{"id":46826,"date":"2013-08-21T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:34:26","slug":"doi-inthanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/doi-inthanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Doi Inthanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

My trip to Thailand has been spent mostly with the family, which together with adverse rainy-season weather has left little time for photography. However I did get the family together for a quick day trip to Doi Inthanon, and the weather cooperated nicely.<\/p>\n

I had a quick look at Checkpoint 2, where a group of Thai bird photographers from Bangkok had set up, and had nice views of Chestnut-crowned Warbler, Grey-cheeked Fulvetta, Short-billed Minivet and Large Niltava. Then, after visiting the King and Queen chedis with the family, I took a quick circuit of the high altitude montane cloud forest boardwalk at the summit where I could photograph White-browed Shortwing, Silver-eared Laughingthrush, Ashy-throated Warbler, Snowy-browed Flycatcher and Chestnut-tailed Minla.<\/p>\n

I observed the iconic subspecies of Green-tailed Sunbird high up in the canopy but didn’t bother to try to photograph them at that distance in poor lighting conditions. Otherwise the summit was fairly quiet; I usually visit in the very early morning when some of the shyer Doi Inthanon resident specialities take the opportunity to forage before tourists arrive.<\/p>\n

While driving I spotted two large raptors but they were very shy and took off as soon as I slowed down, so I didn’t have an opportunity to positively identify them. But a nice surprise was waiting for me further down the mountain near the park headquarters, where I came across what seemed to be a juvenile male Black-throated Sunbird, or perhaps a male in eclipse.<\/p>\n

It was feeding on flowers in a shrub, but was moving around very quickly and usually sticking to the centre of the thick foliage, making it extremely challenging to get a clear photograph. But after persevering for about 90 minutes (and much to the relief of my waiting family!) I was able to come away with some nice shots.<\/p>\n

The flowers were also visited by a flock of Oriental White-eye, while Pied Bushchat, Asian Emerald Cuckoo and several species of bulbul were active in the trees.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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An Ashy-throated Warbler (Phylloscopus maculipennis) feeding on a flowering shrub on Doi Inthanon in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My trip to Thailand has been spent mostly with the family, which together with adverse rainy-season weather has left little time for photography. However I did get the family together for a quick day trip to Doi Inthanon, and the weather cooperated nicely. I had a quick look at Checkpoint 2, where a group of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2193101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ashy-throated-warbler-phylloscopus-maculipennis-john-a-wright-5496-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2431,5507,5515,5504,5527,5508,5510,5525,5512,5523,5514,2449,5506,5516,5511,5517,5518,5521,5505,5513,5509,5520,5522,5524,65,5526,5519],"class_list":["post-46826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-acinonyx-jubatus","tag-aethopyga-saturata-petersi","tag-alcippe-morrisonia","tag-ashy-throated-warbler","tag-brachypteryx-montana","tag-chestnut-crowned-warbler","tag-chestnut-tailed-minla","tag-ficedula-hyperythra","tag-flavescent-bulbul","tag-garrulax-melanostigma","tag-grey-cheeked-fulvetta","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-lack-throated-sunbird","tag-large-niltava","tag-minla-strigula","tag-niltava-grandis","tag-oriental-white-eye","tag-pericrocotus-brevirostris","tag-phylloscopus-maculipennis","tag-pycnonotus-flavescens","tag-seicercus-castaniceps","tag-short-billed-minivet","tag-silver-eared-laughingthrush","tag-snowy-browed-flycatcher","tag-thailand","tag-white-browed-shortwing","tag-zosterops-palpebrosus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}