Bredbury Blue

https://youtu.be/Xh7RMNMGPw0

Chick is still on it's precarious nest. Mum or dad still checking in the chick

Have a dove or doves (zebras I think) that love sitting on the window ledge of the window which is right behind my bed, so they’re a bit annoying waking me up with their cooing as soon as dawn breaks. Had a look and saw they’d just started building a nest on the window ledge so I removed it hoping that would make them go away. A week later their noise was back – found they’d built the nest again and had laid 2 eggs. One chick is now left. The nest is totally exposed to sun, wind and rain – it’s on the south elevation so gets the worst of the sun – so it’s hard to believe that they build a nest which is so exposed.

The various links you may see on websites to the great book no longer work, but the archive link below should get you to the full online copy The Fundamentals of the Thai Language (Fifth Edition) by Stuart Campbell and Chuan Shaweevongs https://web.archive.org/web/20180821202823/http://www.lyndonhill.com/FunThai/CONTENTS.html Sent from my Galaxy

No idea if this the right forum for this but I was just wondering what birds people got in their gardens, where are they (town/province), do they feed them and with what? Not an expert on the local birds but I'm in samut prakarn, area has lots of plaa salid fields, have a khlong next to my house with lots of trees and then fishfields. In the garden we get very brave collared dove types which aren't bothered by me, different types of mynah birds which are very jumpy, coucals (saw 2 together for the firts time last week), very noisy koels which I rarely see but are very vocal especially at night. In the fields theres a variety of storks. Had a kingfisher a few months back flying up and down the klong...that got me excited. I always chuck out bread for the birds. The mother in law says they're farlang nok as they don't eat rice she puts out (and no she doesn't mean falang kee nok). Anything unusual visiting your place? What do you feed them with?