13 hours ago, Greenside said:

Viang Kum Kam, (Chiang Mai, Nong Hoi Area):   We've got plenty of common Mynas and Bulbuls along with some koels and a vast number of Asian Palm Swifts that come to feed on the wing in great flocks.  Here's a  a lineated barbet (the green one ) with what I'm told is a hoopoe  and a startlingly orange visitor that showed up this morning and spent ages way up in a tree arranging its feathers for the perfect takeoff which, of course, it performed the moment I had to change the camera battery. I'm interested in doing some wildlife and bird photography and would be pleased to hear from anyone in or around Chiang Mai who could help me get up to speed.  Please send me a DM if that's you.  

I enjoy bird photography, but not in CM area.   With those snaps, I don't think you need much help.  What camera & lens are you using ?   I'm a Sony fan myself.

 

Very nice 👍

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I enjoy bird photography, but not in CM area.   With those snaps, I don't think you need much help.  What camera & lens are you using ?   I'm a Sony fan myself.

 

Very nice 👍

Glad you liked them - Do you know what the Orange bird is?  I was a Canon and then Sony user from 2003 until about three weeks ago when arthritis in my hands finally made using the Sony A7iv too painful to be fun any more so I swapped the camera and accessories for an Olympus Systems OM1 in an attempt to save enough weight to let me get started on birds and wildlife.  It's really some tips from an OM System user that I'm hoping for - the camera has a lot of good features but it's not the most intuitive interface I've ever used and adding a 100-400mm lens didn't do much for the weight saving!  Those are the first two OKish Pictures I've taken with it but I'll carry on learning.

 

39 minutes ago, Greenside said:

 

Not too heavy, just over 1.6 kg

Mine, just over 2.9 kg 

@6400 & 200-600mm

 

I use LightRoom & DeNoize to clean things up when needed.  DeNoize is awesome software, and one time buy in vs subscription.  

 

On 6/14/2025 at 3:24 PM, Bredbury Blue said:

Never seen in my garden before the last 3 days, and we've lived in this house for +20 years, is a pair of, I assume pied starlings (?).

 

Had the grass cut short and they go around the lawn digging.

 

Very nervy birds so these are the best pictures I could get, hiding in the kitchen.

 

 

 

The pair visit every time we cut the grass, for just one day, poking around, making lots of holes in the turf, successfully searching for worms. 

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo - Dicrurus paradiseus

https://ebird.org/species/grtdro1

 

 

 

I don't have a garden.  I do have a condo on the 26th floor overlooking the Chao Phraya river.  I see different birds flying around every day I am here.   

 

Two days ago, 8/9/25, I saw a large, dark colored, bird gliding around close to the surface of the river.   Getting my binoculars, I watched it glide around for several minutes before it caught a thermal and floated up above the height of the condo and around it out of sight.  

 

As it was a large bird I searched the internet for Thailand eagles.    I found a match to the bird I saw, a Black Eagle.   According to the internet this eagle is mostly found in forested mountain regions of Thailand. 

 

Does anyone know if it is uncommon or rare to see Black Eagles in the Nonthaburi area of Thailand? 

 

I cannot recall seeing any eagles in Thailand, vs. in the area I live in Pennsylvania where I occasionally see Bald Eagles.   I was told there are about 80 Bald Eagles that live in a park by the river about 2 miles from my house.    I saw one catch a fish in the creek next to some property I own in Pennsylvania. 

1 hour ago, radiochaser said:

I don't have a garden.  I do have a condo on the 26th floor overlooking the Chao Phraya river.  I see different birds flying around every day I am here.   

 

Two days ago, 8/9/25, I saw a large, dark colored, bird gliding around close to the surface of the river.   Getting my binoculars, I watched it glide around for several minutes before it caught a thermal and floated up above the height of the condo and around it out of sight.  

 

As it was a large bird I searched the internet for Thailand eagles.    I found a match to the bird I saw, a Black Eagle.   According to the internet this eagle is mostly found in forested mountain regions of Thailand. 

 

Does anyone know if it is uncommon or rare to see Black Eagles in the Nonthaburi area of Thailand? 

 

I cannot recall seeing any eagles in Thailand, vs. in the area I live in Pennsylvania where I occasionally see Bald Eagles.   I was told there are about 80 Bald Eagles that live in a park by the river about 2 miles from my house.    I saw one catch a fish in the creek next to some property I own in Pennsylvania. 

