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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 […]

Bang Pra is an excellent site for seeing a wide range of species, with woodland, grassland and wetland habitats it is possible to see a high number of excellent species here. Combined with an afternoon at wetlands near Bang Poo and some coastal birds at Bang Poo itself, an excellent day of birdwatching is possible; […]

Asian Golden Weaver is not at all common in Thailand and becoming increasingly rarer due to habitat destruction, although it can be found at a few sites I know; the most reliable being Muang Boran Fishponds where it is easy to get fairly close  to a nesting colony without disturbing the birds. Ashley Banwell had […]

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 […]

Having survived the worst of the Songkran water fighting I was joined, on the 15th April,  by Mark Thomas, Jenny Atkins and Jason Goodwin for a day of general birding around Petburi province. After a little trouble finding it, I collected them from the Twin Towers Hotel near HuaLompong station at a little after 5am […]

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 […]

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 19th March I joined Alex Vargas on a search for broadbills at Kaeng Krachan as he was after some photographs of those species for his collection:  My Birds, Thailand by Alex Vargas.
Before heading into Kaeng Krachan, however, we spent an afternoon at some paddie fields near Petchaburi before moving on to the King’s Project […]