Birding in South Thailand

Zosia spent a lot of time trying to find a birding guide in Phuket before we came. She found Games who along with Ian Dugdale owns South Thailand Birding. She arranged for Games to take us out for two days at a reasonable price. She came at our arranged time of 5:45 a.m. and we were off to our first stop. It actually took an hour and half to get to this rice paddy field where there were so many interesting birds that we didn't move for an hour. We started walking down the road and turned into a field where we were thrilled with seeing a Pigmy Hawk Owl eight feet off the road. For us this was so exciting.

We went through fields and saw many new and exciting birds. Games had a great scope so we could see fine details of the birds we don't usually see.

 Games is a very interesting woman who was born near Cambodia and grew up in a strict Buddhist community.  She talked about the conditions and expectations of growing up in such a culture.