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On 09/01/2013 at 1:13 PM, samuijimmy said:

One lonely Hawk, or is it an Eagle??? Thali Noi

Hello SummaiJimmy

Yes, I'm reviewing all the bird pictures as there isn't much else to do on this thread, until you posted your pictures a few moments ago. Nice!

Anyway, I was on page 1 and I found your picture

Can this be the Brahminy Kite. I have seen a few of them around. But this one is a tad bit too far away. The below pictures of the Brahminy Kite was taken at the Mahachai Mangroves some 90 minutes with car outside Bangkok.

And they have a special sound that is not to hard to copy, at least I thought I was under the impression that I sounded like a  Brahminy Kite

But, I'm not sure what the  Brahminy Kite thought. I was 4 meters from her/ him making my "EXCELLENT"  Brahminy Kite sound and I thought that we had a real conversation going for us. But when I look at the pictures it looks more like she/ he looks at me wondering who the <deleted> is.

I don't know, at least I have a hart time saying of we had some kind of communication or if she/ he was just calling for help

Please call 911! The thread is dying on us!  I will do some basic CPR meanwhile

A Little Egret in Sri Nakorn Kuen Kan park. Just cross the river on the 3 Baht ferry from Klong Toey

A Little Egret as we can see on the yellow feet. The Cattle Egret looks the same but have black legs and feet. I use another trick when I cannot see the feet to identify the bird. If the Egret is at the water it is a Little Egret. If I see the Egret on pastures it is a Cattle Egret 

Here are two more with a wee bit of blue in the plumage

Ron,

do you think Samuijimmy gets embarrassed if we put some blue birds here. He loves the blue birds but they are not from Thailand, these are beautiful birds I took the last few days here in Australia

Hello Ron

Yes, first time I saw the Peewee I thought it was a starling or myna as they look a little like the oriental pied starling but different colour. I saw them again (of course, they are all over the place) and one lady out bird watching told me it was a Magpie-lark

I spotted them again and now one of the bird watching girls (from Melbourne) told me it was a Peewee

And as in your pictures, they look different, even in the same group. Some with vertical stripes and some with horizontal, with a black stripe over the eyes like a bank robber

So I thought it was different birds with different names until I learned about the different names depending from where you come from in Australia

Hello Ron

Malaysian Pied Fantail (Pied fantail) in Thailand

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They look very alike, Willie have the grey stripes under the bill and the Thai have the stripes on top of the head. And the Thai fantail have a black band on the chest

And as you say, the Malaysian Pied Fantail is a little more brownish

Willie Wagtail, maybe the Australian Fantail looks a wee bit more sullen

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296-3.gifBut the Australian fantail takes the prize with the name

I really like the Noongar Australian Aboriginal name for the Willie Wagtail (a Flycatcher not really a wagtail) which is "Chitty Chitty" - exactly the sound they make.

Mousehound, I like the Australian names as well, and it seems like they have a liking for Wi or We like willy willy. And the Peewee drove me crazy. Took me along time before I understood that it was the same bird they were talking about as they name it different from where you are from in Australia

And I can see that the Indian Rollers still looks good on Samui. Of course Samuijimmy, after a long polishing of your feathers you will attract someone

I don't know, but I think the different colours can have something to do with age/ time of the year as well

Grey Fantail, looks a lot like the Thai fantail

Hello Ron

Malaysian Pied Fantail (Pied fantail) in Thailand

They look very alike, Willie have the grey stripes under the bill and the Thai have the stripes on top of the head. And the Thai fantail have a black band on the chest

And as you say, the Malaysian Pied Fantail is a little more brownish

Willie Wagtail, maybe the Australian Fantail looks a wee bit more sullen

But the Australian fantail takes the prize with the name

Philchumpon

Just beautiful. Having breakfast enjoying a bird and hopefully some twitter. Just amazing and something we learn to appreciate when we're getting older. Just enjoying your good morning tea and watching the bird pottering about, QUALITY TIME!!!

Yes, need stuff to make a nest and he is in a hurry to find a female before he goes bald like I have seen quite a few of them by now in Bangkok

I have sen a few new birds, but as I'm in Australia I cannot post the pictures here. Yes, I have seen a NOT BALD Common Myna, but also quite a few other birds that we don't have in Thailand. Among them a bird with what I would like to say atypical Australian name Willie Wagtail

Yesterday I was flying, no swimming with a beautiful turtle.

He swam in to something looking like a tunnel and I swam over to the other side. But there was no exit and I lost him

With a wee bit of imagination it looks like a bird!

Plahgat

Maybe you can help me out here. I have put this down as a Little Heron. But he/she have green legs. The Little Heron you posed and the other Little Heron I posted have orange legs. This bird was taken the same day as the Little Heron on the previous page. Is this a Little Heron with the green legs. And this one don't have the feathers on the top part of the legs like your and my previous pictures

Thanks

Here is a Little Heron from the same day

And by the way, I was up at 5 this morning just to discover that my battery was flat when I reached my birding place at 7. Back home and I gave up the bird watching for today

^Have you been to Safari Park in Safari World (Minburi, Bangkok)? You can get your car right up to 100s of storks and others for great picture opportunities.

Thank you

I cannot speak for the other members posting pictures here. But I have an (stupid?) idea that I want to see the animals in their freedom. There are safari worlds that might be worth visiting. But I have heard a lot on how animals are treated here during my years in Thailand so I keep well clear

They should close the zoos and open more national parks as the habitats disappears in an alarming rate all over the world.

Asian Openbill, I walked all the way up to her. I had expected the stork to take off much earlier and I was about a meter away, too close for any good picture when the stork took off

Pied fantail from this morning

Samuijimmy

I went out of bed 5 o'clock this morning and I met our friend the Yellow vented Bulbul

Pied Myna (Asian pied starling) in Bangkok

I was sneaking around the bushes, must have been like an elephant, trying to get close to the Little Egrets. Imagine the pictures I could have taken if I had been in one of the rented paddle boats. Well, as I'm 4 times bigger than the boat I can also imagine the Thai people catching sight of this "What the duck is that?"

But to be on the water taking pictures would have been perfect looking straight in on their nests.

I will take one of those "Air Stewardess diets" over night and see if I can rent a boat tomorrow

Little Egret Teenagers in Bangkok. They are not old and most of them could not yet fly

A Little Heron in Bangkok