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SHIT SHIT for long as you could see

Tern using garbage as a resting platform

Spent the whole day in Gulf of Thailand and it was a chocking experience. Garbage and garbage. We are playing on our mobile phones discussing the latest YouTube movie while we're killing ourselves

Alarm was set to go off at 4 thirty this morning and I was rewarded with 2 Collared Kingfishers

Now it is time for my fruit salad after long time trying to identify this bird. I thought from the beginning that it was a Scaly breasted Munia. Maybe a juvenile so I put this down as a juvenile Scaly breasted Munia

There was a group of them (all juvenile) enjoying the morning eating in the grass

An adventure to go birding

And the crows, very frustrating. I got interested when I discovered how many different crows there are, but frustrating to identify them as they look the same. Well, except for the normal grey and black crow: House crow, that one is easy enough. Again, risking to make a tit out of myself I put this down as a Slender- billed crow. Forehead is flat compared with the Large-billed crow yesterday with the steep forehead

I imagine this tail to be square ended that the crow yesterday

Slender-billed crow? Other opinions are appreciated

Suan Rot Fai early this morning 

Cattle Egret looking for breakfast

Here we have 2 give aways that it is not a Little Egret

1) Walking around on pastures

2) Yellow bill

I never managed to get a picture of the feet. But you have to take my word for it, the feet are black

Suan Rot Fai just 2 hours ago. I walk around and I hear a bird. I think that this sounds like a Kingfisher.

So I have a look around and there is a Black Capped Kingfisher. I must admit that I was happy to recognize the sound as am just a happy amateur birder

Euroasian Tree sparrow

Might be my imagination, bit don't she/ he look a wee bit sullen? OK, 500 kg lard looking at you and you can of course have a better time

Built to catch fish

I'm on my way to school and the Little Egret is busy catching dinner

And here was have 2 give aways so I'm sure it is a Little Egret and not a Cattle Egret

1) Yellow feet

2) The bird is in water fishing

Crows, pretty boring. But they are actually (my very own opinion that I won't try to push on to anyone else) quite beautiful. A crow, simple, but when I came home I discovered that there are plenty crows and they are all looking the same in my book A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand and South East Asia by Craig Robson

But I'm going to put this down as a Large Billed Crow risking to make a tit out of my self

Been to AV camera to buy the GoodsGood GD 140 dry cabinet. Will be delivered tomorrow and I cant wait to get my gear in to the dry cabinet. Anyway, I walked to school and I passed through Lumpini park. Where I spotted a shrike.

Thanks to Thaivisa and the birds in my garden folder I have learned a little about Shrikes. And I really wished we only had one bird folder here on Thaivisa.

Anyway, thanks to Thaivisa I knew it was a Shrike and I put it down as a Brown Shrike

And our Brown Shrike have a friend

Passed this place on one of my walks around Bangkok, instantly felt in love with the place

 I have put down this bird as a pheasant-tailed jacana. Is that right?

I'm almost sure it is a swallow. But anyone know what kind of swallow it is?

11 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

 

 

So when u will arrive in Udon Thani, let me know ;

I shall go to the airport to pick u with my pickup .

 

Driving all sort of vehicles from a little car to a big or huge truck , up to 120 tons, was my job nearly all my life and that everywhere in Europe ;

so, if u can drive without a problem in Greece or in Ukrainia; it's very easy to drive here in Thailand

Cheers

My friend bought a new motorcycle. We went to the shop in his car and I had two choices:

1) Drive his new motorcycle back to is house

2) Drive his car back to his house

I don't know why, but I felt safer driving the car. But believe me, when I parked the car at his house I felt very relieved.

I have been on the roads in Greece, luckily enough in the back of a taxi. Never in Ukraine, but in East Germany, in the back of a STASI styled police car.

I was in a bar drinking orange juice, early afternoon. Orange juice was only available if you drank it with alcohol. I guess the didn't had much orange juice in the old East Germany. Anyway, the juice tasted "more" and I don't know what happened. Suddenly I saw 4 police cars outside the window and I though that there must be a serious " enemy" of the state in the area. Well, he was better of having some attitude adjustment. Turned out the had come for me. 20 Police men stormed the bar and I was soon in a Police arcade (Lights and sirens on) on my way to prison for attitude adjustment. My road experience form former East Europe 

By the way, I have lived in Thailand for,well, for a while. 2 things I never get used to:

1) The driving on the left hand side. Farting along on the left hand side is easy enough, but turning at the intersection and I always end up on the right hand side. And that's even though I have now spent more time with left hand traffic than driving on the right side of the road

2) And strange, I always forget the weather. I look out my window, gloom and grey for as long as I can see. The AC is on full blast and I think that it must be a cold day out doors. And surprise, walking in to the wall of heat and humidity.

Udon Thani, I stay at the hotel in the Central shopping Mall and last time they had a car and driver for rent. Very convenient.

Still in Malaysia and I hope to be in Singapore in 2 or 3 days and from there straight back home to "FUNKY TOWN"

I will send you an e-mail when I have more news. By the time we get some bird pictures here. Well, I can put some pictures from my last trip to Udon Thani.

Great Egret (Great white heron) and this trip was the trip making me interested in birds in Thailand. So when I came back home I started the birding in Bangkok and beyond.

Suan Rot Fai

Almost sure it is an Asian Brown Flycatcher

On the highway back to Bangkok after a full day of birdwatching

If this was where I come from you would have wished for the police to have pulled you over. Or people would have beaten the living daylight out of you for driving around like this with a child on the highway 

Anyway, is it only me that can watch all the web pages in colour just by putting higher security setting on your web browser to stop scripts?

What the …

Sorry to destroy your folder or whatever it is called guys. I don’t know if this qualify as “RURAL LANDSCAPE”

I love rice paddies and I have seen some of the most beautiful scenery (if it wasn’t for all the garbage) cruising along the rice paddies. But when I passed this, well, I don’t know what to call the equipage, but I just had to stop to get a picture.