Bredbury Blue

I read that female Koels are elusive. Can vouch for that. In 19 years in this house, seen a female twice, males easy to see.

Was thinking the other day how I haven't heard any Koel calls in recent times around my house. One of my favourite sounds; THE sound of southeast Asia for me. Never understand why people dislike or get upset by koels calling each other. Doesn't bother me at all, in fact I like it, when I hear them calling in the wee hours. Any reason they might move moved? Nothing particularly has changed in my area. Might they return? Are they only noisy during mating season? Edit: my wife says she hears them, must be me switching off. My wife's favourite is the bird that sings "I didn't do it, I didn't do it" - lapwing

I don't think you can. We regularly trim the trees in our garden which means occasionally a squirrel drey will come down with the branches we trim. They just go build another one. Buggers eat our papaya and mangoes (they nibble a mango and then move to the next and the next). They can also be very nosey, particularly the young ones. I don't mid them in the garden as they are entertaining but the wife (the gardener) hates them.

Not so ugly now ????

One week later...apologies for the quality, shooting blind with my camera up at arms length 20221106_170246.mp4

Seen at a local wat today

Not sure I understand your question, but yes Phi is elder and Kai is checken and the person's nickname. My advice - keep away from transliteration and learn to read thai. I reckon learning to read thai to a very basic level didn't take me long (a week?) but I still make many mistakes and I'm probably at a 7-10 Yr old thai kids level. Learning to read even basic thai is an eye opener and makes life so much easier and interesting. On transcription systems, I get so <deleted> off with the terrible and wrong spellings of thai towns and cities in to English. The number of years I was pronouncing Kanchanaburi as Khanchanaburi (wrong).

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Very few chicks make it at my place over the years. Squirrels, tukae or green snakes I'm not sure

It's really interesting to watch the coming and goings. I've got the wife interested over the years, my lads no so. The nest in my cycling helmet (has had chicks in it on 2 occasions) was really interesting. The nest was right next to the car driver's door when the car was parked. The adult birds would sit in a bush next to the car passengers door waiting till it was all clear to return to the nest. Kneeling on my sofa and looking out the window I could look in to and watch all the nest action. Weirdest I've had was a large monitor lizard (we live next to a klong) that dug a hole in the wife's bedding plants right next to the car. It didn't want to move and it was too close to walk past without worrying. I'd make it move though with a sweeping brush. 4th day it didn't return.

How many chicks?

Just lift my camera up to arms length for a view 20221030_160507.mp4

Back in August, had the nest on our (upstairs) bedroom window sill. One of the 2 chicks fledged and joined all the others that live in our garden (they sleep in the tree furthest from the house and are always first to arrive when I throw bread out). We have 2 more chicks. This nest is precariously perched on top of a light fitting, again on the south elevation (super hot), and is just above head height on the ground floor. Bird on nest doesn't seem too bothered when we walk past.

Very nice. What province is that?

https://youtu.be/Xh7RMNMGPw0

Chick is still on it's precarious nest. Mum or dad still checking in the chick

Have a dove or doves (zebras I think) that love sitting on the window ledge of the window which is right behind my bed, so they’re a bit annoying waking me up with their cooing as soon as dawn breaks. Had a look and saw they’d just started building a nest on the window ledge so I removed it hoping that would make them go away. A week later their noise was back – found they’d built the nest again and had laid 2 eggs. One chick is now left. The nest is totally exposed to sun, wind and rain – it’s on the south elevation so gets the worst of the sun – so it’s hard to believe that they build a nest which is so exposed.

The various links you may see on websites to the great book no longer work, but the archive link below should get you to the full online copy The Fundamentals of the Thai Language (Fifth Edition) by Stuart Campbell and Chuan Shaweevongs https://web.archive.org/web/20180821202823/http://www.lyndonhill.com/FunThai/CONTENTS.html Sent from my Galaxy

The website has been updated. But found an archive copy at https://web.archive.org/web/20180821202823/http://www.lyndonhill.com/FunThai/CONTENTS.html

Regular visitors...amazing balance in the wind

Yes it's correct. I very recently checked exactly the same thing out with our lawyers who gave me the same advise you received.

Thanks for asking. Initially after it crashed in to the car window (we do seem to get birds attacking their reflection) it seemed dead but the wife sat and massaged it for a while and it came to. She kept it in a box overnight and tried to feed it but it didn't eat. Next day she gave it to a neighbour who keeps birds to take to a vet she knows. Sadly it passed away poor thing.

Black-crowned Night Herons photos taken in northern Taiwan

Not exactly in my garden (or Thailand) but I was able to get really close without disturbing them - beautiful birds but didn't see them a catch anything in a river full of fish

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