Neung Bird Hide, Kaeng Krachan, Thailand - 27 Species & 4 Lifers!

[@thailandwild4897]

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[@BBM56]

Brings back great memories ... as I was there in February this year....

[@thailandwild4897]

@@BBM56 Ah… great stuff. I was at Bird Hide back in January of this year. Watch out for some new uploads coming soon from Rocky Pool - my own hide at my conservation project in Kanchanaburi.

[@DxShutter]

สวยงามครับ คิดถึงแก่งกระจาน

[@thailandwild4897]

Thanks Khun Tong..... I have only been to Kaeng Krachan twice in the last 6 months.... are you mainly filming at Phu Kiow now?

[@DxShutter]

@@thailandwild4897 ที่ภูเขียวฝนเริ่มหมดแล้ว สามารถเข้าไปถ่ายได้นะครับ แมวดาวยังอยุ่ มีคนถ่ายได้ตอนลงกินน้ำที่บ่อนกด้วย

[@thailandwild4897]

Wow.... amazing. I will try to go there during this dry season.

[@birddayparties]

Love the white one 😀

[@thailandwild4897]

Ummm....

[@pennhillman]

Fantastic birds, lucky you, and great background information. Ta..

[@thailandwild4897]

Thank you so much for your comment. It looks like you are also filming in Thailand.... right?

[@pennhillman]

@@thailandwild4897 your right I have tried to record my bird sightings in thailand on my holidays, but I'm not good as you and some other birders I watch on KZbin. I have been to kaeng Krachan but had no time to look at the private bird hides, next time they will be top of my list.. All the best for your future birding.

[@thailandwild4897]

Thanks very much.... I hope to get down to Nuy hide just after New Year. I hear that he gets some very interesting stuff there.

[@pennhillman]

@@thailandwild4897 that's great, I look forward to seeing your video soon...

[@Ninja-iw5zp]

The Slaty-legged crake & the Orange-headed thrush are so gorgeous, thanks u, well done !

[@thailandwild4897]

I absolutely agree with you about that. And it was even more special that they came late in the day after I had been sitting in the hide since the morning.... so they were a great boost of orange-energy.

[@thailandwild4897]

Thank you so much for visiting Thailand Wild. If you enjoyed the content, please subscribe to the channel and hit the bell icon to receive notifications of future videos. It's always great to get some feedback too, so please leave a comment and I will certainly get back to you, and perhaps give us a thumbs up while you are here. Most of the videos on the channel feature numerous species, and where this is the case, there will be a time-stamped list of species in the description to help you navigate the clip as well as links to an external site with additional information on the species in Thailand.

[@hamsambly]

I always enjoy these hides, it's so fun to just sit for hours observing all the different species coming through.

[@thailandwild4897]

Yes, I quite agree. I love sitting in hides. I could sit from dawn to dusk..... for many days...... in fact, I have! Can't wait to start to set up my own wildlife hides in the Thong Pha Phum area on the West of Thailand.

[@RichardCookphotography]

Great video. Hope to be there in the summer. Well done👍👍

[@thailandwild4897]

Thank you very much Richard. Please be advised that the Northern summer (July to September) is not a good place for the bride hides. It will be raining a lot, so the birds don't need to come to the bird hides and water pools. On the other hand, it is a good time for reptiles and amphibians in the forest.

[@RichardCookphotography]

@@thailandwild4897 thanks so much for the response. Sorry I meant I will be at KK national park itself may not do the hides although I had a great time at the lovely old lady's place before just for a bit of garden bird photography so depending on weather may go back there. I will be there at the beginning of August I believe they parts of the park will be closed. Do you know if that is the case? Thank you

[@thailandwild4897]

Ah, that's interesting.... I saw the 'lovely old lady's' hide featured on the KZbin clip about the KK bird hides, but it is one of the ones that I haven't actually been to yet. Did you get the name of the place, by any chance? I never hear the other bird photographers talk about that place. Last year the lower section of the park stayed open all year. That is, from the entrance up to Ban Krang campsite and the 3 stream crossings beyond, which is a great area for birding and wildlife watching in general, and it is where I do nearly all my filming in the park. Beyond that is the steep road up to Phanoen Tung, which is out of bounds for the rainy season..... I guess around July to October. KK tends to change its position on opening or not opening etc. quite often, so if I hear anything different, I'll let you know.

[@RichardCookphotography]

@@thailandwild4897 Hi. The hide is called Baan song nok and I believe the lady is called Auntie Aek. I loved being there specifically taking pictures in her garden while enjoying a beer. Very nice. She had a hide at the back of her property which gets some good birds. Unfortunately I can only go in August but have been to KK before in August and did really well with Pittas and broadbills. Thinking about getting a guide this year. I'll only have 2 days. By the way I make a KZbin channel about photographing birds here in Okinawa👍😀🇯🇵🇬🇧

[@thailandwild4897]

Ah yes.... that's the name - I had forgotten. Do you know Baan Maka Nature Lodge? It's the resort where a lot of the wildlife enthusiasts stay if they are not camping in the park. They also get some good bird life in the grounds of the resort, as well as other interesting stuff..... vipers and the occasional retic and even king cobra. They are only about 15 minutes from the park, and have bird guides as well as the latest info on what has been seen at the hides or in the park etc.

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Well done Daryll Tons of nice birds! I liked the links you shared for more information about each species. I felt almost like I was sitting in the blind with you! What fun!

[@thailandwild4897]

Thanks Judy..... I like to narrate it in a way that draws viewers into the experience as though it were happening now. The links take a lot of work, but the website was constructed by a good friend of mine, and he takes bookings through that website for tourists and wildlife tours in Thailand, so it can't harm to help promote it for him.

[@thailandwild4897]

Incidentally Judy, what is your thought on a 40-minute video? I could have made five videos of about 8 minutes each, featuring similar species, but other guys are doing that already. Looking at my other very long videos, I get the impression that although very few people finish them, overall, I get more view time, than several shorter ones.

[@rosiels4803]

Very nice 🔥🔥🔥

[@phasusanamornthepadul7031]

Fantastic assortment of birds, mr sweetland, truly feathered jewels! How common are parrots/ hanging parakeets in the KK area I wonder?

[@thailandwild4897]

Thank you so much for your comment. I have not seen them there, but I feel sure that blossom-headed and red-breasted parakeets, and vernal hanging parrots should be there. I often get the hanging parrots on my land in Thong Pha Phum - eating my rambutans!!!

[@thailandwild4897]

I recommend you to check this website for species distribution www.thainationalparks.com/

[@phasusanamornthepadul7031]

@@thailandwild4897 thanks for your reply, as irksome as it seems, mr sweetland, I shall be very pleased personally to find out that by agricultural produce is being consumed by our friends of the avian variety, At least me and my produce shall have a hand in enriching and sustaining the local ecosystem, shame a lot of farmers don’t think that way, wouldn’t the world be a much more tolerable place for our friends of other species if that line of thinking was mainstream. I live in suburban BKK and would very much like to see hanging parrots here, that’s what I wish for constantly, fantastic birds, not discounting the birds that exist in my neck of the woods though, bulbuls, koels, sunbirds, kingfishers, barbets,drongos, fantails, swamp hens, bitterns, mynas and even blue magpies! Not to bad for suburbia I shall assume

[@thailandwild4897]

Yes, I agree. I would much rather have the birds than the fruit. Actually, I have planted hundreds of trees there especially for birds and other animals to eat.

[@Birding-with-Brian]

nice one Daryll as a maker of videos here too I was so impressed I watched the entire video ..start to finish..

