Thursday, June 12, 2008
caring hands @ labrador nature reserve
caring hands @ labrador nature reserve from BeachBum on Vimeo.
Came across this group of students and their teacher at Labrador Nature Reserve who seemed to be having an outdoor biodiversity survey. Kudos to the teacher as he really seemed to know how to handle the session really well. He caught sight of a tiny fish(?) and gently cupped it in his hands to show his bunch of attentive students. And after he was done explaining about and showing the creature, he just as gently released it into the water.
This is very unlike other park users who fish in restricted locations, plunder the intertidal area for corals or algae covered rocks, intentionally throw their ciggarette butts and litter in all the wrong places and generally treat the nature reserve as a dump.
We need more people like the teacher and students in the clip! :) (and less of the other kind of park 'ab'users)
Found a link which explains what the teacher and students were doing! Look here
http://labradorpark.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/090608-at-labrador-park/
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Leaf Porter Crab @ Labrador Nature Reserve
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Ubin - more fiddler crabs!
Ubin - Fiddler crabs from BeachBum on Vimeo.
These fiddler crabs are found just beside the Ubin jetty. They are extremely sensitive and finicky and will run the moment they sense movement.
The males ones are those with the pretty useless big claw. The females are ... apparently attracted to the pretty useless big claw. Life is such. These crabs seem to be free with visiting the homes of other fiddler crabs. Some males will do so and also the females. Good neighbours? If you look closely, you can spot the even tinier sand bubbler crabs which look like sand. Great camouflage! These live amongst the fiddler crabs and do not seem at risk from the fiddler crabs even though they seem to process the same patch of sand for detritus. Each tide brings with it new organic material and so the sand is enriched constantly.
Some fiddler crabs seem to be territorial whilst looking for good feeding spots. They chase away other fiddlers and even their own females!
Link : see also http://wildfilms.blogspot.com/2008/05/fiddler-crabs.html
Ubin - fiddler crabs galore
Ubin - Fiddler crab run from BeachBum on Vimeo.
(Apologies for the rough frames at the start of the clip. I had suddenly begun to sink into the soft mud.) This one fiddler was some distance away from a suitably large hole and could not hide before I spotted him as an easy video target. Switching to macro mode, I came as close as I could to him. He froze until I waved a finger at him (finger visible at the left side) and then decided to make a run for it....and boy, could he run!
For more information on Fiddlers see :
http://www.wildsingapore.com/chekjawa/text/s321.htm
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Beautiful Cyrene 8 - brahminy kite
Beautiful Cyrene 8 - brahminy kite from BeachBum on Vimeo.
The clip shows a heron flying off as a brahminy kite flies in to land. The kite settles down and starts nibbling at something below. Presumably it has caught something and has it firmly gripped in it's claws. The backdrop is the petrochemical/tankstore plants on Jurong island and the foreground sees the seagrass meadow interspersed with shallow lagoons which are left behind at low tide on Cyrene.
Links :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahminy_Kite
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Haliastur_indus.htm
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)