Thaibirds and more

18-20 th of July 2016 With Pete Mooney from New Jersey Pete is a herpetologist but has an interest for birds and so asked me to help out for a few days before he would join a couple of friends in Bali for some herping. We agreed to a plan as follow. Day 1. Fields of Petchaburi   in the morning and outskirts of Kaengkrachan National Park in the afternoon. Day 2. All day at the lower levels of Kaengkrachan. Day 3. Lower levels till noon and some fields on the way back to Bangkok in the afternoon Day 1. We got to the fields around 7 am. A lot less birds then in the dry season but still birdy enough to keep the interest. The 3 species of Weavers were still at it being busy in their breeding colonies. Asian Golden seemed to be the   most common this time. Some fields were full of Egrets and Openbills. A nice surprise was a Stork-billed Kingfisher that flew over our heads after it sang in some nearby trees for a bit. White-throated Kingfisher wasn’t far away eit