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  Saturday 24th of February 2018 and my camera was ready for action. Well, the display is a little, well, I can use the camera. I had tea and oatmeal in my room and I went to take a taxi. And was I unlucky with the driver or what? It took time for him to find the place driving around. When I finally had got him to the right place I could not pay by card as his card reader was not working. Maybe something that he could have informed me about when we started the journey. Anyway, we reached Telok Blangah Hill Park and I started to walk towards the Terrace Garden. It was still dark, but there were many people in the park. A group doing the sushi or whatever they call the gymnastics and they were just in front of the stairs up to the Terrace Garden  Good morning gymnastics in Telok Blangah Hill Park
 Good morning gymnastics in Telok Blangah Hill Park
 The stairs to the Terrace Garden
 The stairs to the Terrace Garden
 The stairs to the Terrace Garden
 Warning
Well, I could hear a lot of birds but I could not see any birds. All the birds were sitting in the trees around the Terrace Garden. I had really been looking forward to coming here after my “sneak peek” yesterday. I worked my way up to the top covering the whole Terrace Garden on my way up, and not one single bird. I looked around and from the top I got a view of Singapore. But here was no birds so I started to walk down again. My plan is to walk around the Terrace Garden on the “Ring Road” Telok Blangah Green Road and by a circle around the Terrace Garden. To see the map in a full window click HERE
 Terrace Garden
 Terrace Garden
 Terrace Garden
 Terrace Garden
I walk down the stairs in the Terrace Garden and when I'm down on the Telok Blangah Green I turn left and I start walk counter clockwise around the Terrace Garden. I could hear many Black-naped Orioles in the trees. I'm halway up the hill when I spot two of the Black-naped Oriole. I try to get some pictures of the orioles when I spot a Racket-tailed Drongo. The Greater or Lesser Racket -tailed Drongo? I have no clue, but I will try to study them when I'm back home. Well, I found out that it was the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo. And I learned to distinguish the Greater from the Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus paradiseus
We can see the forked tail and the bigger twisted pendants at the end
   Long-tailed parakeets
I spotted two Long-tailed Parakeets siting in the top of a tree, but they were way too far away for any good pictures, so the Long-tailed parakeet will not end up in the list of observed birds. I reached the top and I see a big open field. I found out that it is the Mount Faber Service Reservoir just north and below the top of the Terrace Garden. I don't know what it is, but it was a well guarded place with “You will get shot” signs on the gate. All the latest high tech stuff, motion sensors and everything you see in the Secret agent movies. Anyway, there was a bird of prey soaring over the field when suddenly, a brown bird with a white head showed up outside the gate to Mount Faber Service Reservoir.  YIPPEE!!!!! A bird I have never seen before.
I was sneaking up on the birds when they were sitting outside the gate. They started alarms and stuff when they landed on the fence. Motion sensors sat of alarms but they didn't care so I continued, when suddenly the Guard, secret agent or whatever it was came out from the guard house screaming waving a broom at the birds. The birds took cover in the bushes so my pictures wasn't as good as I had been hoping for.  I'm not joking...
 ...they will shoot you!
  White-crested Laughingthrush
There is a bridge, or maybe a canopy walk, starting at the Mount Faber Service Reservoir and I started to get out on the bridge. But I was soon turning back again. I don't have time and it seems to be a huge area. I learned about the Telok Blangah Hill Park from my new friend that I met at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. He told me that it was islands with bridges between them, of course, I thought he was talking about “islands” But now I get it, it is three parks in the city and there are bridges between them and it is called the Southern Ridges. And of course, I want to explore the whole area so I will have to come back to Singapore again. And as you understand, the Southern Ridges requires more than a day or two to be explored. And this is of course something I look forward to.
Click HERE for a map over the Southern Ridges. Can come in handy if you decide to explore the  area. And again, visit National Parks Board (NParks) web page.
An impressive site, as good as the information you find about the parks in New Zealand. Well, maybe not, but I won't be surprised if they had visited the New Zealand web pages before making their web page. Maps and all the information you can ever need. It is good and well worth a visit and I give them 5 stars.  Bridge to Hort Park/ Kent Ridge Park
 Bridge to Hort Park/ Kent Ridge Park
 Bridge to Hort Park/ Kent Ridge Park
I took a taxi back to my hotel and I checked out at 12 o'clock and I was soon in a taxi on my way to Changi International and Thai Airways flight TG 414 to Bangkok. I was very happy that I had more exciting stuff to explore in Singapore. But waiting for the flight was at least to say boring. I spent the time in the lounge eating and drinking soda water. I was so bored so I downloaded the “LINE CAMERA” I killed time exploring the Line Camera. And with the updates of Line you can make your own GIFs, something I started with right away. I killed time on the flight figuring out the Line Camera and I pestered my friends with the result.  We might have children looking at the pictures
 On the way to Bangkok
 So, I get familiar with the Line Camera features
Strange, hundred years old and I was laughing so I pissed my pants when I tried out the new Line Camera. And 2 hours passed just by like nothing thanks to Line. well, honestly, i was kind of feed up with the Line Camera after a few minutes, but it was a few minutes with lots of laughs.   In the taxi back home
Arriving, like 2 hours late and I was going to eat dinner with my friend, but by the time we arrived to Bangkok the dinner time was behind me. Well, a taxi back home and I will go back to Suvarnabhumi tomorrow morning to fly to Chiang Mai for some bird watching. So if you would like to find out if we find any birds, just click HERE!
    
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