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On 4/11/2560 at 1:06 PM, kgpr said:

Not sure what this eagle is it was going very low around the rice fields looking for food

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Eastern Marsh-Harrier, I believe. Anyone else? Could also be a Juv. Pied Harrier. Edit: Ooops. Just noticed Teflon Don beat me to it. I'm leaning Juv. Pied but it's been a long while since I had regular field experience with harriers. 

Ashy Drongo arrived on my soi in Bangsaen, Chonburi today. They are the dominant drongo on my soi, with black being more common back in the wooded areas and mangrove areas I visit locally.  

Asian Brown Shrike have arrrived in Chonburi today.

Are Common Myna's talkers? Hill Myna's certainly are, but not sure about common or white-vented. Though I am not a fan of birds as pets regardless. Birds are meant to fly. 

Interesting. I also saw a very large amount of Black-crowned Night Heron yesterday, almost all juveniles. Resident here so I see them throughout the year, but yesterday more than I had ever seen in one day. As for snipe, Pintail from Common for me was always made by call and the way they flushed.

What a difference a week can make. 7 days ago, no winter visitors in my Bangsaen patch. Yesterday evening, about 30 Pacific Golden Plovers, 50+ Lesser Sand Plover, some Red Shank, Green Shank, Long Toed Stint, and Chinese Pond Heron. Winter visitors all.

According to posts in Thai Bird Report (on facebook) Autumn migration is well underway with YR flycatchers already netted and ringed at Laem Phak Bia (Philip Round) and etc. So get your bins and cameras out and up those yard lists (or otherwise). 

My first winter visitors were a pair of Grey Wagtails in Kanchanaburi a couple weeks ago. They are among the earliest to arrive every year, apparently.

9 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Yes, thanks for the reply.

 

So, perhaps, the pelicans flew in from somewhere.

 

The breeding centre used to be open and anyone could wander around. That is no longer the case. Perhaps I will ask the rangers next time I am there why the change. I notice it has considerably expanded also.

 

 

I suspect there are things going on in there that shouldn't be. But that's just conjecture. Here are  couple pics of my SB Pelican from Surin in 2010. I spent over two years closely observing the area and it was the only Pelican sighting in that time. 

Oops. Pics won't upload. Having this problem a lot lately with this old laptop. Try later from another machine. 

13 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Question ;

 

Don't know if anyone can answer this.

 

There were 2 adult spot-billed pelicans at Bang Phra Reservoir, Chonburi yesterday. This is the first time I have seen this bird there or anywhere in Thailand for that matter. I know they have had for years and continue to have a breeding programme for wetland birds there and that is why you commonly see lesser adjutants and less commonly oriental darters there. Does anybody know if the pelicans are bred there or flew in from China (?). The birds were quite free soaring over the reservoir and sitting in a dead tree for an hour.

Not sure i have definitive answers to your question, but I go to Bang Phra every month or two and have often seen SB Pelican there. The problem with Bang Phra - as you point out -  is that it's hard to tell what has either come from the breeding center, possibly escaped from the nearby zoo, etc. and so on, or just arrived naturally. I have also seen Lesser Adjutant there and Darter and Black-headed Ibis. With the Pelicans and the Darters I think it's possible they arrived from elsewhere. I have had Darter in Bangsaen, Chonburi and Pelican flyovers. I also had both on a reservoir I lived on in Surin, way up in Isaan. The Dratres are apparently making a comeback largely due to good protection in the Tone La Sap in Cambodia. The Pelicans I am not so sure. But i am pretty sure I saw a flyover from my car on the way back from Kanchanaburi to Bangkok last week. 

On another note, I recently tried to enter the breeding center. They used to let you walk around. Not anymore. My wife and I were told to leave immediately and I was told to put my camera away. 

On 7/15/2017 at 11:18 AM, Speedo1968 said:

I live outside a small town in Isaan called Banphai, it is about 45km south of Khon Kaen.

There are areas of common land where buffalo graze as well as some small rice fields.

My house is in a very small compound that has many plants, fruit trees etc all around.

 

I have heard the woodpecker sound from other areas some distance way.

The bird where I live 'calls'? every morning around 7 - 8am then at various times of the day.

The hammering call can be short or long, normally long.

Yesterday I heard what I am sure was a response call from another bird some distance away.    Not the same hammering sound but three separate tone sounds and softer.     Lasted for about 10 minutes.

Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker would be the most common up in Isaan. I documented an area in Surin for a couple years and FVWP were the only woodpeckers I had there. I wrote a paper on the area I documented, and below is my entry for this species.

FULVOUS-BREASTED WOODPECKER Dendrocopos macei. (R) Gardens and open country with scattered trees. Common. Present throughout the year, with one to three sightings per month typical. Often in pairs.

1 hour ago, Curt1591 said:

Sunbird

 

Olive-backed male in breeding plumage, I reckon. Nice pic. 

Interesting. Where are your locations? I lived in the northeast for years and Hoopoe were common. I live in Chonburi now and Hoopoe are common. When I tell people who are not birders that I am a birder, their first question is usually something along the lines of, " So what is that bird that looks like a woodpecker with the crest on the head and..."

1 minute ago, thetefldon said:

Yes, have a pair in garden, here 350km north of Bangkok

 

Yep. When I fist saw a pair in my garden in Surin in April 2009, Isanbirder (who is sadly no longer with us) questioned my sight record. He lived an hour from me and had never seen them in his area. I got photos not long thereafter so that settled that. They weren't common in my garden there (as they are here in Chonburi) but common enough to the area that I generally sighted them once a month or so. 

Don't have books with me, but in 91, Lekagul/ Round had YV Bulbul for BKK and south only I think. When I first saw them in Surin some 8 or so years ago it was kind of news. But they are on the move. Now up in Laos as well. 

Little Egret were fairly common throughout the year during my time in Surin. 

My notes from that time read: 

LITTLE EGRET Egretta garzetta. (R/WV) Paddyfields, marshes, edges of reservoir. Present throughout the year and common with numbers peaking in the winter. By April, most are in breeding plumage, with numbers beginning to thin thereafter. Robson (2008) has Little Egret as a scarce to locally common resident in C, SE, and S Thailand only (winter visitor throughout). Regular Summer records from Huai Saneng might therefore support a range extension for this species, though no breeding was observed.

Depends on where you are and what kind of habitat you have available to you, but Watercock and Blue-winged Pita both come to mind as wet season breeding visitors as well. There are others. 

22 hours ago, overherebc said:

Somewhere close by in the trees there a bird that calls almost all day and into the early evening. The best description I can give for it's call is a loud shrill  tooWEEEoh. It is quite piercing at times.

Generally the couple of greater couls with their Woopwoopwoop set it off.

I cannot get any sight of at all.

Any ideas?

Asian Koel probably. See and hear here: