Yesterday, our penultimate day in Thailand, I spent a day birding at some salt pans 2 hours SW of Bangkok. The area is renowned for waders and I wasn't let down - Red-necked Stints, Long-toed Stints, 1 Temmincks Stint, 4 Red-Necked Phalaropes, 1 Broad-billed Sandpiper, Pacific Golden, Greater & Lesser Sand Plovers, Pintail Snipe and Spotted Redshanks. Marsh & Wood Sandpiper in abundance. The icing on the cake was 20 Nordmann's Greenshank, a Painted Snipe and icing on the icing a single Spoon-billed Sandpiper. A pretty good day in the office and worth the 33 degree heat and glare! Hope some of these are rare enough for you Rich!
Record shot of the Spoon Billed Sand and closer shots of Marsh and Wood Sand. Will Angle Bay ever be the same again?
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