Krabi Urban Forest

After the awesome experience with the owl, my next destination is Krabi. Famous for its beautiful beaches and water sports. A very popular short get away destination.

While on our way to Krabi, saw an elephant on the truck. This must be one of the elephant that lost its freedom to the many tourist that visits Krabi for the elephant show or worse rides. 

The lamp post here are all decorated with White-bellied Sea Eagle. This must be one of the very common eagle here in Krabi.

Another big sculpture of Krabi that not to be missed is this giant mud crab. Since Krabi is situated at the mouth of Krabi River, which also means it is just next to huge mangroves forest where mud crabs are found. A very suitable sculpture for this place.

Talking about mangroves, this is where I am headed. A small board walk just outside the busy Krabi town.

The visitors can get real close to the mangroves with this concrete boardwalk.

The mangroves looks very healthy.

A male Blue fiddler crab showing me his huge arm.

Another female fiddler crab happy feeding before the tide return.

A very familiar and also common here in Krabi, a Collared Kingfisher

A not so common Brown Winged Kingfisher. I was hoping to see Ruddy kingfisher, I keep hearing their call but none of them willing to be photographed. Either too high up or deep in the forest.

Without the Ruddy Kingfisher, I will use this Mangrove Pitta to end this post. Mangrove pitta from Krabi mangrove forest...  :)

Many Faces of Barred eagle-owl

After spending 2 days in Krung Ching Watwerfall, is time to head back to Krabi for a night in order to catch my flight back to Singapore. While on the way to Krabi, we stop by at a rubber plantation to try our luck.

This Southern Thailand trip has been a real good one for me. Looks like my good luck is continuing... see what I found! A not so common nocturnal bird - a Barred eagle-owl

The owl must have geard our foot steps and open one eye to peep at us.

With both eyes widely open.

Since we means no harm, the owl go back to his sleep again.

A sudden strong wind wake the owl one more time.

While the branches still sway in the wind, the owl use the opportunity to do some stretching.

One wing at a time.

Changing the leg while stretching

AFter the stretching, the owl seem to be getting ready to go back to his sleep.

We leave the owl and let him continue with his sleep. What an awesome experience!

Krung Ching Waterfall Birding After Lunch

After the simple yet satisfying instant noodle as lunch, we continue our birding around the Krung Ching Waterfall area. I first saw this Barred flying dragon glide above me and while looking at it, I found another surprise!

 Thank you flying dragon for showing me the presence of Rufous-collared kingfisher

 More flowerpecker for this trip, is the Yellow-vented flowerpecker that caught my attention.

 A rather common bird in this area - White-rumped shama.

Not a common sighting but happy to see Grey-headed canary-flycatcher again as we don't get to see this bird in the garden.

 Another unexpected visitor, a Blue Winged Pitta

 Another common bird in this area - Orange-bellied flowerpecker

 Another not so common forest bird - Greater green leafbird

 Forest bird after forest bird, another rare find - Scarlet-rumped trogon

Seen this Raffle's malkoha yesterday. This time with better lighting.

Just as we are ready to call it a day, another cute bird came forward to say good bye to us. One of my favorite very beautiful bird - Black-and-yellow broadbill

Krung Ching Waterfall Birding

After the wet start to my trip, it was a great morning with sun shine on the very 1st bird for today. It is also my target bird - Green broadbill!

I have been trying to get a good look to this green beauty for a while without success. The appearance of this bird right infront of me in the morning really make my day!

A female Asian Fairy Bluebird quietly feeding on the fruits.

As compare, this Blue eared barbet make known to all that she is coming to feed. Follow the call, I can easily pin-point her location.

2nd flowerpecker of the trip is this - Crimson Breasted Flowerpecker

A Black Giant Squirrel joining the fun.

 Excitement after excitement, next to appear is the Chestnut Breasted Malkoha.

I didn't expect to see this white morphed of Asian Paradise Flycatcher here!

Not to mention with the long breeding tail.

A nice male Crimson Sunbird stop by for this flower.

With this Streak Eared Bulbul, is time to take a lunch break with our tomyam instant noodle. :)

Krung Ching Waterfall of South Thailand

This trip was made back in May and not suppose to meet with any wet weather. Upon reaching Krabi airport and while on the way to Krung Ching Waterfall, the sky started to pour heavily.

Luckily the rain stop when we arrived at the waterfall.

Well, I'm not here for the waterfall but for the birds. We start to looking for birds even though it was still drizzling.

First was this juvenile  Oriental magpie-robin.

Found a male Orange-bellied Flowerpecker on a fruiting Indian cherry tree.

There are more than one actually so as this female that not as brightly coloured as the male.

Pay attention to fruiting tree is always a good idea, a Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike also make an appearance.

Follow the knocking sound, saw this female Grey-and-buff Woodpecker.

Must be the good weather after the rain, saw another Blue-eared barbet.

My luck is too good, one excitement after another. Raffles's malkoha appear before the end of the bird wave.

One of my favorite in the broadbill family is this Black-and-yellow broadbill

Follow the foot steps of Black and yellow broadbill is this pair of Dusky broadbill. Wow! With this pair of broadbill appear right in front of me, will I be able to meet with my dream bird which is also my target of this trip?

Haha... luck is with me. I finally get to see my long time target bird - Green broadbill

Not the best night for astro photography due to the rain cloud but I give it a try...

With this, I happily end my day 1 of birding at Krung Ching Waterfall.