Thailand 2017: Enforced Rest

Sunday March 5

It started last night, the stomach cramps. When I thought they'd quietened down, no details here, I went to bed. The alarm went off at 5.50 and so did I, having to scramble down the double bed to get off - that damned concrete 18 inch wide strip down the side. What happened next will remain unwritten. It took Pam, two maids and Pen to sort everything and I slept in Pam's bed until 10.

The trio had gone to the rice paddies across the road to add yet more ticks to the list. Feeling somewhat enervated, I went for toast and coffee at 11. We then sat in reasonably comfortable chairs under an awning, from which we could survey the pond and the wild area beyond. Germain's Swifts in constant attendance. A Brown Shrike was the star bird.

The Bees returned mid afternoon, it was too hot to continue birding. They too sat out, on their balcony, to rest, bird and take photographs.

I used the enforced free time to bring the last few days of my Blog up to date and to add photographs.

Here are a few photos which I took to-day, of the commoner birds,.