It seems like I cant go for a walk these days without spotting a Forest Crested Lizard (Calotes emma) or two, or three..or a hundred! They're often pretty relaxed and you can usually get quite close to them before they make a run for it. Sometimes if it's a particularly confident one they'll puff out …
Thailand is home to a species of Lizard that you see everywhere and one that I have grown to love over the years living here. They are the Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor) and as the name suggests you'll often spot them in gardens. They love to drape themselves over bushes, cling to the sides of …
You know how you can walk past something a thousand times without ever really noticing it, but then once you've seen it once you start to see it everywhere? Well for me that thing is Tiger Beetles. Ever since I first spotted some by a river earlier this month I've been seeing them everywhere! They're …
If this is the first you've heard of Dougie, make sure to check out these links for the full story Dougie The Owl (Part 1) and Dougie the Owl (Part 2) ) So, Dougie was now eating well and producing some impressive pellets but he still had a long way to go before we could release …
So, now we had an owl living with us, recovering it's strength and getting ready for the day we’d release him back into the wild. You can read how we ended up with an owl here Dougie The Owl (Part 1) I hit the books and the internet hard trying to learn as much about Barn …
My students often spot me walking around the school campus and through the copses behind my office looking for wildlife. They often observe me with specualtive looks from their air-conditioned rooms, not understanding my want to be outside in 35 degree heat! This being said, they are paying attention to my actions and I try to …
Its been a while since my post about caterpillars and there have been many posts since then and my blog has changed and evolved. It seems only fitting that now I do the same for my post about caterpillars and show them in their metamorphosed forms as the winged beauties they really are. This post …
Sometimes there's nothing better than just walking along the banks of a small stream and watching the dragonflies,damselflies flutter along above it. On this particular occasion whilst walking along one of the streams in Sri Phang-nga National Park i was lucky enough to see the aptly named stream glory damselfly. I was slowly walking along, when suddenly …
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Thailand's biodiversity is absolutely huge which is one of the reasons it is so satisfying to look for wildlife here because you're always finding something you've never seen before. To give you an idea of just how big Thailand's biodiversity is, I've put some figures below that I took from the Convention on Biological Diversity's …
Saw these two grasshoppers a while back and loved their cool colouration and apparently they have a pretty cool name too. They're called the Spot Monkey Grasshopper ( Erianthus serratus) In the photos above the more colourful grasshopper is the male and the brown one is the female.
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