EXPLORING NATURE & WILDLIFE OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

We are into Day 7 of our 8 days trip and today, we would be heading to Phang-Nga. We checked out of Krung Ching Homestay & Resort at 6am, and because our next destination was an additional add-on to the itinerary, we had to eat 7-11 breakfast on-the-go. After a long 2hrs journey, we had arrived at a place which I could not find it on Google map. The whole place was surrounded by plantations and our shooting area was in the plantation itself. We had a hike upwards into the plantation grounds, and settled down at a Hide at the top overlooking a view of rubber trees, and with lots of commando mosquitoes buzzing around. Mosquito coils were set up for us, and that saved us alot 😁  We set-up our gears and waited for the changing of shift of the white-morph Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher nesting, incubation period. According to the locals, the shift was changed at every 20~30 mins interval. When we arrived at around 8:30am, the birds had just swapped shift, therefore the next change wou...

It's Day 4 of our trip and today, we would be embarking a long journey down to Krung Ching, a place in the province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand. We checked-out of KKC Lake Hill Resort at 5am half-awaked, and had breakfast on-the-go due to time constraint, ie. 7-11. After travelling for about 2 plus hours and eating along the way, we had arrived at Hat Wanakorn National Park for owls photoshoot. It was also time for a toilet break after food. After alighting from the vehicle, most of us wanted to chiong for the toilet but the Spotted Owlet was already perching there, looking straight at us, delaying our toilet session 😁 It was quite an owlicious shooting this morning as they were all in pairs. We gotten the Spotted Owlets, the Asian Barred Owlets and the Brown Boobooks. These fellos were pretty active under a sunny day, despite being owls. The Indian Roller also came by for a photoshoot. We left the park at 9am and continued our journey down South. At last, after abou...