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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 1799227" data-attributes="member: 45720">Yes, I think they're mine too.Not much to report on today - mind you after yesterday it's all downhill.Went back up to some of the local hills - and everything was quiet. Very. In the first 90 mins I had seen 5 birds. Not 5 types: 5 birds!Mind you, two were ticks!!!Probably because it was so quiet the tiniest movement got noticed: a little skulker was hiding in a bamboo thicket, very still.It thought I was unable to see it I think, and started preening; so good views were had: Manchurian bush warbler. Not the most exiting bird in the world but not easy to see.Then the Pecking Rule applied: and a bit of stalking was needed to approach the woody.Eventually I was within yards but the bird flew off: poor view of a BAY WOODPECKER, male too - I could see the red nape patch. But fortunately he wasn't alone and the female flew to perch in sight, looked at me for a moment & flew.And that was about it - the usual suspects - but nothing exciting. I got back to the hire car & was about to depart when I saw a flock of swifts above. The vast majority of perhaps 100 birds were White-throated needletail swifts: a rare visitor to Thailand I think. I got excellent views - which you need to id these from close relatives. They were joined in the scrum by a half dozen Asian house martins - the best views I've had of those - several House swifts, a few Indo/Himalayan swiftlets, two male Shikras(!) and best of all a Rufous-winged buzzard briefly through.Later I did some different habitat & though no ticks I saw a few new species for the trip - Hoopoe, Brown shrike (the 4th shrike sp.), phillipensis Blue rock thrushes - gorgeous birds - and Plain prinias. Also a male Plaintive cuckoo in the rice paddies really close was nice. Pied bushchats & Striated swallows - but strangely in the wetland habitat - no wagtails nor pipits.Back to the old routes tomorrow - hire car returned.</blockquote>

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