Common in TH, not so much in Krung Thep/Nonthaburi area:

https://ebird.org/species/blaeag1

 

TH has a few common, and not so common Eagles (19), especially White-bellied Sea Eagle, as have lots of photos of those.

https://ebird.org/species/wbseag1

 

https://www.thainationalparks.com/list-of-birds-of-thailand

40 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Common in TH, not so much in Krung Thep/Nonthaburi area:

https://ebird.org/species/blaeag1

 

TH has a few common, and not so common Eagles (19), especially White-bellied Sea Eagle, as have lots of photos of those.

https://ebird.org/species/wbseag1

 

https://www.thainationalparks.com/list-of-birds-of-thailand

This is the one I saw.. 

That coloration and the spread of feathers at the end of the wings.   

Not once did I see it flap it's wings all during the time I watched it through my binoculars (pictures from internet). 

 

 

This little fella flew into the window, I think.  I gave him some water, in case he takes too long to recover and gets dehydrated while recovering from it's headache.  Didn't take too long for recovering & flew away.

Not exactly in the garden, but from the garden / veranda ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fantastic

The wife's friend took the photos from his garden in Koh Chang.

 

3 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

The wife's friend took the photos from his garden in Koh Chang.

 

Very nice ... 👍

 

Lineated Barbet - Psilopogon lineatus

 

 

 

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Lineated Barbet - Psilopogon lineatus

 

 

 

You take some fantastic shots

1 hour ago, sometime said:

You take some fantastic shots

 

THANKS ... camera lens makes me look good, as don't need to get too close along with lots of birds around the house.  

 

A couple Barbets, though skittish.  This one finally profiled for me.  Hopped over to a tree branch, which I prefer, instead of sitting on wire, but got chased off by a Koel  😂

From the back veranda ... must be ride the cow day, 3 different cow, with 3 different birds.  One had 2 birds on it for a while.

 

 

 

 

On 10/18/2025 at 8:17 AM, KhunLA said:

Lineated Barbet - Psilopogon lineatus

 

 

 

Thanks for these pictures. Years ago, when I was quite new here, I saw what I thought was a small parrot or lovebird - but I didn't think there were any parrots in Thailand - entering a nesting hole in a tree, in a Tesco carpark. I searched for the bird name you've given and the Wikipedia page showed the bird at a nest hole, exactly as I remembered seeing it. Never seen another one here but mystery solved.

2 hours ago, MartinL said:

Thanks for these pictures. Years ago, when I was quite new here, I saw what I thought was a small parrot or lovebird - but I didn't think there were any parrots in Thailand - entering a nesting hole in a tree, in a Tesco carpark. I searched for the bird name you've given and the Wikipedia page showed the bird at a nest hole, exactly as I remembered seeing it. Never seen another one here but mystery solved.

They have a few Parrots / Parakeets here, and been lucky enough to get some snaps of them.  Spotted them locally, Prachuap,, some Red-breasted Parakeets, and some Vernal Hanging-Parrots, over by Khao Sok Nat. Park area.  

 

On 10/26/2025 at 10:50 PM, KhunLA said:

They have a few Parrots / Parakeets here, and been lucky enough to get some snaps of them.  Spotted them locally, Prachuap,, some Red-breasted Parakeets, and some Vernal Hanging-Parrots, over by Khao Sok Nat. Park area.  

@martini  OK, don't want to leave you hanging or go too far off topic, though most of my photos aren't 'in' the garden, but at least from the house or lots on the soi we own.  If I can see it, within 50 ish meters, then I can usually get a decent snap of it.

 

Anyway, some parrots / parakeets, locally, and not so local, with couple others, 'in tree' snaps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The wife saw these pics on her Facebook page. Male and female. Didn't say where.

 

 

Wife and i just noticed a bird we've noticed before in our +20 years in our mooban,  a Blue-tailed Bee-eater, sat in a tree near the pond. Stunning bird (pic from Wiki)

17 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Wife and i just noticed a bird we've noticed before in our +20 years in our mooban,  a Blue-tailed Bee-eater, sat in a tree near the pond. Stunning bird (pic from Wiki)

 

Haven't taken notice of the species of Bee eaters around the house, and quite a few.  Only have a couple snaps of Blue tailed Bee eater, as didn't see them that often.

Are they seasonal?

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis

https://ebird.org/species/grecou1/TH-77

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few snaps today ... not in the garden ...

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/610576-for-the-birds/page/69/#findComment-20240315

 

Got done sorting thru a few more ...

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/610576-for-the-birds/page/69/#findComment-20240451