On Sunday 16th March 2008, my wife and I went to Chatuchak Market in Bangkok to do some shopping. I took the opportunity to take a look at the animal section and was appalled to see large numbers of birds, mammals and reptiles being sold illegally. Squirrels were particularly numerous as were reptiles, but it [...]
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Butterflies at Kaeng Krachan
March 24th, 2008 
Nick Kaeng Krachan national park is a great place for birdwatching with regular sightings of many species of woodpeckers, broadbills and other exciting birds. It also happens to be a superb place for seeing butterflies with huge clouds of them coming to wet patches to take salt in the middle of the day. If one stands [...]
Birding Tour of Thailand 17th January to 6th February 2008
March 5th, 2008 Nick The reason for not posting on this blog for over 2 months is that I have been busy on numerous birdwatching trips around Thailand. The longest of these trips was a three week tour, beginning in Bangkok and finishing in Chiang Mai, taking in a number of excellent birdwatching sites: Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale, Kaeng [...]
Orchid Photo Gallery
December 7th, 2007 Nick Due to the poor weather and being busy I have not managed to get out for a while – I’m beginning to feel a bit stuffy. I found a few moments to browse through some of my summer photos, reminding myself of better weather and some interesting plants. Like many other wildlife enthusiasts I have [...]
Flora of Swinemoor
November 16th, 2007 Nick I had an enquiry about the flora occurring on Swinemoor Common. Whilst I am more of a birdwatcher than a botanist I have taken note of a number of plants I have seen on the common and even photographed a few. Swinemoor is quite a large area of species rich, semi-improved grassland which hasn’t been [...]
Flowering Plants in October
October 17th, 2007 Nick A very sunny day was made surprisingly cold by a brisk north westerly wind, but I managed to find some sheltered, warm spots at the lake at Eske this morning. Although bird activity was not at its most spectacular today I noticed that there were still quite a few flowers around. I decided to see [...]
A Quick stop at Swinemoor
October 12th, 2007 Nick With the excitement of the good birds at Swinemoor yesterday, I took a quick look again this morning. Despite there being plenty of flooded patches for feeding waders the numbers of birds had decreased from yesterday. Numbers of Lapwing were down to about 60-70 along with about 20 Black-headed Gulls and at first I didn’t find [...]
