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  I had prepared a birding map for Moo Ban Pramong and I will update it when I come back here a second time. I will have to be home around lunch as they will bring back my curtains that have  been away for cleaning.
And I will go for a MRI scanning of my knee tonight, so it will only be a quick look for spoonbills and Kingfishers today. So come back here to www.aladdin.st in January and I will have up dated the map with more information. Click HERE for a full window map We drove past Krua Baan Pramong but I didn't see any of the Collared Kingfishers. We continued to the end of the road and we turned around driving back up past the Krua Baan Pramong. We continued to drive along the road towards the Dolphin Viewing Point. We had water filled fields with Egrets and Little Cormorants on our left hand side. On the right hand side we had buildings between the road and the creek. On this side I saw so many Kingfishers that I had never seen before.  Leaving Bangkok behind
 Leaving Bangkok behind
 A Little Cormorant on the field outside Krua Ban Pramong
 We come to the end of the road just south of Krua Ban Pramong and we turn around
 Fishing
 Fishing
 Collared Kingfisher
 Little Cormorant
 Little Cormorant
 Common Kingfisher
 Little Cormorant / นกกาน้ำเล็ก
 Little Cormorant / นกกาน้ำเล็ก
 Little Cormorant / นกกาน้ำเล็ก
 Black-capped Kingfisher
 Pond Heron
 We stop and I try to come close to a Black-capped Kingfisher
We are driving around in the car and we can come close to the birds. As soon as I try to get out of the car the birds fly away. Great Myna, there are plenty of them. They are also called White-vented Mynas. I have put the bird down as Great Myna. We had seen many Kingfishers, 3 different kinds. My driver is really a big help. Before he never saw any birds but this time he was spotting birds like never before. Now I only hope to see a Stork-billed Kingfisher and some spoon bill.  Great Myna - นกเอี้ยงหงอน
 Great Myna - นกเอี้ยงหงอน
 Black-winged stilt
 Black-capped Kingfisher
 Black-capped Kingfisher
 Black-capped Kingfisher
 Black-capped Kingfisher
 Black-capped Kingfisher
 Black-capped Kingfisher
We came down to a national park or something. It was the end of the road. I got out of the car and I walked back and I told the driver to come after me in 20 minutes. Coming down here and we approached a Black-capped Kingfisher. It was the driver that discovered the bird. We approached slowly and we were very close when we stopped. As soon as we stopped the Black-capped Kingfisher flew away. When he picked me up we drove back and we stopped at a tree, 2 meter away and there was another Black-capped Kingfisher that my driver spotted. I didn't saw the Kingfisher until it flew away. we crossed the creek and we were drove through some water filled paddies. I was hoping t see some spoon bills here, but I never saw any. Here was a lot of shore birds but they took off as soon as I got out of the car.  Egrets and Little Cormorants
 Egrets and Little Cormorants
 Shore birds ( I have given up trying to identify the shore birds)
 Shore birds
 Shore birds taking off when I get out of the car
 Dirt track between the paddies
 Dirt track between the paddies
 Dirt track between the paddies
 Black-winged Stilt - นกตีนเทียน
 Black-winged Stilt - นกตีนเทียน
   Road to the Mangrove bird watching area
 End of the road and we have reached the Mangrove bird watching area
 The mangrove bird watching area and dolphin exhibition
We park the car and we get out on the walking bridge through the mangrove. There is an exhibition about dolphins at the beginning of the walking bridge. But it looked to have been closed for a very long time. There were watch towers along the walking bridge so we could climb up to have a look around. We never saw any birds in the mangrove and when we were ready here we decided to drive back slowly to Bangkok keeping an eye out for birds on the way.  Dolphin exhibition
 Dolphin exhibition
 Walking bridge
 Wooden bridge for the Dare Devils - I will not get on this “plank”
 Wooden bridge for the Dare Devils - I will not get on this “plank”
 Mangrove bird watching area
 Mangrove bird watching area
 Mangrove bird watching area
 Mangrove bird watching area
 Mangrove bird watching area
 Leaving the mangrove bird watching area - Road going back to the main road
 Little Cormorant / นกกาน้ำเล็ก
Time to return to Bangkok and we drove slowly and I kept my eyes out for Kingfishers while we drove along. We rolled by a Black-capped Kingfisher and I told the driver to stop. He was sitting just one meter away from the road side on a wood frame looking for fish. The driver put the taxi in reverse and we rolled back. DARN! The Kingfisher took off just as I was about to take the picture. Well, now I know where to find the, the only disappointment have been the Stork-billed Kingfisher and the Spoonbill. But in January... We made a few stops on the way to take pictures of Kingfishers, they are everywhere and I will be back in January. We had a pleasant drive to Bangkok and I was back home around 12 and they were waiting for me with the curtains.  Collared Kingfisher - นกกินเปี้ยว
 Collared Kingfisher - นกกินเปี้ยว
 Collared Kingfisher - นกกินเปี้ยว
 Back in Bangkok
 Back in Bangkok
 Back in Bangkok
New curtains and I left for the MRI scanning, my appointment was at 7. But as you never know about the traffic here I left at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I had been at the Doctor yesterday and he booked a time for a MRI scanning at Rachvipa MRI Center I arrived 20 minutes before 6 and they told me to go kill time at a restaurant, Burger King. For sure not doing my knee any good. I was back in time for my MRI thing. It was more than 9 o'clock when I could finally return home with my pictures. Tomorrow morning, back to see the Doctor at Camillian Hospital at Thong Lor and I will have to bring my pictures.  I'm going in to that small hole
 The machine sounded like an old Flash Gordon show
 My new friends
Well, I have been home for a week and it had been a busy week, tomorrow I'm off to Calcutta for yet another Indian tiger safari. This promise to be exciting, so you better off clicking HERE to find out if we see any tigers.
    
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