Large-tailed nightjar with chick, at the Singapore Botanic Gardens:
...and Sunda scops owlets (how cute are they?!)
There are plenty of parks and forests in Singapore, but for reasons best known to the owls, they chose a built-up neighbourhood, right next to a bus stop. In the photo below you can see the tree – and the hollow – where they nested.
Word spread far and wide through social media and news sites, and half of Singapore turned up to see them.
Not that I have any kind of moral high ground; I obviously went to see them too. But I didn't want to add to the crowds any more than I had to, so I just stayed for five minutes, took some photos and went home.
Both the nightjar chick and the owlets have fledged now. I hope they have long and happy lives!
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