We were greeted with a cloudy morning at the meeting point and it appeared that it would rain anytime. Nevertheless, we carried on with our shooting plan. There were plenty of uncommon and rare subjects along the way to keep our macro shooters busy as we moved forward into the forested area.
(Four-ridged Toad by Anthony Quek)
These included a no. of caterpillars, many spiders (some with preys), robberflies, unusual flies or mosquitoes, dragonflies, damselflies, green tree snail, etc. A strange white-coloured bug was also sighted but we didn’t manage to capture it in pixel as it kept jumping around.
(A beautiful moth by John Wong)
As we progressed further into the forest, the natural lighting was getting slighting better, although thunders were more frequent and louder. Inevitably, it finally rained at 10.15 am when we reached the 2nd last stream (i.e. the place where we found the “red crab” in our previous outing). We took cover under the waterpipe, packed up and decided to call it a day.
(Spiky catepillar by Kyaw Htay)
Strangely, about 5 minutes later, the rain suddenly stopped. Teck Nam & I decided to do a U-turn and went further into the last stream. We were rewarded with a critically endangered damselfly (purple-coloured form hyalina) and a rare dragonfly (Macrogomphus quadrates).
(Dragonfly - Macrogomphus quadratus by Anthony Quek)
We ended our outing at 12 pm and had lunch at the nearby Causurina Curry Restaurant.
Participants (6) : Anthony Quek (Team Leader) , Kyaw Htay, Teck Nam, Ngee Chye, John Wong & Eddy Lee
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