A few days ago I was just outside the gate of Kaeng Krachan national park with some visiting bird watchers trying to get a good look at an Indochinese Bushlark. We checked all the regular spots, scanned all the wires for singing birds but nothing! Finally I heard one singing from the ground and we [...]

From 27th to 29th January I spent time at Khao Yai national park with a group of birders from UK. Fresh from a very successful northern leg of our trip expectations were high for some great birds at Khao Yai. When we arrived to absolutely awful weather conditions with unseasonal persistent rain and very poor [...]

The summit of Thailand’s highest mountain, Doi Inthanon, is always a lovely place, with its mossy, fern-covered trees and fantastic, colorful birds. On 24th and 25th January I made a couple of visits to the summit where it was really quite cold in the early morning and late afternoon.  What this meant was that as [...]

Last week I took a boat trip on the lake at Bueng Boraphet to see the large numbers of waterbirds that occur there. At the “Nok Nam Park” on the southern side of the lake Mr Phanom has been taking birders and photographers out for many years and he always knows what is to be [...]