Whilst lazing around on the beach last week at Hat Chao Samran I decided to expand my skills as a naturalist and go shell collecting! The only issue constraining this self-improvement is my complete lack of any book to help me identify what I found. Quite an amazing variety of shells were easily found on [...]
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Dragonflies
June 10th, 2008 
Nick Sometimes it is nice to broaden ones appreciation of nature; it is all too easy to become too focused on birding in Thailand with so many species to find; so whilst counting waterbirds at Muang Boran Fishponds on Saturday I found some time to try some photos of the dragonflies and damselflies that are so [...]
Amazing Bird Video Clips
May 28th, 2008 Nick Some time ago I created a page called 10 Wonderful Bird Videos on Squidoo.com. For those that haven’t seen it, take a look; there are 10 video clips from various contributors which show amazing examples of bird behaviour. The ten clips include: 1 Birds of Paradise Crazy Courtship 2 Flock of Starlings Attacked by Peregrine [...]
Flowering Plants
May 27th, 2008 Nick On my visit to Muang Boran Fishponds on Saturday I took some time to photograph some of the flowering plants that I came across. Flowers are pretty easy to photograph as they don’t fly or run away and a quick snap on macro setting with just a compact digital camera gives some nice results. plants, [...]
Thailand Birding: 4 Day Trip: Kaeng Krachan, Tung Bang Jak, Khao Yai
May 15th, 2008 Nick I recently got home after a four day birdwatching trip to Kaeng Krachan, Tung Bang Jak and Khao Yai with four Japanese ladies led by Shoko Sakaeda. Quite frankly the forest birding was very slow, although what we lacked in quantity we made up for in quality species. At this time of the year virtually [...]
Thailand Birding: Phuttamonton Park
April 22nd, 2008 Nick On 17th April my wife and I were itching to get out of the house so we made our way to Phuttamonton Park even though it was midday. This is a large park on the Bangkok/Nakorn Pathom provincial border and whilst it is covered in trees, previous visits had found it to be rather sparsely [...]
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 [...]
