I recently had the opportunity to visit Sri Lanka, a little over three hours from Bangkok by plane, and I booked a hotel close to the airport for my first night as I arrived at around 4pm and did not want to start travelling overland through the evening. Looking online there were lots of hotels [...]
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Back of an Airport Hotel Birds – Sri Lanka Birding
March 22nd, 2022 
Nick 
Posted in Bird Photography, Birdwatching in Sri Lanka, Nature 
Tags: bird watching, bird watching in Sri Lanka, birding sri lanka, birdwatching trips, sri lanka birding 
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Birding at Benjakitti Park | Thailand Birding
February 18th, 2022 Nick Most people who have visited Thailand will not be familiar with Benjakitti Park in Bangkok. Lumphini Park is well-known and well-visited by birders and over recent years Rot Fai Park and the adjacent Queen Sirikit Park have become favourites with birdwatchers in Bangkok. However, Benjakitti Park may well become a regular in the Bangkok birding [...]
Birding Phuttamonthon Park | Thailand Birding
January 23rd, 2022 Nick When I first came to Thailand one of the first birds I saw was Oriental Scops Owl. I was walking around in a seldom-visited part of Khao Yai national park and a park ranger called me over and pointed out a pair of these tiny owls roosting, just a few feet off of the ground. [...]
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A Morning Birding at Pathum Thani Rice Research Centre
January 6th, 2022 Nick The Central Plains of Thailand are full of rice fields, indeed Thailand is consistently the biggest exporter of rice in the world, but access to many of them can be difficult, requiring walking in hot weather. However, the rice research project in Pathum Thani, on the outskirts of Bangkok, is a perfect place to see [...]
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Ring-necked Parakeets Sunflower Feast | British Birding
December 14th, 2021 Nick One day in October 2021 I made a visit to a local woodland, Farningham Woods, but was distracted before I got there by large numbers of Ring-necked Parakeets feeding on sunflower heads along the entrance road to the woods. The sunflowers were grown as a wildlife boundary crop in a strip a few metres wide [...]
Posted in Bird Behaviour, Bird Photography, Birding in Kent, Birding in Southeast England, Birdwatching in UK, Nature Tags: bird ecology, bird watching, bird watching in britain, birds of kent, britain, british bird watching, british birding, british birds Comments Off
Shellness High Tide Birding | British Birding
October 25th, 2021 Nick The Roman philosopher Pliny claimed that a full moon caused moisture to form in the brain leading to madness and there may be something in this as I made the uncharacteristic decision to wake up at an unholy hour and embark on a day of dawn to dusk birding on the Isle of Sheppey on [...]
Brent Geese Arrive | British Birding
October 17th, 2021 Nick One of my personal key indicators of the onset of autumn is the mass arrival of Brent Geese to the North Kent coast. As early as September small numbers of these migratory geese arrive in dribs and drabs, seemingly disappearing as soon as they arrive and then suddenly large numbers of Brent Geese can be [...]
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