Many local birders visit Soi 119, Bang Poo for good views of freshwater wetland birds. I had never visited this location before so after lunch at Bang Poo I went to take a brief look. Now, Soi 119 is not to be mistaken for Sukhumvit 119 near Bang Na . It is slightly confusing as the road [...]
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Thailand Birding: Lunch and Seabirds at Bang Poo
April 7th, 2008 
Nick Yesterday (Sunday 6th April) my wife and I intended to go to the Muang Boran open air museum but when we got there we found the price had been increased to 100 baht for Thais and 300 baht for foreigners. I have been there before and whilst it is pleasant I don’t think it is [...]
Thailand Birding: Bang Poo
April 3rd, 2008 Nick It was some time since I had been to Bang Poo but on Sunday afternoon (30/03/08) I spent the afternoon there. However, it was somewhat disappointing with thousands of people partying, feeding the gulls, picnicking and doing aerobics and not too many birds. In the past I used to get away from people by walking [...]
Thailand Birding: Khao Yai – there and back in a day.
April 2nd, 2008 Nick Usually I would spend more than a day at Khao Yai due to its distance from Bangkok and the number of birding opportunities it presents but Minoro Shimono, Satomi Kodama and Eriko Kodama were on a brief birdwatching trip to Thailand from Japan and had only a day to spare so, together, we headed off [...]
Thailand Birding: A day trip to Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale
March 31st, 2008 Nick On 23rd March I collected Andreas Egelund Christensen at 5am from his hotel near Silom Road: Room at Silom Hotel. We arrived at Laem Pak Bia at about 7am and made our first stop at the spot which has been used as a wintering site by a pair of Black-faced Spoonbills: Black-faced Spoonbill wintering site [...]
Cannibalistic Water Monitor Lizard
March 31st, 2008 Nick The King’s Project area at Laem Pak Bia is a really good birdwatching site in Thailand. However, any visit is certain to result in sightings of large water monitor lizards in and around the water, as well as birds. Many people ask me what such large lizards eat, and I have long suspected that they [...]
Thailand Birding: A Quest for Broadbills
March 26th, 2008 Nick On 19th March I joined Alex Vargas on a search for broadbills at Kaeng Krachan as he was after some photographs of those species for his collection: My Birds, Thailand by Alex Vargas. Before heading into Kaeng Krachan, however, we spent an afternoon at some paddie fields near Petchaburi before moving on to the King’s [...]
