Sunday Oct 06 2013 - Yishun park ( yet again )

Yishun park Sunday 07 Oct '13.  

 I didn't expected anything new but I brought along the camera just in case as well as the tiger balm cream to ward-off mosquitoes bite. Near the ponds the usual water birds were there but I  ignored them having taken so many shots of them before.  Further into the park  a few birds were seen picking off the orange-red berries from the tree branches. I stood beneath the tree and trying to get a few decent shots with most of them heads obscured by leaves. From the lens i can see the berries were tempting.

Attracted by the small orange red berries several birds were busy feasting on this tree. 

 We revisited this tarap tree in the park and found it bears plenty of small young fruits. They never manage to grow into the mature size i saw in Borneo.  I zeroed in a sun lit pair - picking a sterile one and a successfully formed one for comparison. You can discern the bristle hair found on terap. ( as contrast to breadfruit and jackfruit ).

Tarap fruit - sterile and normal fruit ( larger one)

Handkerchief tree flower

I bet most will look up the durian trees there and i am no exception. Small clusters of durian fruits  can be seen dangling from the branches. A few spoiled ones were the work of squirrels which managed to shear off the spiky thick outer husk.  Else where the rambutans ( hairy lichee) are fruiting too. 

Kite and a tiny white dot of a passing jet. The kite is the leading kite pulling a string of other cartoons characters which appeared to fail to get airborne.  The threads rewinder looks like a small wheel to me. 

Small rambutan fruits

Bukit Timah Police transmitter station? Used to be one tower but recent time they have added another one.  

This monkey  snatched away a small girl's  HelloKitty bag thinking there is food inside. 

Near the entrance to the Dairy Farm Loop I noticed the 'grass' patch had blossomed with  tiny purplish stamens and pink pedals.

On the stony steps down the Renghas road the familiar flowers bloomed again. This time I flipped the LCD so i can shoot the yellow orange thick petals straight up.  What you see is an almost empty interior - nice cavity for taking a shelter underneath this bell shaped flower perhaps.

Bukit Timah Dairy Farm Loop - Summit.  On Saturday I managed to get a shot of the racket-tailed black color Drongo near Bukit Timah Summit ( 263 M). This bird can mimic the call of others.

A green color snail inches her way up the trunk but sensed my presence and retracted the feelers.

those little things - Nikon P7000 manual macro

Flaming x3 projectiles?

Near the Bukit Timah Summit ( 163 metre).  Like a little flaming bullet does it?

A touch of autumn near  the Dairy Farm Hut. I  looked up and shot it using manual macro from P7000.. A stone throw away you get the pretty orange-red leaves from rubber trees. The day was warm and the rubber seeds are cracking up.

Picked up this tiny flower on starting trail to Dairy Farm Loop. After the rain flowers bloomed.

My neighbour planting the green leafy vegetable in styrofoam box filled with soil. She told me it took 3 weeks before harvesting. 

Two green 'chai xin' vegetable plants were left to mature for collecting the seeds for propagation. Do you know where to get the seeds? Look for the seed pods.

water  caltrops - horned nuts - buffalo  nuts

At Bidadari, near Woodleigh MRT   attracted by the red sheath 

Bidadari - hot noon sun