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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Dec 19, Singapore Botanical Gardens Made it to the gardens today to check out the current star, a Malayan Night Heron which is a rare winter visitor to Singapore. 669. Malayan Night Heron
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 15, an update from Doi Inathon Somehow I'd failed to tag an image taken at Doi Inathon in Sept with an ID and just noticed. Since I wasn't certain of the id I posted in the ID thread and thanks to Dalat got a confirmation of Yellow-browed Tit 668. Yellow-browed Tit
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Dec 1, Bedok, Singapore Went for a stroll at lunch time to a (very) small area of undeveloped land near the Bedok train(MRT) station which is basically an area of grass with plenty of tall trees - but since its not called a park you won't see anyone else walking through it! When crossing the...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Nov 15, Pulau Ubin Seem to be doing well with new birds for my Singapore lifelist at the moment with migrating raptors. Picked up my 283rd Singapore bird in the form of a Grey-faced Buzzard. Also added to my 2009 Singapore list were Whiskered Tern and White-rumped Munia. Bringing the 2009 SG...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Nov 12, Bedok, Singapore Not a new bird for 2009 but a new bird for Singapore were two immature Greater Spotted Eagles riding a thermal. This is now my 200th Singapore bird for 2009 and 282nd on my Singapore lifelist.
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Nov 11, Singapore Walking to the bus stop today to go to work and some insistent calling from a tree eventually got me on to a juvenile Little Bronze Cuckoo - even with the calling was difficult to spot until its foster parent, a Golden-bellied Gerygone, gave it away by flying in and feeding...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Oct 20, Dairy Farm Nature Park My first visit to this new park which opened last month which backs onto Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. Starting to get more migrants passing through and picked up two rare passage migrants in a Grey-streaked Flycatcher and a Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Oct 10, Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve, Singapore Headed out for an afternoon looking at all the visiting waders and picked up 3 new birds for 2009. 660. Curlew Sandpiper 661. Little Ringed Plover 662. Broad-billed Sandpiper Also of note was my first Saltwater Crocodile for 3 years which was...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Oct 3, Pulau Ubin I spent the morning looking for migrants and didn't find very many. However did get my first Violet Cuckoo for a couple of years. 659. Violet Cuckoo
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 30, Lower Pierce Reservoir Back in Singapore and did a little owling around Lower Pierce Reservoir. 658. Buffy Fish Owl
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 19, Chiang Dao, Thailand Most of today was spent birding various locations above the checkpoint on the road to Muang Kong checking different habitats at various altitudes. 648. Puff-throated Babbler 649. Blue-throated Barbet 650. Eastern Jungle Crow 651. Olive-backed Pipit 652. Great...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 15, An update Discovered that the split Great Tits which I'd been assuming were Cinereous Tits as per Peninsula Malaysia which I've already seen this year are in fact Japanese Tits. 647. Japanese Tit
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 18, Thailand An early morning start with a hike along Mae Per Forest Trail on Doi Ang Khang and picked up a few more lifers 632. Ashy Wood Pigeon 633. Maroon Oriole 634. Grey-headed Parrotbill 635. Mountain Bamboo Partridge It was then back to the trail at the km21 mark where I got brief...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 17, Thailand Time to leave Doi Inathon and do the long drive to Doi Ang Khang. The first 2009 bird of the day was seen at around the 14km mark of the descent 621. Black-winged Cuckooshrike Having arrived at Doi Ang Khang the first new birds were in the village of Ban Luang 622. Ashy...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 16, Doi Inathon, Thailand Up early to reach the second checkpoint before dawn for morning feast by the birds on all the bugs attracted to the lights. The first bird though was 10m from my tent, a Black-tailed Crake 599. Black-tailed Crake Having reached the checkpoint birds started coming...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 15, Doi Inathon, Thailand Up before dawn and saw a calling Brown Wood Owl in the grounds before leaving to head up the mountain 575. Brown Wood Owl First birding stop of the morning was the Ridge top trail at km13. Very quiet until I'd actually walked almost to the top of the ridge when...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 14 Up early and headed out to Mae Hia Agricultural College on the outskirts of Chiang Mai for some open country birding 557. Pied Bushchat 558. Wire-tailed Swallow 559. Grey-breasted Prinia 560. Black-necked Starling 561. Indochinese Bushlark 562. Red-whiskered Bulbul 563. Streak-eared...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 13, Chiang Mai, Thailand First new bird for 2009 was seen upon arrival at Chiang Mai airport, Great Myna. 551. Great Myna After dropping things off at the hotel made a quick trip out to Huai Hong Khrai for the Green Peafowl and surprised to see some Brown Prinia along with the common...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 9, Sabah, Malaysia An early start and headed to the Tambunan Rafflesia Centre on the way picking up two lifers - the first Mountain Serpent Eagle over the road and the second Black-headed Pitta in a stand of bamboo we'd had a rest stop at. 545. Mountain Serpent Eagle 546. Black-headed...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 8, Mt Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Malaysia Headed to Poring Hotsprings first thing in the morning and did the canopy walk as soon as it opened. After the canopy walk did the lower part of the trail to the first waterfall. 533. White-crowned Shama 534. Hair-crested Drongo 535...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 7, Mt Kinabalu The day started with a lifer from our balcony 519. Sunda Cuckoo-Shrike 520. Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush First birding of the day was done around the powerstation before heading down Bukit Ular trail. 521. Bare-headed Laughingthrush 522. Sunda Laughingthrush 523. Bornean...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Sep 6 Headed to Mt. Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia for short break with my son taking advantage of Tiger Airways cheap tickets. This is my first visit to Borneo since getting serious about birding - hence some strange birds here which are lifers and some that aren't (if I'd previously photographed...
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Aug 1 Picked up a lifer today in one of Singapore's rarer residents, Thick-billed Spiderhunter. 508. Thick-billed Spiderhunter
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Jul 5, Pulau Ubin, Singapore Back in Singapore and spent the day hiking around Ubin with its varied habitat. Two new year birds found, first a Rufous Woodpecker followed later by a juvenile Banded Bay Cuckoo. 506. Rufous Woodpecker 507. Banded Bay Cuckoo
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    Viator (Mike Hooper)'s 2009 List

    Jul 1 Time is up and its the ~500Km drive back to Singapore. Since we had all day we took our time and headed back down the old road road rather than the quicker (but 50+km longer) route via Simpang Pulai. This meant frequent stops to check out the view as we descended and some road side...
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