We arrive to another camp, a guest house with restaurant and some official buildings for Rangers etc. All camps in the national park are surrounded by electrical wire to keep the tigers, leopards and elephants out. But the electric wire does nothing to keep the monkey out from the camp.
The Guide told me to make sure I brought everything when we got out of the truck. I was thinking about thieves as here was quite a few people. But it was the Red-faced Macaque monkey. The Guide pointed and I looked around. We had just parked and there were 2 monkeys hanging from the roof looking for things to steal.
And the monkeys were not afraid to attack, but it was just to bending down to pick up a small stone and they ran away. Anyway, we were going to stay for 30 minutes but it was about 45 minutes before we got away. So I had time to take pictures and play with the monkeys.
View from the camp
View from the camp
View from the camp
Common Myna
Common Myna
View from the camp
Passing elephants when we leave the camp
I thought I heard an elephant's trumpet while playing with the monkeys
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eurasian Hoopoe
Driving through the Dhikala grassland
Spotted Deer on the Dhikala grassland
Spotted Deer on the Dhikala grassland
Hog Deer on the Dhikala grassland
Hog Deer on the Dhikala grassland
Hog Deer on the Dhikala grassland
A crocodile
A bridge to cross
A bridge to cross
Here we go!
Here we go again
Here we go again
Among others I have used Peter Ericsson's web page Birds of Thailand
These galleries contain 668 species of the Birds of Thailand and have been of a great help to identify some of the birds as the birds in Thailand and India are, well, many of them are the same.
I have had most help from my friend, the bird pal I met at Suan Rot Fai. Sending pictures of birds I have not been able to identify to him via Line. 3 minutes later he and he have managed to identify most of the birds I have had problems with. THANKS! Visit his web page m☥lever
for his beautiful pictures.
And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park.
We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room.
So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help.
Of course, all bird pictures available on my Indianbird checklist of bird I have seen by clicking HERE
Of course, I have seen many many more, but this list is for birds I managed to get on pictureSome of the pictures are OK, and some of them are straight up in a very poor quality