To say that gull watching is an acquired taste would be to ignore the fact that many birders never do acquire the taste. However, on two consecutive tours to South Korea many of those accompanying me have started out as skeptics but have quickly found watching large numbers of gulls and a wide variety of [...]
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Becoming a Gull-Watcher in Winter | South Korea Birding
January 23rd, 2019 
Nick 
Posted in Bird Behaviour, Birdwatching in South Korea, Gulls, Nature 
Tags: bird watching, bird watching in Korea, birding Korea, gulls, thailand birdwatching trips 
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Winter Wildfowl | South Korea Birding
January 18th, 2019 Nick Having recently returned from leading my third winter birding tour to South Korea I have some time to reflect on different aspects of this excellent trip. While the big draw is to see large numbers of Red-crowned, Hooded & White-naped Cranes, Steller’s Sea Eagle, Relict Gull, Oriental Stork and many other rare and range-restricted East [...]
Posted in Birdwatching in South Korea, Birdwatching Trips, Nature Tags: bird watching, bird watching in Korea, birding Korea, south korea bird watching, south korea birding trip, south korea winter birding Comments Off
Birding Highlights of 2018
January 3rd, 2019 Nick Happy New Year! I am looking forward to what I have planned ahead in 2019 with a birding trip starting in South Korea tomorrow but over the last few days I have also been thinking about some of my birding highlights in 2018. As usual I did a lot of birding in Thailand, which always [...]
Posted in Birdwatching in Austria, Birdwatching in China, Birdwatching in Malaysia, Birdwatching in Thailand, Birdwatching in UK, Nature Tags: bird watching Comments Off
Doi Lang East Photography Day Trip – Thailand Birding
December 26th, 2018 Nick Although I am in Northern Thailand as part of a non-birding trip, I wanted to make time to look for a few rare species on the east side of Doi Lang along with it being a great place to get to grips with a new camera, blessed as it is with several species that are [...]
Posted in Birdwatching in Thailand, Nature, Northern Thailand Tags: bird watching, bird watching in thailand, thai birds, thailand, thailand bird watching, thailand birding, thailand birds Comments Off
Birding from Shanghai – China Birding
December 13th, 2018 Nick I recently returned from leading an enjoyable and bird-filled tour to Southeast China where we were able to observe many of Asia’s rarest migratory waterbirds. Our trip consisted of three distinct sections, the first of which took us to coastal wetlands and farmland to the north and Southeast of our starting point, Shanghai, where we [...]
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Garden Birding at Baan Maka – Thailand Birding
October 29th, 2018 Nick Baan Maka Nature Lodge is always a nice place to stay near Kaeng Krachan national park in western Thailand and I was lucky enough to have Ian and Games as my host for a night while I checked out a few birding spots around Petchaburi province over the last few days. Things are very wet [...]
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Autumn Colours at Knole Park – British Birding
October 19th, 2018 Nick With a few hours to spare I took a short drive to Knole Park in Sevenoals, Kent, to see if I could find any Redwings which have started to arrive from Scandinavia. It was great that I saw my first one very shortly after I arrived but it took some time before I got a [...]
Posted in Birdwatching in UK, Nature, Other Wildlife Tags: bird watching, bird watching in britain, britain, british bird watching, british birding, british birds, mammals, other wildlife Comments Off
