(Posted 5 December 2008)

7^th December 2008 (Sunday). Birdwatching at Kranji Marsh with Ho Hua Chew.

Meet at 7.30 am at the junction of Neo Tiew Lane 2 and Neo Tiew Road. We will take a pleasant walk along a countryside road to Kranji Reservoir where the freshwater marsh is located. The marsh is designated by URA as a nature park called “Kranji Marsh Park”, and will come under NSS adoption within the PUB’s ABC Waters Programme. Birding highlights here include the Red-wattled Lapwing, Purple Swamphen, Rusty-breated Cuckoo, White-browed Crake, Changeable Hawk Eagle, White-bellied Sea Eagle and more. Your ideas and suggestions as to how we can conduct a variety of activities at the marsh land for the promotion of nature appreciation and education amongst the public are most welcome

(Posted 19 June 2008)

Trip Report – by Wing Chong (Trip Leader)

Photos by Dr NY Ho & Bee Yong

Date of trip 25 May 2008

On 25 May 2008, 29 NSS members made a maiden Bird-watching trip to this woodland. While most of this ex-kampong area had been taken over by thick under-growth and gigantic Albizias, there were scattered patches, where elephant grass and bamboo grow in luxuriant. Many fruit trees such as Mata Kuching, Rambutan, Jackfruit, Banana and Durian were still standing among the green. There were also a few large, beautiful specimens, of strangling figs of both Ficus benjamina and Ficus microcarpa species.

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(2 December 2007)

Trip Report – Text and photographs by Wing Chong (Trip Leader)

It was a sunny morning with clear sky as twelve of us set-off for Pulau Semakau on a launch from West Cost Pier. It was first time to the Island for most of the members. Few had very vague idea what Semakau Landfill while others fewer have no idea what Semakau Landfill is. So, at the start of the journey, just when the launch leaving the pier, I jokingly told them …more