Here is a place-by-place report, rather than a day-by-day account.
The first week was spent in and around Chiang Mai, and my Dad and I birded Mae Hia Agricultural College, Phuping Palace and around the Night Safari area (by day!).
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I couldn't resist taking a snap of this notice on the Malaysian-Thai border - worth the price of a train ticket alone. If you're thinking of visiting Thailand, make sure you click on this pic so you can read this first! Fortunately I'd just had a haircut!
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Our first evening in Chiang Mai we took a drive west to Samoeng to take in a spectacular sunset.
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These seed pods were set on fire by the setting sun.
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A view over one of the lakes at Mae Hia Agricultural College.
Mae Hia is a short way south-west of the city of Chiang Mai. Details of how to find it and what to expect there are on Nick Upton's excellent website, Thaibirding.
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Red-whiskered Bulbul is one of three common bulbul species seen in open areas.
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White-vented Mynas are another commonplace species.
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Ashy Woodswallows can be seen in almost any open area, and their distinctive nasal calls quickly become a familiar sound. Compared to the birds I saw here in January, these were duller below, lacking obvious vermiculations on the vent, so were presumably in more worn plumage.
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There were more Paddyfield Pipits around than in January, but there was less fallow land, giving fewer opportunities to observe pipits on the ground.
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One or two Richard's about too, but they were wary and difficult to approach.
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Most of my views were in flight like this! I did notice that, when flushed, Paddyfield would tend to keep quite low and fly only a short distance, whereas Richard's more often tended to fly up to a greater height and to fly further before settling, rather like the difference between Common and Pintail Snipes. Call, size and structure were the easiest ways to tell them apart.
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Birds in general were wary at Mae Hia, and I heard shooting in the area, suggesting that there may be some hunting going on. I caught this Indochinese Bushlark slinking quail-like into the longer grass.
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Several Dusky Warblers fed in the vegetated lake fringes, chacking nervously at my approach.
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Burmese Shrikes, including one singing bird, seemed more widespread than Long-tailed.
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Siberian Stonechats were commoner than Pied Bushchats during these visits.
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We watched this Common Kingfisher hunting successfully for freshwater shrimps.
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A pair of Black-collared Starlings displaying to one another. I couldn't decide whether the intentions were amorous or aggressive!
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A pair of Coppersmith Barbets allowed close approach on some overhead wires.
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Plain-backed Sparrows are always good to see, being quite a scarce and localized species in Malaysia.
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Red-rumped/Striated Swallows have been a puzzle to me ever since I realized that Red-rumped can show a dark nape and no paler nuchal collar(see here). Anyway, there were plenty at Mae Hia, well-streaked on the underbody and underwing coverts, and showing dark thigh-patches, which Robson (2000 edition) mentions as being a diagnostic feature of the vernayi race of Striated.
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Look Ma, no head! No #43 in my series of photos you probably shouldn't make a drawing from!
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A pair of Wire-tailed Swallows were in exactly the same spot that I saw them in January, but they were so, so shy!
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Not at Mae Hia! But I couldn't resist including this one of one of the white tigers at the Night Safari, where, incidentally, I saw my only Yellow-streaked Warbler of the trip.
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