27/09 - Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (17 Oct 09)

We met at Kranji MRT station at 7.30am and moved to SBWR at about 7.50am. Our shooting was shooting was supposed to start at the outdoor classroom in the middle of Loop 1. The group was distracted while on our way there as a median size Malayan Monitor lizard was posed very nicely in the middle of the road, and many of us were just having a good time shooting it. The outdoor classroom is just next to a pond and there are many kind of various plants there, which provided us with more opportunity to get macro subjects. We found robberfly, dragonflies and a lot of beautiful bugs which were ,unfortunately, under very difficult lighting condition. Later on, when we were shooting along the way back to the Visitor Centre, there were quite a no. of praying mantis, cicada cast, spiders, etc.

(Praying Mantis by Cai Yixiong)

During our shooting, there were many visitors passing by. Rey, Con and PT Lee who were birding there came to chit-chat for a while. We finished at 12.30 pm and then moved to have lunch at Sungei Kadok. Generally speaking, the site is good but the subjects there were quite spread out in term of area, and many visitors moving around while we were shooting which may have affected our shooting.

Participants (19) : Cai Yi Xiong (Team Leader), Pegi Lee, Ong Lim Sim, Stephen Lim, Lee Yan Leong, Sharon Lim, Agnes Goh, Eugene Hu (with wife and a friend), Yeo Tang Lim, Hazel Han, Kyaw Htay, Joshua Fong, Rosemary, CP Chan, Tan Peck Keng (with nephew) & Shannon Ong.

26/09 - Sungei Ulu Pandan (3 Oct 09)

At first it seemed that there were not many subjects as half of the group walked fast and reached the end of the site. Luckily, some participants concentrated, looked carefully in the bushes and found quite a few subjects just near the entrance to the path. We saw some grass hoppers (common grasshoppers -4 species, uncommon grasshoppers -3 species), plant hoppers, 3 species of katydids, 3 species of moths, 3 species of skippers, 4 species of spiders, 3 caterpillars, stick insect, fleshfly, dragonfly, etc. But the stars of that day were the long caterpillar and the weird looking monkey hoppers which allowed us to take close-up for hours. We ended at about 12 pm and enjoyed our lunch together at TradeHub21.

(Monkey Hopper by Cai Yixiong)

(Long caterpillar by Sharon S. Lim)

Participants (11) : Endy Tan (Team Leader), Cai Yixiong, Vincent See, Simon Ow, Pegi Lee, Yeo TL, Sharon S. Lim, Michael Ooi, Kyaw Htay, CP Chan & Rosemary