[@thailandwild4897]

Wow.... thanks for that. I shot 90 minutes in total, and of course had to cut that down to something a bit more manageable. I was tempted to do lots of short videos of individual species or groups of species, but I saw that yourself and others were doing it well that way, so decided to throw it all out as a single clip. Mind you, the processing was a nightmare. I rendered and exported maybe 7 or 8 times for up to 10 hours, only for it to fail over and over again. It turned out that it was getting stuck on one section where I had applied an effect to sharpen the image, and my processor couldn't deal with it. In the end I had to lower the export settings, but this file was still 24GB in size!!! Did you agree with the IDs that I gave?

[@Birding-with-Brian]

@@thailandwild4897 yes mate all correct to me

[@Birding-with-Brian]

not 100% sure on the chinese blue

[@thailandwild4897]

Yes... I hear that. I asked a couple of people about it, and it would seem that it is virtually impossible for anyone to say for sure, so the best thing for me is to just say that I'm not sure. The encounter with the two crake species was just awesome for me..... I won't forget that in a hurry.

[@alexandersmith9499]

Excellent job!

[@thailandwild4897]

Thanks Alexander.... have you been there recently?

[@gijsvermeulen5248]

Hello Darryl,a very impressing movie with many birds in it and a very good image quality. I watched the first 25 minutes and will do the rest later.What equipment do you use? Greetings Gijs

[@thailandwild4897]

Hello Gijs.... nice to hear from you and thank you for your kind comment. I use the Sony a1 together with the Sony 200-600mm zoom lens. I find this combination perfect for wildlife. For this clip I was sitting in a hide, so I decided to use the highest quality format of 8K at 25fps. I use a very heavy and strong oil-head tripod that I still have from my old broadcast camera days. The advantage of using 8K is that I export at 4K, so if I want to, I can double the size of the image in editing without losing any quality, as I did near the beginning of the clip with the black-naped monarch. This essentially means that my zoom lens is equivalent to 200-1,200mm. I love this camera and it is so much smaller and lighter than my old TV camera. In addition, if I have moving subjects and enough light, I could film in 4K at 100fps which means that I could slow the film down 4X to see a bit of slow motion. How did you achieve the slow motion on your new clip?

[@gijsvermeulen5248]

@@thailandwild4897 Hello Darryl,you have a very good -and expensive - camera and together with the 200-600 it stands for excellent image quality and you can see that very well!!! The 8k exporting it to 4k brings it to my canonsx60hs range of 1300mm and of course with a better image quality.At some point i will make a switch to more professional equipment but for now i will do it with this bridge camera.I use MAGIX Video Deluxe 2016 as editing software and can change the speed of the images and sometimes it looks like a smooth slow motion and depends on the speed of the objects.Thanks for the question and will follow you in the future!! Greetings Gijs

[@nicolabrownlee5493]

Lovely video.

[@thailandwild4897]

Thank you so much, Nicola.

[@FriedrichEsser]

Great thank you for sharing. To the Kalij Pheasants the second male with the grey legs is the son of the both which you show at first he is born in 2019 I saw him as a chick and ..... Another son born 2020 must be died this spring he looked very sick as I saw him last time. The other group which you show with the three females must be onther group or are two young females chicks from this year. Young Kalij Pheasants are in the first year very scary and stay longer in the jungle as the older ones.I am missing the Grey Peacock Pheasants there.

[@thailandwild4897]

Oh… very interesting. Thank you for the information.

[@vdaphotos]

hello! nice video!! do you recommend staying whole day?

[@thailandwild4897]

I notice that a lot of other bird watchers only go for the morning or the afternoon, but I always stay from dawn to dusk. Many different kinds of birds come at different time of the day, and especially in the last hour of light a number of different species come to bathe that I don't see earlier in the day. Even when it is almost dark some different birds come. Also, I am not really a specialist bird watcher, I am also filming the mammals and hoping that maybe one of the small cats will come to drink (it sometimes happens), or perhaps even a snake will come through. In my opinion, if you wanted to take a break, the best thing would be to go to the hide from early morning until about 11am then go for lunch and come back at about 2pm. The middle part of the day is normally the quietest time, and you don't need to pay again to come back on the same day.

[@vdaphotos]

@@thailandwild4897 I see thank you! hopefully i get to see some rare mammals as well! I was not able to get a guide for kaeng krachan but there is an option to drop me off a location and pick me up later in the day. is there a spot where i can wait for a chance to see bears/elephants/leopards?

[@thailandwild4897]

Ah yes.... I see that the guides are very busy at the moment. I have thought of doing it myself.... perhaps next year. I can probably give you a few pointers, but it would be better in a Message.... could I ask you to follow me on my Thailand Wild Facebook page and send me a message there..... facebook.com/das1961

[@erik-janbarten295]

Very great. Question: which one of the hides are the best: Dab toon hide or Nueng bird hide? For Blue Pitta en Ferruginous Patridge.

[@thailandwild4897]

Hello Erik.... I actually haven't been to Dab Toon's hide, but it is very close to where Neung Hide used to be. The last time I went, Neung Hide had been closed down. This is something that happens quite often as the hides are on the edge of the National Park. This year a new hide set up very near the old Neung Hide area, and it is called Bird Hide... I have a clip from there on my channel. Both Dab Toon and Bird Hide should get all three of the partridge species - ferruginous, bar-backed and green-legged.... and also Grey Peacock-Pheasant, but I have only seen Blue Pitta at Nuy Hide which is in a different area.

[@erik-janbarten295]

Thanks for the information!

[@thailandwild4897]

You are welcome. Things do tend to change from time to time though. If you are in the Kaeng Krachan area, Baan Maka Nature Lodge often have the most up to date information on the bird hides and on which species have been seen.

[@mariorodriguez-mg7kk]

where in the park is this hide located?

[@thailandwild4897]

Unfortunately, this hide is no longer in operation, but there is a new hide just a few metres away called Bird Hide. It is not inside Kaeng Krachan NP but is close to a village on the outside of the park about 10-15 minutes' drive from Baanmaka Nature Lodge. The nature lodge have the contact details.

[@RangKlos]

All #13 are Racket-tailed treepies. I really wish you get the pheasant chicks this year : D

[@thailandwild4897]

Yes... actually I think someone got a partridge with chicks a few days ago, and then another photographer was at Lung Sin hide and saw a large, reticulated python soaking in the water pool there!!! That would be my dream.

[@thailandwild4897]

Oh... and thank you very much for pointing that out. I had the time-stamp for those shots on both the racket-tailed treepies and the black drongo..... Of course the black drongo only comes in at 12:13. Many thanks for letting me know.

[@willy550428]

Awesome video of Kaeng Krachan birds. Do you have Neung Bird Hide contact number?

[@thailandwild4897]

Thank you, Willy. Yes, I have Mr Neung's phone number - 0810120259, but I'm not sure if he can speak English. Also, be aware that the hides are sometimes closed. There are a number of hides in that area run by different people, you can also see my clips from Nuy's Hide and Lung Sin's Hide. If you are in the Kaeng Krachan area you can get all the latest information and contact details from Baanmaka Nature Lodge.

[@willy550428]

@@thailandwild4897 Thank you so much for the info. I went to Nuy's hide in 2019. Sadly, I couldn't visit Kaeng Krachan again as I went to Northern Thailand early January 2023. Hope to go there one fine day.

[@thailandwild4897]

I have just started to visit these hides in the last two years or so, I can't believe that I didn't go before! I hope you are able to get back to the Kaeng Krachan area soon - it really is a wonderful place. Be advised that I am currently setting up water pools and hides on my land in Kanchanaburi. I plan to also have night viewing for civets and other nocturnal mammals. I've had camera traps at two locations for the last two weeks and will go to collect them soon...... I can't wait to see what has been coming to the pools.

[@DUHOVED_FOR_RELAX]

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[@thailandwild4897]

Thank you.