 Nov

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.