Leam Pak Bia 13 th and 14th October 2012

This weekend Eunice and I went down to Leam Pak Bia again. The weather seemed really hot and the mosquitoes were awful, taking great lumps out of Neil.  Despite this we managed some decent birding.  On Saturday morning the Abandoned Buildings Neil managed to turn up 2 Ruff and a
Sanderling but despite a sustained sea watch of a couple of hours, the sea remained very quiet.  In the afternoon we went to Pak Thule and there were huge numbers of Curlew, Whimbrel and Great Knot.  Neil also photographed this Little Stint.

 

In the evening we went to watch the roost at The King's Project.  Black Drongo numbers had started to build but the Mynas were taking a different route in the mangroves.  We did have a brief view of a male Painted Snipe shoot from the reed bads to the scrape.

 

On today (Sunday) I had my first Dusky Warbler of the winter before we looked at the Abandoned Buildings once more and came across this immature Rosy Starling beside the rubbish tip.

  

Later in the day and back up the coast, at Pak Thule, we came across a single Heuglin's Gull, about 15 Crested Terns, a couple of Caspian Terns and a smattering of Gull-billed Terns as well as a Terek Sandpiper.