I went to the Singapore Botanic gardens yesterday morning. There were a lot of butterflies and birds and etc. there and I managed to get some photos. So here are some of the wildlife I spotted.
This one here is a chocolate pansy. One of its wings has been damaged. I wonder how. Hopefully it's not because some pesky kid tried to grab its wings. Note to all kids! You can pick up a butterfly by letting it slowly crawl onto your hand. There is no need to grab its wings!
And this cute little creature is a red bellied Squirrel. I found it in the frangipani garden and we mutually surprised each other. Surprisingly, it let me get really close and I managed to get within 1 to 2 meters of it. Isn't it cute?
As for this flighty little bugger, I have absolutely no idea what it is. Found it on the outer edge of the frangipani garden near the rolling stone fountain. It kept hopping from up and down the plant and from twig to twig. Terribly difficult to take picture of. Especially if you are using zoom so as to not scare the bird away. I recall talking to myself as I took this picture. Wonder what the lady nearby must have thought.
This lovely bird is called a Magpie Robin. It wasn't so common in Singapore a while ago and when the bird guide book I'm using was published, it wasn't very common at all. The book mentioned that they had introduced breeding pairs into the botanic gardens and it appears that their efforts had paid off. This was one of the most common birds I saw in the gardens.
In addition to the animals mentioned above, I also saw two bird's nest, a suspected lemon emigrant (butterfly), multiple leopard butterflies, a whole lot of centipedes, some common palmflies (butterflies. I think I saw them. hard to say, they are brown like chocolate pansies), ducks, way too many ants and these were big and a common five-ring (butterfly) which I will elaborate on in the next post.I think I also saw a common Mormon (butterfly) but alas I could not take a picture of it. I took my eyes off it for one second and poof! It vanished. Oh well, better luck next time. I mistook it for a common rose at first but now I think it must be a common Mormon. It's an easy mistake to make, the common Mormon mimics the Common Rose and the main difference between the two is that the Common Rose has a red abdomen while the Common Mormon had a black one. Talk about similar huh? The butterfly world is full of look alikes but again, more of that on my next post.
Ciao
May
Update 21/6/14
I have just been checking out the butterflies of Singapore blog which is up kept by the same people who wrote the butterfly guide book that I am currently using and guess what I found? That there have been new butterflies spotted in Singapore! And not only that, one of the new butterflies is called Red Helen and it looks remarkably like the butterfly I saw in the Botanic gardens. Could it possibly be the Red Helen that I saw? Man! I wish I could have taken a picture but it was just too fast. Now I am not sure if it was a Red Helen or Common Mormon that I saw. Ah, the ups and downs of butterflying.
May
In addition to the animals mentioned above, I also saw two bird's nest, a suspected lemon emigrant (butterfly), multiple leopard butterflies, a whole lot of centipedes, some common palmflies (butterflies. I think I saw them. hard to say, they are brown like chocolate pansies), ducks, way too many ants and these were big and a common five-ring (butterfly) which I will elaborate on in the next post.I think I also saw a common Mormon (butterfly) but alas I could not take a picture of it. I took my eyes off it for one second and poof! It vanished. Oh well, better luck next time. I mistook it for a common rose at first but now I think it must be a common Mormon. It's an easy mistake to make, the common Mormon mimics the Common Rose and the main difference between the two is that the Common Rose has a red abdomen while the Common Mormon had a black one. Talk about similar huh? The butterfly world is full of look alikes but again, more of that on my next post.
Ciao
May
Update 21/6/14
I have just been checking out the butterflies of Singapore blog which is up kept by the same people who wrote the butterfly guide book that I am currently using and guess what I found? That there have been new butterflies spotted in Singapore! And not only that, one of the new butterflies is called Red Helen and it looks remarkably like the butterfly I saw in the Botanic gardens. Could it possibly be the Red Helen that I saw? Man! I wish I could have taken a picture but it was just too fast. Now I am not sure if it was a Red Helen or Common Mormon that I saw. Ah, the ups and downs of butterflying.
May
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