http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk Birding from around the world Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/an-afternoon-at-nui-hide-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/an-afternoon-at-nui-hide-thailand-birding/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:38:10 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=21945 Over the last few years I have visited a number of hides that are dotted around Kaeng Krachan National Park in Western Thailand, all of which are great to visit if you want to get close up views of birds. These hides always provide birders with superb views of lots of common forest birds but [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/an-afternoon-at-nui-hide-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/lung-sin-waterhole-besra-alert-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/lung-sin-waterhole-besra-alert-thailand-birding/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:57:14 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=21540 Sometimes things do not go quite according to plan. Hides around Kaeng Krachan national park provide birders with a lot of superb sightings of both common and scarce birds. Right now there are a number of hides where good birds can be seen but one of the most consistently good experiences can be had at [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/lung-sin-waterhole-besra-alert-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/garden-birding-at-baan-maka-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/garden-birding-at-baan-maka-thailand-birding/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:36:26 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=21386 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 [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/garden-birding-at-baan-maka-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/daap-hide-kaeng-krachan-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/daap-hide-kaeng-krachan-thailand-birding/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:26:22 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11353 The hides/waterholes close to Kaeng Krachan have become famous with birders in Thailand and beyond and quite rightly as they always seem to deliver good birds and it is a great experience to get so close to so many species at these locations. Ban Song Nok and Lung Sin Waterhole are the most frequently visited [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/daap-hide-kaeng-krachan-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/central-thailand-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/central-thailand-thailand-birding/#comments Fri, 10 Mar 2017 07:18:23 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11289 Having had a very enjoyable tour of the North of Thailand recently and I moved on to the central leg of the tour in mid February. Visiting Wat PraPhuttabaht Noi, Khao Yai, Pak Thale/Laem Pak Bia, Petchaburi Rice Fields and Kaeng Krachan National Park turned up a wide variety of exciting species from wetlands, forest and [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/central-thailand-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/petchaburi-birding-trip-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/petchaburi-birding-trip-thailand-birding/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:38:25 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=11208 Just yesterday I finished a nice trip which lasted for 8 days of birding in Petchaburi province with a group of birders from Wales. Although the first day of the trip was plagued by some really awful weather, and more was forecast, we had some really good birding in a number of sites which gave [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/petchaburi-birding-trip-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photography-at-ban-song-nok-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photography-at-ban-song-nok-thailand-birding/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2016 07:46:28 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=10764 Getting really close to birds and watching them go about their business is just about the best way to really appreciate them; even some of the apparently dull and very common birds can suddenly reveal themselves to be very interesting. There is probably no better place to be able to do this than some of [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photography-at-ban-song-nok-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-petchaburi-province-for-the-day-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-petchaburi-province-for-the-day-thailand-birding/#comments Mon, 23 May 2016 15:15:37 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=1425 On 20th May myself and Tom Wilson spent a day visiting various birding sites in Petchaburi province, leaving Bangkok at 5am and returning at around 6pm. It turned out to be a really good day with a large number of species and a wide variety of birds including Black-headed Woodpecker, Milky Stork, Indian Thick-knee, Slaty-breasted [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/birding-petchaburi-province-for-the-day-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/kaeng-krachan-nearby-sites-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/kaeng-krachan-nearby-sites-thailand-birding/#comments Fri, 06 May 2016 10:32:24 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=1387 I have just finished a week away birding at Kaeng Krachan National Park and some nearby sites where we found a lot of really superb birds even though conditions made birding really difficult most of the time. This visit coinciding with migration there were a good number of scarce migrant species including many species of [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/kaeng-krachan-nearby-sites-thailand-birding/feed/ 0 http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photography-at-huay-mae-taeng-thailand-birding/ http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photography-at-huay-mae-taeng-thailand-birding/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:18:50 +0000 Nick http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/?p=1260 Over the last month I have made a couple of visits to Huay Mae Taeng reservoir in Ratchaburi province, Thailand. The water level is extremely low, exposing large areas of grassland habitat which is used by lots of Paddyfield Pipits and Oriental Skylarks; in fact I am not sure there is a better place to [...]]]> http://dartfordwaffler.co.uk/photography-at-huay-mae-taeng-thailand-birding/feed/ 0