Birds in your garden

[Bredbury Blue 2640]

39 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

I dont know what kind of bat they are but they are very cute.

 

Visited this place end of last year and was amazed at the masses of flying foxes in all of the Wat's trees. Here (Wat Pho Bang Khla) and Wat  Paknam Jolo a couple of kilometres away are well worth a visit (nice river trip available also from Wat to Wat) - on the Bangpakong river in Chachoengsao.

 

Wat Pho Bang Khla Flying Foxes

https://maps.app.goo.gl/pV6sAv5bKZG7xe2c7

 

 

Edited April 12 by Bredbury Blue

[Bredbury Blue 2640]

I was watching some of this guy's YouTube videos on sparrows nests he makes, when this one came up to remind me it's brutal out there for chicks.

 

 

He later change the design by adding an entrance in to the coconut, made from a short length of pvc piping, to prevent bigger birds access in to the coconut nest and to the contents (chicks).

 

 

 

[JetsetBkk 8307]

 

27 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

I was watching some of this guy's YouTube videos on sparrows nests he makes, when this one came up to remind me it's

brutal out there for chicks.

 

 

He later change the design by adding an entrance in to the coconut, made from a short length of pvc piping, to prevent bigger birds access in to the coconut nest and to the contents (chicks).

 

And this is why I hate those Asian Koels. They are brood parasites, vermin, cuckoos. It's what cuckoos do - they destroy the eggs and the young of garden songbirds. 

 

On 4/1/2021 at 7:27 PM, JetsetBkk said:

On 4/1/2021 at 11:34 AM, n00dle said:

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Also rarely seen but in obvious abundance is this <deleted>

 

 

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I bought an air pistol because of that "deleted" bird. I never hit it because it was always too high up in the trees, but I managed to scare it off a few times. I've no idea what the neighbours thought hearing this "deleted" Nok Gow-wow followed by a couple of rapid bangs.

 

I will keep my pistol at the ready if it/they ever return. 

[jak2002003 5234]

13 hours ago, JetsetBkk said:

 

 

And this is why I hate those Asian Koels. They are brood parasites, vermin, cuckoos. It's what cuckoos do - they destroy the eggs and the young of garden songbirds. 

 

 

I will keep my pistol at the ready if it/they ever return. 

Hope you are joking.  Why put human emotions and morals onto animals like that?

 

It's what they have evolved to do to be able to survive.  It's also keeping nature in balance and is part of the ecosystem.  Everything plays it's part.

 

The Koel does a number of useful things I closing being one of the best fruit tree seed dispersal agents...helping to native trees and plants.  It and cuckoos also eat pest species that other birds can't eat... Such as hairy caterpillars.

 

They help keep the other bird populations to a balanced number.  Their usual hosts are starlings and mynah bird type birds, as well as crows....none of which are endangered. 

 

Please don't go around killing native wild animals that you think are being nasty.  If you take that view you would be shooting all the predator animals like eagles, hawks, tigers and snakes...just because you think they kill other animals. 

 

 

[Bredbury Blue 2640]

Was watching a good battle in my garden which lasted about 10mins.

 

Regularly have a coucal skulking around the garden. It was being attacked and chased from tree to tree by two fantails - they occasionally divebomb me if I'm in a part of the garden they don't want me in.

 

It got interesting when an adult squirrel (we have squirrel nests also - bloody things amuse me but eat a little bit of a mango before moving on to the next mango) started climbing to the top of the tree I think it or the fantails have a nest in. 

 

The coucal started making noises I haven't heard before.

 

This was all going on above my head in 3 trees as I struggled to get a picture or video - I failed.

 

Eventually the coucal flew off - it will be back.

 

 

 

 

[sharecropper 2366]

I was recently and happily woken every morning in Nong Khai by this bird. I think also a type of cuckoo?

[Skeptic7 4415]

1 hour ago, sharecropper said:

I was recently and happily woken every morning in Nong Khai by this bird. I think also a type of cuckoo?

Also an Asian Koel. Have 2 or 3 different calls. 

[Bredbury Blue 2640]

Had a weird hour or so today.

 

Admiring the wife's new orchid in the garden, we spotted a pile of feathers from a dove right in the middle of the lawn: can only assume a cat had had it and not monitor lizard or snake.

 

Not long later we had a green tree snake somehow get in to the kitchen and behind the fridge. The fridge is next to the external door so I took the mosi screen door off, sprayed mosi spray at the snake (I could see it at the side of the fridge), seconds later it literally flew out the back door and away - it moved that quick it was like a flash of colour.

 

Not long later I went walking laps in the park. First lap saw this little fella in the middle of the footpath  - lots of cats around there. Second lap it was still there so I tried to pick it up as it didn't move quickly or far from me but it fluttered up on to a fence. As it was in a precarious position I tried again, it flew back past me to where it'd been on the ground. Knowing it could fly and seeing 4 birds adults in the garden opposite I made it fly in that direction on to the garden wall. Third lap it was inside the garden, with an adult, tapping beaks together. Days away from being strong enough to fly properly, will it make it?

 

 

[jak2002003 5234]

1 hour ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Had a weird hour or so today.

 

Admiring the wife's new orchid in the garden, we spotted a pile of feathers from a dove right in the middle of the lawn: can only assume a cat had had it and not monitor lizard or snake.

 

Not long later we had a green tree snake somehow get in to the kitchen and behind the fridge. The fridge is next to the external door so I took the mosi screen door off, sprayed mosi spray at the snake (I could see it at the side of the fridge), seconds later it literally flew out the back door and away - it moved that quick it was like a flash of colour.

 

Not long later I went walking laps in the park. First lap saw this little fella in the middle of the footpath  - lots of cats around there. Second lap it was still there so I tried to pick it up as it didn't move quickly or far from me but it fluttered up on to a fence. As it was in a precarious position I tried again, it flew back past me to where it'd been on the ground. Knowing it could fly and seeing 4 birds adults in the garden opposite I made it fly in that direction on to the garden wall. Third lap it was inside the garden, with an adult, tapping beaks together. Days away from being strong enough to fly properly, will it make it?

 

 

So cute. Looks like a magpie robin, and these kinds of birds leave the nest before they can fly. So long as it finds some cover and shrubbery to climb up onto it stands as good a chance as any. 

[Bredbury Blue 2640]

1 hour ago, jak2002003 said:

Looks like a magpie robin,

 

The adults were magpie robins so I thought so.