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 […]
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 Falcon
3 Albatross Flying […]
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.
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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 […]
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 […]
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 through […]
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 […]
At this time of year birders in Thailand are witnessing the end of the spring migration and it is interesting to note the last dates that many of the commoner species are seen. Today, as I was driving to the market, I saw 6 Barn Swallows swooping around a wood yard in the suburbs of Pra […]
Recently I seem to be making a habit of going birdwatching in Thailand at the wrong time of day, and yesterday I decided to go to Suan Luang for the last few hours of light as I was bored with lurking around the house. Although Suan Luang can be quite a nice birding spot in […]
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