Thaibirds and more

Short-tailed Parrotbill 16-25 th of March 2016 By Peter Ericsson Email: pkknjj@yahoo.com No more bookings for 2 nd half of March gave me an excellent opportunity to do some birding on my own. For so long I have wanted to see the two specialties of Poo Suan Sai National Park in Loei province. Having visited it twice but only briefly so had not yielded neither Short-tailed Parrotbill nor Rufous-throated Fulvetta.  I had heard of the drought in the park with resultant visits from the Parrotbill to a small man made waterhole.   The drive was long but on good roads and took me the better part of the day. I did manage to arrive at 3 pm and immediately arranged to visit the hide. One of the rangers has taken upon himself this little project and for a small fee let’s one use the hide. The hide was made inside of a rather large water pipe and made me feel like I was sitting inside a 2WW bunker. It was dark and most of the birds coming in were small little brown things.