For The Birds !

[samuijimmy]

No me neither, chances of a bomb going off are likely as being hit by lightening... that's the approach I took, when coming back from my round trip through Malaysia a couple of years ago. ... At some of the road blocks they would stop you just to chat and help from boredom of sitting there all day

Don't think we've seen much of Angiuds pics from his trip down that way..(more west) . a while back.... hmmm?

Great link there, Hanno!

Driving from Khao Lak to Ranong, there were several road blocks to pass through.... this was one of them, has chickens crossing the road, so fits here! Again very bored military men, just waving people on by... with a smile!

Edited March 30, 2014 by samuijimmy

[samuijimmy]

My take of the same horn bill. Good old Canon sx50 with the zoooom would have helped a lot.

Are you stealing my bird!

You have better lens on that camera of yours than mine, Oilinky! Nice shots!

[Guest]

Are you stealing my bird!

You have better lens on that camera of yours than mine, Oilinky! Nice shots!

Well, technically, I saw the bird first and introduced it to you, therefore I'm the rightful owner of the bird.

Honestly I did not have an idea it would have been so difficult to take a photo of this bird. I had to boost up the ISO to even try to take a photo while it was flying in the jungle. With the lack of zoom, the images had to be cropped so that those looked like "Hey I took a shot of the moon, it's the one pixel on the right". Arggh

You won this battle, but there is more to the war of images and imagination. I'll hope the next battleground will be at Koh Yao Yai (with more TV photography forum members. Anyone reading this, consider yourself invited).

[samuijimmy]

Are you stealing my bird!

You have better lens on that camera of yours than mine, Oilinky! Nice shots!

Well, technically, I saw the bird first and introduced it to you, therefore I'm the rightful owner of the bird.

Honestly I did not have an idea it would have been so difficult to take a photo of this bird. I had to boost up the ISO to even try to take a photo while it was flying in the jungle. With the lack of zoom, the images had to be cropped so that those looked like "Hey I took a shot of the moon, it's the one pixel on the right". Arggh

You won this battle, but there is more to the war of images and imagination. I'll hope the next battleground will be at Koh Yao Yai (with more TV photography forum members. Anyone reading this, consider yourself invited).

Hi Oilinky, yes you are correct .... just yanking your chain about "my bird"

The problem with catching these shots, the birds appear so quickly, one does not have much time for fiddling with settings on the camera... lucky for me after you showed me were to look, I had done some adjustments.... and only waited about 10 or 15 minutes for the same bird in the tree you showed me... so I was ready to go.

The second shot I got, I had just sat down and there it appeared.... in different location....

I am not one to sit in wait for hours ... so was very lucky with that...

As for Koh Yao Yai, .... so many places to see around Thailand it makes it difficult to decide ! Let's see how much interest there is... timing is an important factor, with weather etc!

Thali Noi, northern Songkhla (Pattilung area) is nice too, although I have probably done that a dozen times already.... but it still takes my breathe away every time, I go there...

Let's see what transpires !

Edited March 31, 2014 by samuijimmy

[hanno]

Any excuse to go birding in Thailand is fine with me......

[draggons]

Help with the name please guys. Trying to document all the birds we have in the garden.

[draggons]

Zebra Dove.

[draggons]

Bee Eater?

[Old Croc]

Help with the name please guys. Trying to document all the birds we have in the garden.

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Sun Bird of some type. Hard to tell from the picture

[draggons]

Cheers Old Croc, wondered if it was some kind of Sun Bird but not sure of the type.

Yellow Vented Bulbuls.

Edited March 31, 2014 by draggons

[Carib]

Help with the name please guys. Trying to document all the birds we have in the garden.

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This could be a little spiderhunter

Found a site, but googling no doubt will come up with more.

http://www.globosapiens.net/britman/picture-little-spiderhunter-arachnothera-longirostra-69269.html

Hmmm, this one comes close too http://www.pbase.com/peterericsson/image/93116787

Edited March 31, 2014 by Carib

[Carib]

Bee Eater?

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Pretty sure it is the plain throated sunbird

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plain-throated_Sunbird_(Anthreptes_malacensis)_-_Flickr_-_Lip_Kee.jpg

[jack2964]

Help with the name please guys. Trying to document all the birds we have in the garden.

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I figure this is an Olive-backed sunbird possibly female although the dark patch on the crown got me confused.

[jack2964]

Bee Eater?

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This could be a Brown-throated sunbird (male). Not a bee-eater for sure and there isn't a 'Plain-throated sunbird' far as I know.

[jack2964]

Don't be jealous now folks, I get called 'hansum man' all the time:

Also from Korat zoo-(Red-headed vulture).

[hanno]

Don't be jealous now folks, I get called 'hansum man' all the time:

Also from Korat zoo-(Red-headed vulture).

Come to Cambodia to see them in the wild.

[VerbalKint]

Help with the name please guys. Trying to document all the birds we have in the garden.

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think it's an olive backed sunbird (female)

[hanno]

Olive-backed sounds good.

[samuijimmy]

Cannot remember if I have posted this before or not....

Thali Noi Lake northern Songkhla.... Cormorants in wait....

[hanno]

Cannot remember if I have posted this before or not....

Thali Noi Lake northern Songkhla.... Cormorants in wait....

Eh, yes

[T_Dog]

Found this fledgling sitting on the fence after vacating the nest in one of our Lomyai trees. Finally flew off into the cornfield and then saw mom joining in.

[Robby nz]

Hope I'm not too late to sneak in with a hornbill.

Just got back last night, that's my excuse and I'm stuck with it.

[samuijimmy]

Hope I'm not too late to sneak in with a hornbill.

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Just got back last night, that's my excuse and I'm stuck with it.

Better late than never !!! Great shot!

[Robby nz]

some very beautiful birds in this country, unfortunately few either get to see them or notice them when they do.

Asian Fairy Bluebird.

Male

Female

Edited April 16, 2014 by Robby nz

[Lazy Sod]

[Mousehound]

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White-vented Myna

very common North of Hua Hin - not on Peninsular Thailand. Same family as starlings.

[Lazy Sod]

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White-vented Myna

very common North of Hua Hin - not on Peninsular Thailand. Same family as starlings.

Thank you Mousehound - I took it this morning in BKK - I thought it was probably a Myna but wasn't sure because when I'd googled it I noticed the common ones normally have a yellow spot behind the eyes.

[Robby nz]

A bird of the swamps, these were in a wet harvested paddy.

Pheasant tailed Jacana.

This one in non breeding plumage.

They change their clothes to this when breeding time comes around.

But then don't we all dress in our best to attract the opposite sex.

[sunshine51]

Baby BulBuls in one of me missus plants...

[samuijimmy]

Hornbill, at Songkhla Zoo.... much larger than the one seen in the wild, off the west coast! (just found this, I knew it was somewhere! )