Brian F. Allen

Singapore

A Painted Stork flies by while I'm crossing the bridge back over the Sugei Buloh Besar
Painted Stork on the hunt
A Pink-Necked Green Pigeon nesting
Dead tree
Pied Imperial Pigeon
Pied Imperial Pigeon
Pied Imperial Pigeon
Lineated Barbet
Construction project in Marina Bay, seen from the Helix Bridge
Marina Bay Sands from the Gardens
Gardens by the Bay
Gardens by the Bay
Photo from Dailyish
Over the five or so hours I spent at the reserve I saw less than a dozen people. One of them was this photographer. She
I took shelter from the rain storm in one of the blinds that are setup overlooking the inlet. Apparently, so did this ra
Plantain squirrel scrambling in the trees
View of the island of Singapore
A snail exploring a grate in the side walk near City Hall
Photo from 2025 Singapore
Monkey tracks frozen in a concrete sidewalk just outside the Bukit Timah Reserve
Sign for dedicated moutain biking trails in the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
God rays above a trail in Bukit Timah Reserve
Fungi on the side of the trail
Trails in Bukit Timah often use or allow trees and roots in their midst
Runoff stream in Bukit Timah
Thick tangle of vines
Tangle of vines from below
Giant wood spirders (Nephila pilipes)
Anoither giant wood spider
A nestled pair
Plantain squirrel feeding on berries in Bukit Timah Reserve
Photo from 2025 Singapore
Plantain squirrel
Plantain squirrel feeding on a berry
Stump with bright white ring of fungi
Backlit giant wood spider
Vine spiral in the trees
Another giant wood spider
Photo from 2025 Singapore
Trail in the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Macaque monkey sitting
Macaque monkey strolling on a branch
Signs about feeding the wildlife were everywhere. And they seemed to work-- the Macaque monkeys either ignore or avoided me the whole day.
Hindhede Quarry Lake
Snail on the underside of leaf
Umbrella in the shade
Across the Johor Strait to Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Endless plastic hides in the marsh on the Johor Strait
Observation blinds hide the hiker from the birds, and the sun
Singing
A Great Egret watches the inlet
A discarded flipflop floats in the inlet
Photo from 2025 Singapore
The tiny males (right, with red bodies) are dwarfed by the female Giant Wood Spider (left)
Side view of the Giant Wood Spider
A beautifully colored male Copper-Throated Sunbird struts his stuff
The Copper-Throated Sunbird male is attentive as the female flies in
The rather drab Copper-Throated Sunbird female keeps an eye on her (potential) mate from below
Photo from 2025 Singapore
Photo from 2025 Singapore
Photo from 2025 Singapore
Photo from 2025 Singapore
Abandoned walkway over the mud flat
Great Egret
Photo from 2025 Singapore
A tree bud that looks strangely like a bird
A Great Egret fishing in the inlet
A Painted Stork beyond the mangrove trees
Tangled roots of a Mangrove tree
A Plantain Squirrel leaps through the Mangrove tree roots and past a plastic bag that's wrapped around the tree roots
Plaintain Squirrel eating seed
Plantain Squirrel knaws through a seed, casting bits aronud. Messy eater.
A crocodile swims past
This Estuarine Crocodile was easily fifteen feet long
Painted Stork
I slowly made my way back into the blind, under the lizard's constant attention
Back inside the blind, exactly where I had been sitting for twenty minutes waiting for the rain to stop, now looking dir
Thirty feet away from the blind, I distriburbed another Monitor Lizard; this one smelling me.
But it's not interested in me.
A Painted Stork flies by while I'm crossing the bridge back over the Sugei Buloh Besar
A Painted Stork flies by while I'm crossing the bridge back over the Sugei Buloh Besar
Just a half mile swim away is Malaysia
Gardens by the Bay
Gardens by the Bay
Underneath the Dragonfly Bridge