Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a species that many visiting bird watchers ask me about. It is one of those colourful and strangely-shaped birds that capture people’s imagination and although it is fairly widespread in Thailand, found in the better quality freshwater wetlands, it is not a common species by any means and in order to see [...]
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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: Wetland & Open-country species near Bangkok
May 26th, 2008 nick Bangkok is surrounded by wetlands, indeed it is built upon them, and unfortunately the city is rapidly spreading out further, obliterating many wetland areas that were inhabited by wetland birds. The result is that many species that were formerly abundant are becoming ever scarcer. However, the fishponds close to Muang Boran in Samut Prakarn province [...]
Thailand Birding: Best to get out before 10 am!
May 21st, 2008 nick It seems to have become a habit of mine in Thailand to go birding at ridiculous times of the day recently. At this time of year it is light at 6am and by 9am it is already hot and sticky with bird activity in rapid decline – between these times is when most birds will be [...]
Thailand Birding: A few Winter Visitors are still present
May 15th, 2008 nick Today, whilst working on the computer, I was alerted to the sound of a chattering Barn Swallow outside. On looking up, I noticed a single swallow on the same TV mast that I photographed some swallows on a few weeks back: Late Winter Migrants. In fact Barn Swallows are pretty much always found in Bangkok [...]
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 [...]
