Dartford Waffler

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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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 ploughed […]

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 […]