Now I go to Gardens by the Bay very often but seldom do I venture beyond the two domes. This time, however, was different. My friend had a project she needed to do and we visited the gardens looking for ideas. Of course, for an ecology project, these ideas came from animals. so we tried our very best to look for them. Boy did we find them! I have never regretted leaving my camera behind so much. Now I will have to content with those taken by my camera. But just to give you an idea of what we saw:
- several plain tigers (butterflies)
- yellow vented bulbul
- white breasted water hen
- little heron
- grey heron
- various fish
- pond skater/ water strider
- Water monitor lizard
- Olive backed Sunbird (female usually)
- Golden Pheasant
- apple snail eggs
- spotted doves
- various lizards
- the usual mynahs, swallows and sparrows
- painted Jezebels (butterfly)
- Apple snail eggs
- Several dragonflies
- Damsel flies
- Several butterflies which we could not identify
- Homosapien (Us)
Wow, now that I put it together, that is quite a list. I didn't manage to get a picture of everything of course. But I am glad I saw them. It was a most productive trip. Enough talk now, photos! As poorly taken as they are...
I don't know if you can see it but there is supposed to be a orange gold dragonfly in the center of the photo
Spotted Dove. This one was slightly injured but we couldn't do anything.
The Golden Pheasant is found in the aviary. A truly magnificent bird. I am not too sure about its camouflage ability though.
A sunbathing lizard
Behind the frog statue, on the rocks, is a little heron.
Water monitor lizard swimming in Kingfisher lake.
A grey heron standing over a meter tall. We saw it fly out of the undergrowth and it took us completely by surprise. A very pleasant surprise too. But it was so far away. If only I had my camera!
I think these are morning glories. Whatever they are, they look beautiful in the shifting sunlight.
Homosapien, the most populous creature in GBB. There are too many of them!
It was a really fun day and the amount of wildlife we saw was phenomenal. It was great!
I have to do this again,
May K.