We left Hua Hin this morning, and drove up to Bankok airport. On our way we noted two new trip species, Black-shouldered Kite and Brahmini Kite. We flew down to Phuket, and drove from the airport to Krabi. Near the airport we got good views of the first Jungle Myna of the trip. Near Krabi we found taxi boats that drove us out to Railay Beach. The sceneries on the boatride were absolutely fantastic. The so-called karst landscape around Krabi is limestone formed by the exposure of acidic precipitation through thousands of years. We checked into some very nice bungalows near Railay beach, and went for drinks at the beach in the afternoon. Todays sedate birding did actually produce two new trip species: a surprising Oriental Hobby and the first positively identified House Swift. The latter were apparently rather common here.
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