Having survived the worst of the Songkran water fighting I was joined, on the 15th April, by Mark Thomas, Jenny Atkins and Jason Goodwin for a day of general birding around Petburi province. After a little trouble finding it, I collected them from the Twin Towers Hotel near HuaLompong station at a little after 5am [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Waterbirds at Eske
November 9th, 2007 Nick I needed to get out for some fresh air and to stretch my legs today so I took a walk to Eske, despite the strong winds. Well, it was freezing with a brisk northerly wind making it uncomfortable to hold my binoculars. As a result the only birds I saw on my walk to the [...]
Another Swinemoor “Tick”
November 6th, 2007 Nick Another bright morning beckoned me out for a short walk on Swinemoor Common. The wind was brisk and quite cold though and made my eyes water a little – it certainly felt like winter is arriving. Not so many birds around today with about 40-50 Lapwings and just a couple of dozen gulls: Black-headed and [...]
A Sunny October Morning
October 29th, 2007 Nick A beautifully sunny morning saw me out on Swinemoor once again, although a little wind made things slightly chilly. As I walked past the hawthorn hedges a group of Redwings flew out along with 6 Fieldfares, 3 Chaffinches, 1 Blue Tit and a pair of Tree Sparrows. Out on the floods a group of aroun [...]
