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Dao Birding Trip Report pt.2 |
The
other 2 days we were birding near Malee’s: the monastery,
the checkpoint and we did, parts of, the Nature, Gulley and Jungle
Trail. We did not have a car so we did everything by foot. As us had been told before the birding in november was ‘rather slow’. We did see only a part of all the species mentioned in several tripreports on the net. For example: no Pitta’s (a French couple heard Rusty-naped), no Broadbills and Laughing-Thrushes only heard ( we did not use a tape to attract birds). But as we are not only interested in ticking as much species as possible, but enjoy all facets of nature, we had a very good time. Despite the rain on the first morning the weather was nice: sunny with some clouds and early-morning fog, and warm. Birdactivity ended rapidly after about 11.00 a.m and started again but at a much lower level only about one hour before sunset. We can imagazine that in early spring (February) the birds are indeed more active and a little bit easier to find. |
