It took a while this
morning, but eventually we tracked down a Black-headed
Woodpecker and enjoyed prolonged scope views in the morning sunshine. So
with the major target bird under our belts we drove to a nice lodge near Kaeng
Krachen National Park and were able to enjoy a little ‘free time’ before
meeting for lunch. Anyway, a few of us saw Pale-legged
Leaf-Warbler and an Eastern Crowned
Warbler near the dining room, along with a few Greater and Lesser Necklaced
Laughingthrushes.
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| Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush |
After lunch we drove to
one of secluded drinking pools and settled into the photo blinds and waited to
see what would appear. As it happens it took several hours for things to kick
off and apart from the laughingthrushes again nothing much happened for a
while. Over the next hour or so birds started to trickle in with Brown-cheeked Fulvetta, Black-naped Monarch, White-rumped Shama, Racket-tailed Treepie, Greater Racket-tailed Drongo and
others.
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| Black-naped Monarch |
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| White-rumped Shama |
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| Racket-tailed Treepie |
Eventually, 3 Scaly-breasted Partridges came in and I
breathed a huge sigh of relief when a lone Bar-backed
Partridge started feeding in front of us.
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| Bar-backed Partridge |
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| Scaly-breasted Partridge |
Later in the afternoon more and
more birds flew in to bathe and we saw several Tickell’s Blue Flycatchers, a single female Blue-throated Flycatcher, White-bellied
Erpornis, Pied Fantail, Puff-throated and Abbott’s Babblers, and a
couple of Lesser Mouse Deers
also appeared.
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| Tickell's Blue Flycatcher - female. |
Best bird was the
extremely shy Large Scimitar-babbler that appeared a couple of times – wow!!
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| Large Scimitar-Babbler |
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| Large Scimitar-Babbler |
Driving back to the lodge
we stopped as a Large-tailed Nightjar
was sat on the road and giving fine views.
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