Part 1 - Jurong Birdpark

Today was one of my most eventful day of the year! Went to Jurong Birdpark followed by Sentosa. As dear manage to get his company's Association of Singapore's Attraction (ASA) card, we got free entry to all of the attractions.

In the morning, bought breakfast to Law's (dear = Lawrence = Law) place. From there we set off to Jurong Birdpark. There were quite a lot of tourists, especially Indians!! And it was very hot, luckily i brought my cap along. The last time i went to the birdpark was like 20 years ago...Went i was 6!?!? Didn't really remember much about birdpark then..however today's trip was a bit disappointing. There is nothing much to see erm...ya except for birds lah, and i never know that there are so many different types of parrots. They actually have 110 species!

Eclectus Parrot

Blue-n-yellow-macaw

We walked through the whole birdpark in an anti-clockwise manner starting from Penguin Parade. Some of the birds that we saw includes:

The more exciting part of the trip is when we are at the Flamgino Lake. The Flamginos are just gorgeous! The whole pinky flock of them (hehe..pink is my favourite colours). Took some pics here:

Another more exciting part of the "excursion" is when we visited the Waterfall Aviary. The Waterfall Aviary is the world’s largest walk-in aviary with the highest man-made waterfall standing at over 30 metres. It is home for some 1,500 free-flying birds from Africa and South America. Set in a valley, the Aviary is landscaped with 10,000 exotic plants comprising 125 species of trees, bamboo, palms and ground-cover vegetation to simulate a tropical rain forest. Inside this Aviary, birds are not caged up and are able yo fly around.

We were just in time for the feeding of the birds.

The birds are waiting for the feeding to start.

The creepy crawlers which are used to feed the birds.

There are a few ways which you can feed the birds. You either:
1) hold that small cup and stretch out, hoping the birdies would take them, but thats not very efficient as the cup is very small and the birdies would have no where to stand, or

2) pour the worms onto your palm and stretch out (Yeeks!!!!!!!). This has proven to be a better way as the birdies are able to stand at the corner of your hand and feed on the worms, or

3) throw a few worms into the air and the birdies would soar down and take the worms with 100% accuarcy! Or the best and MOST efficient way to feed the birds, that is to....

4) pour the worms on the floor and they would just peck on them...lol...

So imagine when different people were using different methods in feeding the birds, its a bit of a chaos..The birds were everywhere, on the ground, on the trees, flying here and there trying to catch the worms that were being thrown into the air. Haha but its quite a rare sight.

Next we went to the man-made waterfall. While waiting for Law to set up his tripod to take a good photo of the waterfall, i was bored (as he takes a long time, adjusting this, adjusting that.. :P) so i started teasing this parrot that was standing on the edge of the wooden bridge. Its grey in colour with a red tail. It didn't give me any respond except looking at me with those big eyes..haha it must be thinking what the hell i am trying to do. Anyway, after a few mins of no respond, i gave up and walked back to Law's side and waited for him to finish with his tripod. Just then this birdie flies down and landed right beside me and looked at me!!! It likes me!! Hahaha.....but sorry boy, i don't have any food for you. Feeding time is over.

The curious parrot.

Hey stop looking at me and look at the camera!

After that, we went down to the bottom of the waterfall for a closer shot.

Our Mr Photographer...

That is our last stop at the birdpark. As the day is still young, we decided to go to Senotsa as the ASA card did offer free admission for certain attractions there. As this is a rathher long post. for my blog on sentosa, please read my next post. :)