Bangkok is a crowded, busy and noisy city but it is amazing how many birds still manage to eke out an existence within the city boundaries. The housing area I have been living in for the last few weeks is quite crowded, with few areas of open land, although it is close to the edge of the [...]

On the evening of the 22nd February I joined up with Masayuki and Yasue Shimada from Japan for a few days birdwatching in Thailand at Kaeng Krachan and Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale. Travelling in the evening we stopped in the town of Petburi for some food – finding an open air food court serving cheap and [...]

My wife and I got up early to take a drive along the road to Ban Kuntien. This is close to where I used to live and work and where I used to do a little birding from a bicycle. However, there has been a lot of development in the four years I have been [...]

On the 19th and 20th February 2008, Michael and Mandy Buckland joined me for a 2 day trip to take in the shorebirds at Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale and to sample the forest species of Kaeng Krachan. The trip was a remarkable success with the highlights at Laem Pak Bia including 7 Spoon-billed Sandpipers, 12 [...]

Having read about this site in Tony Ball’s blog and having made a brief and rainy visit a few days previous, I decided to make the most of the good weather on 3/2/08 to explore Huay Tueng Tao. This site is quite well-known amongst the locals of Chiang Mai and all the tuktuk drivers seem [...]

Mae Hia Agricultural College is a site I have visited in the past, but I decided to visit again on one of my spare days in Chiang Mai – the 2nd February 2008. From Chiang Mai town centre I took a tuktuk to the site which is a little tricky to describe in Thai, but [...]