This morning I spent a few hours at Sri Nakorn Kuen Khan park to see if I could find some interesting migrant birds – there is always the chance of something really rare at this time of year.  Despite arriving early the heat and humidity was very uncomfortable from the beginning (7am) and there were few migrant birds to see until around 8.30am, which seems to be normal. Spending around 4 hours birding the park it was obvious that the number of migrant birds passing through were significantly fewer than on my last visit on 9th April; again, this is to be expected as it is getting towards the end of migratory period.

Even with this lower level of activity I managed to find a good number of species including one very scarce species – Green-backed Flycatcher.

The first migrants I found were 3 Forest Wagtails which made themselves obvious, calling and fluttering around the same place all morning. These were shortly followed by a leucogenis Ashy Drongo, a Brown-streaked Flycatcher and a subadult Yellow-rumped Flycatcher.

A rest at the top of the birding tower brought a very welcome cooling breeze.

Soon after an Indian Cuckoo started calling which was easy to track down and this was followed by a subadult and a female Mugimaki Flycatcher foraging together and then 3 Ashy Minivets. After this followed a period of low activity which is something I also often experience, with another flurry of migrant activity to follow, and this was exactly what happened in finding a subadult male Green-backed Flycatcher (or was it a very bright female?) and a female Eyebrowed Thrush in the same tree.

I heard some Bee-eaters calling and found 2 Blue-throated Bee-eaters, an addition to my Sri Nakorn Kuen Khan list.

I walked a few laps of the park and hung around in regular hotspots but little else was happening until I decided to leave and ran into adult male and female Yellow-rumped Flycatchers. A nice way to end the visit.

I probably will not have time to visit the park again until migration has finished so this is probably the last of the migrants for me.