Field Checklist - Yishun Park

[Commander]

I would like to encourage BC members who are out in various places to record your sightings. Even without photos, many of you are now able to ID quite a good number of species within the Singapore checklist. If you have photographic records, all the better.

Those of you with smartphones may also want to consider downloading the free app, Runkeeper, which gives you a good GPS track of where you've been and also keep as a record after your visit to any particular sites.

I was out at Yishun Park a couple of weekends back, and here is my checklist of sighting for that location. Some of you may want to try out this park. It's one of the "feeder" parks for the new Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. A surprise that I spotted there was the Malay Staff Sergeant that came down to puddle on some fruits. A jogging couple scared it away though.


Checklist of Butterflies observed on 3 Jun 2012

1. Chocolate Pansy
2. Common Palmfly
3. Painted Jezebel
4. Dark Brand Bush Brown
5. Common Grass Yellow
6. Malay Staff Sergeant
7. Common Faun
8. Common Mormon
9. Autumn Leaf
10. Arhopala major major (Thanks, Seow!)
11. Baron
12. Great Eggfly
13. Striped Albatross
14. Peacock Pansy
15. Lime Butterfly
16. Lesser Grass Blue

Seow, can you help with the ID of the Arhopala? It's a heavily cropped shot of this very skittish fella.

[Commander]

Here's the Runkeeper record of the location and the route taken over this 2 hour survey.

[Blue Jay]

Mr Khew, what about making this a sticky? It can be used for referance when we would like to visit certain places to shoot a particular species. This sighting records subforum is also open to people who are not logged in, so like what Uncle Sunny says, we normally keep the locations to ourself. I think unloggedin users are unable to view stickies.

[Psyche]

Not a problem here, Khew.
It is Arhopala major major.
The spots in space 7 are all very small & the postdiscal spot in space 1b ,above the green mark is an L not a V.
The upperside indicates it is a female since the brown borders are wider than that of a male.

TL Seow

[Commander]

Mr Khew, what about making this a sticky? It can be used for referance when we would like to visit certain places to shoot a particular species. This sighting records subforum is also open to people who are not logged in, so like what Uncle Sunny says, we normally keep the locations to ourself. I think unloggedin users are unable to view stickies.

Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. For the more common species, I think there's no harm in just compiling checklists for the various areas. In any case, we don't give specific locations with GPS coordinates, so it's relatively safe.

As for users, I am beginning to prune off lurkers and people who don't contribute. The next category would be registered users who have not even logged on for a year or so. It would suggest that they are no longer interested to be here with BC forums.

Not a problem here, Khew.
It is Arhopala major major.
The spots in space 7 are all very small & the postdiscal spot in space 2 ,above the green mark is an L not a V.
The upperside indicates it is a female since the brown borders are wider than that of a male.

TL Seow

Much appreciated, Seow. Was surprised to see A. major in a relatively 'urban' park. There seems to be more than one of them in that location.

[Psyche]

Oops! It is a male A. major.
Just checked out the upperside of a female major & the brown borders are much broader.

TL Seow