Anantara Bird List tops 130
...way back in August we were lucky enough to be visited by Philip Round the man who, literally as it happens, wrote the book on Thai birds. He was accompanied by Mick Davies and Khun Dowroong Danlammajak and in two short days they did for my Babbler list what Vivien Goon of the Malaysian society for Natural History did for my Warblers!
That it has taken two months for the list to be updated is my fault, but I have finally managed to get around to it and the full listing is on the web, available from the www.helpingelephants.org website.
Of course, the professional birders saw more birds than are in red, they managed to verify some of my sightings too, which is nice given my lack of skill behind the binoculars.
The only real excitement was generated by a rather plain White Wagtail of the alboides race which appeared to be breeding some kilometers South of it's normal range (usually in China). The winter visitor wagtails I referred to in an earlier blog being of the leucopsis race.
Thanks to Phil for explaining this to me!
Another gratuitous photo, this time of the recent floods that hit our elephant grazing land (with no casualties save for some displaced birds), the straw construction is the roof of the Four Seasons breakfast sala giving those of you who have breakfasted there during the dry season, on the cliff 10 feet above the river, some idea of how much water was coming out of Burma at the time.
All dry now though.
That it has taken two months for the list to be updated is my fault, but I have finally managed to get around to it and the full listing is on the web, available from the www.helpingelephants.org website.
Of course, the professional birders saw more birds than are in red, they managed to verify some of my sightings too, which is nice given my lack of skill behind the binoculars.
The only real excitement was generated by a rather plain White Wagtail of the alboides race which appeared to be breeding some kilometers South of it's normal range (usually in China). The winter visitor wagtails I referred to in an earlier blog being of the leucopsis race.
Thanks to Phil for explaining this to me!
Another gratuitous photo, this time of the recent floods that hit our elephant grazing land (with no casualties save for some displaced birds), the straw construction is the roof of the Four Seasons breakfast sala giving those of you who have breakfasted there during the dry season, on the cliff 10 feet above the river, some idea of how much water was coming out of Burma at the time.
All dry now though.
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