Sungei Buloh Trip

It was pretty cool. I’m a (wannabe) wildlife photographer, so I’m fairly used to walking around our parks and reserves, spotting and taking photographs of (or atleast, trying to) our native fauna. I’d hardly ever been to SBWR though, despite it being the best place to go birding in Singapore. It’s pretty remote and I’m not a fan of shorebirds – they all look the same to me.

However, I got to see some pretty interesting and new fauna species during my time there. Before even entering the reserve Jason and I saw a White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) hanging out in a huge tree in the distance. It was pretty close to a huge nest, but unfortunately we didn’t see any juveniles (yet!). There was also a whole bunch of male Changeable Lizards (Calotes versicolor), sporting their iconic red colors and just hanging around, basking on trees.

There was plenty of vertebrate life around the reserve that day (Malay Water Monitors, House Crows harassing a pair of WBSEs, plenty of Ardeids and plovers, a Common Sandpiper, and an Asian Brown Flycatcher), but most were too far for my potato camera to capture. Invertebrate life though, was everywhere. Honestly that was my highlight haha.