Curlews!

Got out and took the surfski kayak down the river and into the Gulf of Thailand yesterday and managed to bump into these Curlews.

What an interesting bird.. Big too! As big as a herring gull.

Going to go back today with the big lens and snap some more photos while there still here.

Hope you guys (and dani) are well and that the season has been good for you.

More later,

Best,

Todd Duncan Tennyson
 
Good morning, Todd~


Good for you! A wonderful bird to be sure. No Long-billed Curlews here along the Atlantic Tidewater, but I have thoroughly enjoyed the few have seen over the years - from Saskatchewan and points west.


I have a Whimbrel - its little cousin - in the shop waiting for paint for a long time now. Maybe you'll inspire me to get the brushes out.


All the best,


SJS

 
Good to hear from you Todd!

Is there any hunting to be had in Thailand???
 
Carl,

The hunting here is for fish. Lots of spearfishing.

I know that there is some subsistance hunting that the hill tribes do for pigs and fowl and squirrel type critters.

Many of these folks are Buddhists, so they have a different angle on hunting... They'll do it, but not like we do. Only for subsistence, and if you have the money for a loaf of bread and kill a Junglefowl just for the hunt of it, it wouldn't fly. It seems kind of an incomplete arguement, I know, but that is the way they see it. The folks I've been freinds with here know I am a hunter and seem interested in the stories I tell them, so they don't have a negative opinion of hunter types (especially when you eat the birds you bag) They just are wired differently than we are.

People have rifles and revolvers and shotguns, especailly in the back country and on farms. I have never seen a fish and game regulation of any kind here.

You are free in many ways here that you may not be elsewhere.

Even the roadways and the rules are different. They have signs that say if you are drunk driving, slow down. It is a totally different world.
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Yes, the way his set up works is: He has those 2 long poles off the bow with a scoop net in between them.. He drives his boat at a crawl along and in essesnse acts like a basking shark. He motors along until he's had enough and then purses the net and hauls it in.
 
That has gotta be the longest long tailed motor I have ever seen.

Nice pictures!
 
The longtail is where it's at over here.
they are really loud with their mufflers out of the water.

many use a diesel to get out on the gulf.
I like to paddle out there in my surfski. It's great

It's kind of like living right next to a wildlife refuge.
 
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