Kent Ridge Park

What's a home? Over the past week, the days have become hotter. The winds have died and the windows do not so much as flicker. We need the air-con at night now, and during the day, the floors get dusty much quicker. Last week, I swept, wiped and mopped the floor multiple times in succession, and the floor still felt dirty afterwards. If a home is the carcass of an apartment heated by the evening sun, then there's not much to like about this place. But thankfully, there's the larger picture...

Kent Ridge Park is 46.5 Ha (1 Ha is 100m by 100m) in size. By comparison, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve is 162.6 Ha, the Singapore Botanic Gardens is 52.3 Ha, East Coast Park is 185.5 Ha, and Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is 131.4 Ha. We've lived beside Kent Ridge Park for years, but it's only the last month that I've the time to spare to explore its avifauna. The above is to complete the photo record of birds sighted in this park within the month of March. Discounting mynas, sparrows, doves and pigeons, there is a total of 23 species of birds sighted from casual, by-chance encounters. These are not good photos. They're just for the sake of recording the head count. 9 species have been posted previously. Here are the remaining 14, taken over the last 2 weeks. Their names can be seen when you scroll the cursor over the individual photo.

Chup