Showing posts with label Alexandra Hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexandra Hospital. Show all posts

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Butterfly Park @ Alexandra Hospital

It was slightly more than a year when I last visited this little garden over at Alexandra Hospital.
First or first pair of butterfly that I saw was this mating probably Common Mormon that on a lime tree. Or could that be lime butterfly?
A beautiful Blue Glassy tiger butterfly.
A very bright yellow butterfly - Common Grass Yellow
A Chocolate Pansy
This is a Leopard butterfly. Thanks Commander for the id.
I have no idea this very hairy caterpillar will change to what butterfly or why it decided to stay at the open area? No fear of any predator?
However, this lime Caterpillar rather stay camouflage with their colour similar to the branch they stayed. When provoke, they will try to deter their predator with this very fierce looking face. Does it looks like a snake with their red tongue extended?Other than butterfly, this garden also house to many other insects and not forgetting spiders. Such as the jumping spider with the face of a 'Mask Rider'.A rather rare spider to be found in the urban area - a red Tent Spider (Cyrtophora unicolor). Red tent spider are usually found within mangrove vegetation.Again, I was puzzled by this spider with a very distinctive web.Another beautiful Horned spider probably a Gasteracantha kuhliThe palm tree is flowering and attracted lots of bees.In the nature, nothing is go to waste, even poo! The dung beetle was first to arrived...follow by fly...Several different dragonfly can also be found in this small garden.This beetle was still lazying under the sunlight.Cicadas call can be heard within the garden too. I'm not sure why this cicada decided to rest at artificial tree trunk (a lamp pole). Perhaps trying to prove that he got no fever??As with any outdoor activities, if you are prone to mosquitoes bite... remember to wear long sleeve or apply insect repellent. I'm sure you don't want the mozzie army to spoilt your activities.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Butterfly Watching @ Alexandra Hospital

Is Sunday again.... have not been going to Alexandra Hospital for a while. The last time I went was about a year ago for a workshop although I passby AH almost everyday on the way to my work place.

I arrived about 8am and there are aleady about 15 people ready with their camera and all kind of gadgets chasing butterfly. Although the park is under a major upgrading, it did not stop the butterflies from coming here to breed and embrace the park.
This is a beautiful Glassy Tiger. However, I'm not sure if this is a Blue Glassy or Dark Glassy.
Glassy Tiger usually seen on a slow graceful and unhurried flight, I can't help but to take more shots.
Ha ha...again, I can't tell which is 3 rings or which is 5 rings. I'm totally new about butterflies... 'paiseh'
This black butterfly (Blue Helen) looks like a 'wau' a kind of kite in Malaysia. Understand that this is a migrant species. Mmmm.... no wonder the shape really looks like a wau.
Could this be a Malayan Bush Brown?
Another 2 that I don't know their id.....
Been waited for hours.... this butterfly just don't stay still :-( I end up took this picture while she is flying. Is either a Common Rose or a Great Helen.
Managed to capture this beautiful butterfly that normally stay around the tree canopy.... a Painted Jezebel.
Well, you will not just lok at the butterfly... this skink wanted to have some exposures too.
This grasshopper is about 9cm in length! Wow...
Terrapin swimming gracefully in this pond..
This poster list down all the birds that been sighted here in the hospital's compound.
Well, this probably is one of the only hospital in Singapore that host so many different kind of animals.