Diving and seafood consumption

Or none of the above?

In my backyard

Second foray into the grassland behind my house - which used to have so many nice mature trees till the developers cut it all down to grow cowgrass for sale. sigh. Only just started exploring it after so many years of living here...

super blur but quite artistic pose (to me) of a long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)

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Leafhopper (Bythoscopus ferrugineus)

accidentally underexposed the second shot but came out so nice! :)

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Tawny coster (Acraea violae)

Apparently first observed in Singapore in 2006. Read about its journey from India to SG here.

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Female blue pansy (Junonia orithya)

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Male striped albatross (Appias libythea olferna)

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Sengkang Forest

Reviving this blog, just to keep track of the stuff i've been seeing/learning. Critters seen in Sengkang forest the saturday that just passed. yet another unexplored area shared by sy.

Common Palm Dart (Telicota colon stinga)

A skipper recently re-instated to the Singapore butterfly list. As can be seen in this photo, skippers adopt unique basking postures: with the forewings open halfway and hindwings open fully.

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Unknown moth

Kept thinking my photo was blur but it's just an effect of the moth scales.

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Ricaniid planthopper (Ricanula stigmatica)

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Cricket (Nisitrus vittatus)

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Mini-watermelon! According to sy, Gymnopetalum sp.

more! :)

same plant with apparently ripened 'watermelons' - looking totally different

See Sy's blog for more of the plants seen.

Bye bye bluefin...

Saw this comic on ConservationBytes blog and felt it apt to post given the recent news on the failed bid on the international trade ban of bluefin. a pretty optimistic view of the issue has been posted on Grist. I quote:

"Thursday's vote puts the fate of Atlantic bluefin tuna back in the hands of International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas , the very body that drove the species to the disastrous state it is now in, but also the body that rebuilt North Atlantic swordfish to a sustainable level in less than 10 years, ahead of the rebuilding deadline. Also, remember: it is the consumer in the global market economy who has turned the bluefin into a prestige product -- and thus given fisherman an overwhelming incentive to overfish it."

Although, the skeptic in me wonders if it's possible for Japanese (or Asians for that matter) to ever decrease their consumption of the fish. will be more hopeful if there's a proper response to the dolphin slaughtering highlighted by the cove. let's wait and see..