Balestier and Birds

On the 17th, my school visited the Jurong Bird Park for its annual year-end programme outing.

I had lost my voice during the superhero graduation and now I find myself having to trek around the park with a slight fever and aching joints. Luckily the place is much smaller than I remember. Either its changed with the recent renovations or more likely, places seem much bigger when you're ten years old.

I can't really show you many pictures, because we need permissions to display any pictures of our some of our kids faces in public.

However here's a pic of our team's mascot. The spotted-crowned pigeon decided to join us on our trek.



Apparently I look like some birdkeeper because birds kept flying to greet me, probably thinking it was feeding time or something. This one swooped down on me. By the time I got my camera out though, it had realized its mistake and was looking rather disappointed and giving me an accusing eye.



My favourite part was the world's largest aviary. Very nice though I miss the world's largest waterfall. It was the world's largest disappointment to find my childhood memory was no more.







Mind you, I forgot my camera so all the pictures are from my SE750i. Its brilliant when outdoors in sunlight, but disappointing in low light conditions. So all my penguin pictures didn't turn out right. This was the best.



Other pictures I meant to take are of the surprisingly huge owls and eagles. One of the eagles looked big enough to carry off one of the smaller kids. I'm not kidding about their size! I'll try get some additional pictures of the birdshow and what not. For now you just have to make do with these I guess.