This small sliver of land used to be a landfill, from construction materials to military items, basically all forms that can’t or not economically viable to recycled goes there. During my military days, I had on some occasion, headed down here to be a neutral witness of the dumping of condemned military items. Not munitions or decommissioned weapons but more mundane things like old boots, military fatigues and such.
Now, its an oasis left to its own to settle. Plenty of local fauna and flora flourishes here with water species close to the canal to others in the forested areas. The area is only accessible by vehicle which you’ll have to park along to road and then do a trek in from there. Unsealed walking paths makes it easy to walk on the fringes of this area. Do wear long sleeves and pants as well as a hat, it gets hot and there’s mosquitoes to content with.
The canal that runs through this place cuts this area into half. I only managed to walk one part of this place and here are a couple of birds I’ve unable to identify so I’ll have to make a trip back to do more observations.
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- Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
- Black-throated Sunbird (Aethopyga saturata)
- Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis)
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum)
- Oriental Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis)
- Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata)
- White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
- Pied Triller (Lalage nigra)
- Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach)
- Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)
- Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
- White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)
- Little Heron (Butorides Striata)
- Collared Kingfisher (Todirhamphus chloris)
- Ruddy Kingfisher (Halcyon Coromanda)
- Brahminy Kite (aliastur indus)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
- Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier)
