Yesterday (Sunday 6th April) my wife and I intended to go to the Muang Boran open air museum but when we got there we found the price had been increased to 100 baht for Thais and 300 baht for foreigners. I have been there before and whilst it is pleasant I don’t think it is very good value for money at that price, particularly as the staff were quite surly and unpleasant about it. So, instead, we headed to nearby Bang Poo for lunch at the seafood restaurant located at the end of the pier.

As we arrived the tide was out and I had a brief look at the birds. A few Javan Pond Herons, some Black-winged Stilts, a few Kentish Plovers, a couple of thousand Brown-headed Gulls and some egrets were all I spotted before we had our lunch.

Lunch was very good – crab fried rice, fried fish in garlic, shrimps in chilli sauce and crab’s legs washed down with some beer came to around 700 baht (just over £11) and by the time we had finished it the tide had come in.

Outside it was rainign a bit but not enough to stop me watching the gulls and terns. The Brown-headed Gulls are always easy to observe here as they wheel around feeding from people’s hands but yesterday I got great views of both Whiskered and White-winged Terns as they fished close to the pier. I spent some time taking some photos and got some reasonable shots with just a compact camera – the opportunities for proper photographers here are very good!

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