29/09 - Night Macro @ Venus Drive (7 Nov 09)

We had a successful 3rd night macro outing in Venus Drive with 16 macro enthusiast attended. The weather was fine except that the initial part of the ground was a little damp and wet due to the previous days of rain. Other than that, most of us enjoyed the outing. It was also a good experience for those first timers in night macro.

We saw many lynx spiders, very common in the day and yet they are also quite active at night. Sac spider, some sort of garden spider spinning its web, St. Andrew Cross spiders, Cyrtarachne Bufo spider, many bull frogs that stayed in the open, middle of track, preying on insects. A few brown-coloured praying mantis, many snails, hoppers and sleeping dragonflies.

The stars of the night were the Stick Insect, Scorpion and the Bioluminescence Fungus. We spent about 3.5 hrs in the dark trail and left before 11.00 pm.

Pictures: (Scropion by Cai Yixiong, Bioluminescence Fungi by Allan Lee, Hopper by Lee Yan Leong)

Participants (16) : Allan Lee (Team Leader), Cai Yixiong, Lee Yan Leong, Sharon Lim with a friend, Pegi Lee, Richard Er, Wei Luen, Jess, Catherine Sum, Hazel Han, Michael Ooi, Eugene Hu, Hanry Wong, Ngee Chai & Anthony Quek

28/09 - Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West (31 Oct 09)

A little drizzle was not an obstacle for 13 enthusiastic Macro Shooters. They came down all the way (some stay in Jurong and Bedok) to meet us, to hone their nature photographic skills. The rain brought us luck. We did not go far (exploring the other areas, the fern garden, open bushes, and shaded woods/old rubber plantation.), just concentrated on a stretch of the lotus pond. We found interesting water droplets everywhere, fishing spiders, frogs (big and small), a butterfly, 4 nos. of big hairy beautiful yellow caterpillars, pretty lotuses, and the star of the day was a newly emerged dragonfly (right picture by Yixiong). The outing ended at about 11am when the sky was gloomy again. We all had a great time, and had lunch together at a hawker centre behind the public library.

(Newly Emerged Dragonfly by Allan Lee)

Participants (13) : Endy Tan (Team Leader), Joshua Fong, Cai Yi Xiong, Pegi Lee, Joe Tan, Allan Lee, Agnes Goh, Michael Ee, Sheereen Ng, CP Chan, Rosemary, Michael Neo & Patrick Tay