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On January 21, the trip I had been planning to Thailand since November got cancelled. Rapidly scrambling through the internet fortunately turned up one last spot on a Rockjumpers trip leaving a couple weeks earlier. Nabbed that spot and successfully changed plane reservations, and so off to Thailand from mid-February through early March. Led by Uthai Treesucon, maybe the best birding guide in Thailand, our small group included two guys from Canada, two from Florida, a couple from Puerto Rico, and for the first few days a guy from Australia. Great group, excellent guide, and overall a super trip. This trip was more intensive (relentless?) birding than my other trips, starting each day around 5 am and not stopping until around 7:30pm. In 17 days, the group saw or heard a total of 475 species of birds, as well as several kinds of monkeys, gibbons, mongoose, sambar, muntjac, mouse-deer, and sundry other flora and fauna. Here are some of my pictures from the trip, using my Nikon D90, usually with the 70-300mm lens at 300mm, with a few using the standard 18-105 mm lens. As always, some things are only captured as memories, such as the wonderful wai greetings, way-overloaded pickup trucks, omnipresent pictures of the benevolent king and glittering temples everywhere, and did I mention the leeches? Click on any of the thumbnails below to see a larger view of any of the pictures in a new window |
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