Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Stunned to get this news this morning: perhaps the first ever autumn record of Fairy Pitta in Thailand. Went for a relaxed stroll with my wife this afternoon and she kindly relocated it for me🤣 2271
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Some days you just need something to make you smile #Bangkok #Birding 1190
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Over the last week I spent a couple of mornings looking for waders in the rice paddies east of Bangkok. Highlights have included small parties of Pacific Golden Plovers, Grey-headed Lapwing and Oriental Pratincoles. 1130
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Passerine migration has started in #Bangkok during the last 10 days with Eastern Crowned Warbler, Forest Wagtail, Dark-sided and Asian Brown Flycatchers all reported in the city's parks. This morning I got in on the action with 3 Yellow-rumped Flycatchers in Suan Rotfai #birding 0272
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Hi Jon, Buntings do start to turn up in mid November so there is a chance but they are largely following the rice crops so patterns of agriculture and harvesting tend to dictate where birds will be found. 110
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026All teams should threaten to boycott all further games in the #worldcup until #FIFA reinstate the ban on #Balogun. Trump’s intervention and FIFA’s obedience is disgusting & pathetic. 140
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Even living in Thailand for 20 years I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a reading that high on my car’s thermometer 🥵 010
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds.bsky.social · 20/06/2026An excellent opportunity for 14 young birders to visit Lundy, boat and board included -- lundybirdobs.org.uk/news-and-sig... Additional funding for young people to get out to a bird obs, through the BTO here -- www.bto.org/our-work/you... 11712
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Incredible news!🎉We’ve been awarded a new £7.5 million grant from the Ecological Restoration Fund to support conservation across the African-Eurasian Flyway!🪽 The funding will allow us to scale up conservation efforts and support our incredible Partners. Learn more👉 www.birdlife.org/flyways-grantbirdlife.orgBirdLife awarded £7.5 million to protect and restore one of the world’s great flywaysA new grant from the Ecological Restoration Fund will support critical conservation efforts at key sites along the African-Eurasian Flyway. 04410
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Sadly, this is not an isolated observation. Like it or not we are living in an impoverished ‘New Normal’… 3194
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Another shot of this weekend’s Fairy Pitta at Suan Rotfai, Bangkok. 0130
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Local patch birding this morning: three migrant Pittas in one hour - Fairy, Western Hooded & Blue-winged. 2355
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026This glorious adult Ferruginous Flycatcher graced my local patch at the end of March. The first time I've encountered the species on spring passage. 1352
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Bluethroat from earlier this month, in the rice fields east of Bangkok (close to the main airport). 0100
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026This splendid looking Taiga Flycatcher from Bangkok’s Benjakiti Park over the Easter weekend. Probably well north of here now. 090
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Looks good for Wood Sandpiper. Feet project well beyond tail, underwing mottled (not dark enough for Green Sand). 130
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Birding around Bangkok is rudely good at the moment - I spent this afternoon watching two Spoon-billed Sandpipers, one in very advanced breeding plumage (the best looking I've ever seen). Yesterday I had a flock of 100+ Yelow-breasted Buntings, including quite a few breeding plumaged males #birding 0303
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net · 01/02/2026Our article, a birder’s guide to HPAI, was published today in @britishbirds.bsky.social - it’s open access this month. We explain how bird-flu infected seabirds in 2021/22 and the importance of citizen science to montoring future outbreaks in the wild. 🪶🧪 britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...britishbirds.co.ukBB eye: A birder’s guide to High Pathogenicity Avian InfluenzaHigh Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI, bird flu) virus infections have historically been most commonly associated with wild Eurasian waterfowl with... 05721
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 05/02/2026From Private Eye.🤣🤣🤣 072
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor. 4946451810
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Wild Beijing @wild-beijing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026There are few Baikal Teal (Sibirionetta formosa 花脸鸭 Huāliǎn yā) wintering at the Yellow River estuary in Shandong Province. Photo by "菜小hua". #birds #china #yellowriver 616130
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Explored this large patch of rough, wet scrub north of #Bangkok early today - stuffed full of Rubythroats, Amur Stonechats, Pallas’s Groppers, Lancies & Dusky Warblers. Point black views of Baikal Bush Warbler the highlight. 090
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026#ICE #Trump #USA #abuseofpower #immigration #therewillbeareckoning 000
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 11/01/2026One of at least 84 Yellow-breasted Buntings near Bangkok's main international airport this morning. 2292
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Thanks for this. Unfortunately it seems this excellent little camera is no longer manufactured and has not been replaced. The march of the smart phone makes P&S cameras an increasing rarity 😢 100
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Thanks James. As this was a family (not dedicated birding) trip Ai left my “nerd vest” at home. