Wat Pho - The Temple of the Reclining Buddha

I had nearly forgotten these images, how I don't know as this Buddha is the most impressive statue I have ever seen - The Reclining Buddha is 46 metres long x 15 metres high and gold plated!  

Just a few more......

Just found some better shots of Pond Heron together with one of my favourite birds of the trip Whiskered Treeswift unfortunately this shot does the bird no justice but it was the best of a poor batch.  Lastly a shot of a butterfly - the only one we got despite seeing dozens of different species they just never seemed to land!

Further Oddments

Here we have 1. Pond Heron sp (probably Chinese Pond Heron), 2. Little Cormorant, 3. Long-Tailed Shrike

Thailand oddments

Not many Thailand images left now - below we have Cinnamon Bittern, Eastern Reef Egret and Pallas's Gull

Burton Hills and the River Trent

I'm sorry but here are more snow scenes, we Brits are obsessed with the weather and this particular run of cold snowy weather has us all in a twitter.  Here at Normanby we only have 5 inches of snow but other parts of the country have up to 18 - still 5 is enough for us and our garden birds.  Our feeders have literally got birds queuing up to use them and tomorrow I'm going to try and photograph them so hopefully at least no more snow scenes for a day or two!  The images below were taken on a walk to the next village along from us, Burton Upon Stather and the views over the River Trent.

 

 

Wat Arun - The Temple of Dawn

Sitting here looking out into our garden and over the fields I find it strange to think that just 4 weeks ago today I was taking these pictures in 35 degrees+.  It hasn't risen above freezing here in Normanby today and we have had frequent heavy snow showers all morning - I remember thinking in Bangkok that I would do anything to be able to switch the heat and humidity off, now I would do anything to switch it on!

Not more snow scenes in Normanby Park

 

 

 

 

 

 Well Britain is still in the grip of the 'big freeze' and the media is loving it - it is currently snowing quite heavily in Normanby and the park is quite beautiful.  I went in to photograph the deer but they were hiding away in the pine plantation so more tree scapes I'm afraid.

Spoon-billed Sandpiper at dusk and dawn

Red-necked Stint

Even after nearly a year of using blogger I'm still learning and it is still driving me mad - after 100+ posts I have been unable to stop the automatic underlining of my text so decided today is the day to crack it.  In my efforts I noticed I was using an old edition of 'post editor' so having upgraded it  I can now move images around without losing the ability to 'click to enlarge' but as hard as I try I cannot get this text off the centering option and I just know that my next lot of text will be underlined!

Ashy Woodswallow and Scarlet-rumped Trogan

We found this group of Woodswallows sitting above our heads in Khao Yai NP whilst we were watching Giant Hornbills - unfortunately the Hornbills were just too far away even for digiscoping to get any decent images.  The Trogans were (female above, male below) in Khao Nor Chu Chi.

Back to Thailand - Barbets

 Yes back to Thailand  - still processing a few images so I hope people aren't too bored.

New Year in Normanby

Well the new year's weather has continued in the same vein as the outgoing 2009's - frosty and snowy - Happy New Year by the way.  Here's a few shots taken in the park this morning;