Nice to see.

 

With the amount of predators (baby monitors, tukkae, snakes, other birds, etc) in my garden, its been very rare occasion that chicks have fledged.

 

Baby monitor lizard living in a drain, getting braver and braver, starts travelling around the garden, got caught by the green tree snake. We set it free as you see in the video. Lizard went up the tree, snake along the ground but it doubled-back up the tree and caught the lizard again. Wife set the lizard free a 2nd time...we then left them to it. Can't imagine the lizard survived as the snake was quick.

 

 

 

Empty Nest ...

... they grow up so fast, then leave you ... ????????????

Yesterday ... 

 

Today ...

It's a very clean nest. Not much sign of bird poop in it. Impressive nest keeping!

9 minutes ago, asf6 said:

It's a very clean nest. Not much sign of bird poop in it. Impressive nest keeping!

Yep.  Looks cleaner than some humans houses I know.  

 

 

Yellow-headed Blackbird is indeed it's name and a cool looking bird. Snapped them in Montana, USA a few years back. 

I regularly see an unusual pair in the soi. They squawk like Mynahs, they strut like mynahs, they are the same size and shape as Mynahs, but they are less reluctant to fly as Mynahs.  They have black backs and wings, but white heads and bellies. I cannot get close enough  to photograph, nor can I find anything in my book nor on Google which resembles them closely enough. What might they be?

A black collared starling maybe?

3 hours ago, Maybole said:

I regularly see an unusual pair in the soi. They squawk like Mynahs, they strut like mynahs, they are the same size and shape as Mynahs, but they are less reluctant to fly as Mynahs.  They have black backs and wings, but white heads and bellies. I cannot get close enough  to photograph, nor can I find anything in my book nor on Google which resembles them closely enough. What might they be?

Maybe......

Asian Collared starling 

 

Or Asia pied starling

 

The collared starling is very close but I cannot see the yellow under the eye. However I may not have been near enough to see that.

We have the Pask-Jonansit one of the late Kings projects, attached to the dam is a concrete canal system, suppling locale famers with water for irrigation, but 90% is not used and has grown wild, ideal for birds.

This I found near me, the nests of the Weaver bird which one I do not know, they make nests like this in colonially, have seen them before but this is about the most I have seen in one area.

15 hours ago, kickstart said:

nests of the Weaver bird which one I do not know

Baya Weaver 

Anyone know what this bird is? It can't fly and we don't know what to feed it. Looks like an insect-eater though. 

This is on the outskirts of Bangkok. 

24 minutes ago, orientalist said:

Anyone know what this bird is? It can't fly and we don't know what to feed it. Looks like an insect-eater though. 

This is on the outskirts of Bangkok. 

Was thinking bulbul, but not with the ring around the eye.   You are correct though, probably an insect eater and not exactly young and may recover quickly.

 

Any obvious injury ?  A snap of its underside may help.  The insect eater is all one needs to know.

 

Water would be the priority for it, and maybe get some mealy worms and crush 'em up for it.

 

May want to put some small stones/gravel down for it also, as some birds use to help with digestion.

 

Maybe a juvenile Taiga Flycatcher.

 

4 hours ago, orientalist said:

Anyone know what this bird is? It can't fly and we don't know what to feed it. Looks like an insect-eater though. 

Juvenile Common Iora. Insectivore, but also eats fruit and berries. 

Doing an image search on Google it looks more like a Green Iora. So far, it is green all over. But it seems to be weak or injured so I'm not sure we'll get to see it's adult plumage. 

6 hours ago, orientalist said:

Anyone know what this bird is? It can't fly and we don't know what to feed it. Looks like an insect-eater though. 

This is on the outskirts of Bangkok. 

Common iora

3 hours ago, orientalist said:

Doing an image search on Google it looks more like a Green Iora. So far, it is green all over. But it seems to be weak or injured so I'm not sure we'll get to see it's adult plumage. 

It's a juvenile Common Iora.

 

FYI...Bangkok is out of Green Iora range. It's strictly a peninsular species in Thailand and the Thai pennisula is the absolute northern most of it's range. 

'Er  indoors is about the only Bird I get in my Garden

Not quit a garden, this rice field was cut a couple of weeks ago, still a lot of water in it, these Herons are feeding on the water snails, they are doing the farmer a favor, the snails will eat the young rice plants on the next crop. 

Anyone have ideas?

 

Found floundering in a pond.

 

 

 

Definitely a waterfowl, and with those big A$$ feet, Ms Google lens is telling me 'White-breasted Waterhen', and I'd go with that.

 

Also needs to get put back, as Mama will be looking for it.

https://ebird.org/species/whbwat1

2 hours ago, kickstart said:

Not quit a garden, this rice field was cut a couple of weeks ago, still a lot of water in it, these Herons are feeding on the water snails, they are doing the farmer a favor, the snails will eat the young rice plants on the next crop. 

Those are Asian Openbill Storks. 

 

These days they are the only species of stork doing well here in Thailand...other species extinct or critically  endangered, due to habitat loss. 

 

The Asian Openbill Stork was lucky due to humans introducing the invasive apple snail from Africa.  This bird feeds almost exclusively on snails, and the large apple snails are a good and plentiful supply of food for them in the rice fields.  

 

Farmers also appreciate the storks for eating the snails. So it's turned out to be a win win situation. 

 

 

4 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Those are Asian Openbill Storks. 

 

These days they are the only species of stork doing well here in Thailand...other species extinct or critically  endangered, due to habitat loss. 

 

The Asian Openbill Stork was lucky due to humans introducing the invasive apple snail from Africa.  This bird feeds almost exclusively on snails, and the large apple snails are a good and plentiful supply of food for them in the rice fields.  

 

Farmers also appreciate the storks for eating the snails. So it's turned out to be a win win situation. 

 

 

Ops, thanks for that and the information, Storks not Herons, I am in Lopburi province, not a lot of rice grown in this area, mainly cassava, maize, sugar cane up to a few years ago never saw any Storks in this area,

This year being so dry everything is late very little rice being harvested, I would say that is why they is so many on one field. 

I've seen plenty of storks, though not many varieties.  Open Billed & Painted mostly.

 

so many I can't even fit them into the shot

Common Flameback - Dinopium javanense

 

 

 

 

 

Overhead of the garden ... Oriental Honey Buzzard