Meanwhile, all around us
were large gatherings of other waders with Great
Knot, Marsh Sandpiper, both Greater and Lesser Sandplovers, Broad-billed
Sandpipers, and other more familiar species such as Dunlin, Red Knot, Curlew Sandpiper and others. Once we were
done with the Spoonie we nailed a Far
Eastern Curlew hiding pretty well in a huge flock of Eurasian Curlews before checking out an area which gave us Chinese Egret, a couple of Terek Sandpipers and Golden-bellied Gerygone as well. There
was also some Gull-billed, Little, Caspian, and both Greater
and Lesser Crested Terns seen this
morning as well.
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| Broad-billed Sandpipers |
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| Just a small part of the huge Great Knot flock... |
As we had been watching
the Spoonie for so long the flock of Nordmann’s
Greenshanks had moved from their regular area so we drove around for a
while until we came across four of them in a flock that also had 29 Asiatic Dowitchers as well. Wow!
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| Asiatic Dowitchers |
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| Some distant Nordmann's Greenshanks |
Plenty
more photos were taken although they weren’t that close but our drive around
these salt pans gave us numerous opportunities to get extremely close views of
a variety of other waders such as Spotted
Redshank, Pacific Golden Plover
and yet more Broad-billed Sandpipers.
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| Broad-billed Sandpipers |
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| Always nice to get such close views of common waders - Common Greenshank |
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| Black-winged Stilts, Curlew Sandpiper and Marsh Sandpiper |
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| Pacific Golden Plover |
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| Kentish Plover |
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| Temminck's Stint |
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| Wood Sandpiper |
Following lunch we headed
out to the sandspit at Laem Pak Bia where both Malaysian and White-faced
Plovers showed well, along with Pacific
Reef and Chinese Egrets, Great Crested Tern, and also 5 Pallas’s Gulls as well.
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| Malaysian Plover |
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| Gull and tern roost at Laem Pak Bia... |
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| White-faced Plover |
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| White-faced Plover - female |
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| White-faced Plover |
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| White-faced Plover |
Leaving here we found a few White-shouldered Starlings and an Indochinese Bushlark before heading to another area where we enjoyed close views of Indian Cormorant and several White-winged Terns, as well as seeing Pin-tailed Snipe, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Black-crowned
Night heron, and at dusk an Indian
Nightjar showed well.
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| White-winged Tern |
Literally 1000’s of Lyle’s Flying Foxes flying overhead from their roost site was a
quite spectacular sighting to end a fantastic day.
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