{"id":25027,"date":"2012-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=25027"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:31:12","slug":"birds-from-laem-pak-bia-part-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/birds-from-laem-pak-bia-part-2-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds from Laem Pak Bia, part 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second part that accounts some of my many photographic expeditions at Laem Pak Bia, a great area for waders and much more…<\/p>\n

December 23rd, 2008 & December 27th, 2008 – just before Christmas (08), we visited the King’s Project on a sunny day and got a few images.<\/p>\n

It was already pretty dry around Central Thailand and most of the ponds had little or no water. This keeps the waders in smaller areas and you can approach them a considerably better.<\/p>\n

This day I got two new species for me at the location: the Temmick’s Stint and the huge Stork-billed Kingfisher; the last one never seen there again; as I understand<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Common-Kingfisher – female by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Temminck’s Stint – non breed by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Stork-billed Kingfisher by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I managed to get really close to the Painted Stork, that somehow seemed more colorful that day… The noisy and funny Black-winged Stilt was in big numbers in the nearly dry ponds, while the non-breeding Little Grebe seemed common in the oxidation ponds kept full<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Painted Stork – portrait by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Black-winged Stilt by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Little Grebe – non breed by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

We then went back a few days later and it was a whole new set of birds we found!… lots of waders…
\nThe Golden Plover was perfectly camouflaged, the Wood Sandpiper froze and the Spotted Redshank didn’t minded at all<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pacific Golden Plover – non breed by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Wood Sandpiper – non breed by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Spotted Redshank – non breed by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

A Greater Coucal ran across the road, the Lapwings were screaming -as usual- and a cute Whiskered Tern gave signs of molting into a breeding adult<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Greater Coucal by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Red-Wattled Lapwing – sunny by Alex Vargas, Thailand 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second part that accounts some of my many photographic expeditions at Laem Pak Bia, a great area for waders and much more… December 23rd, 2008 & December 27th, 2008 – just before Christmas (08), we visited the King’s Project on a sunny day and got a few images. It was already pretty dry around Central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":2192574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Common-Kingfisher-4.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[738,1805,7787,1715,1670,833,1804,1802,1678,1684,1052,1803,880,980],"class_list":["post-25027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-winged-stilt","tag-greater-coucal","tag-kingfisher","tag-laem-pak-bia","tag-little-grebe","tag-pacific-golden-plover","tag-painted-stork","tag-red-wattled-lapwing","tag-redshank","tag-sandpiper","tag-spotted-redshank","tag-stork-billed-kingfisher","tag-temmincks-stint","tag-wood-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}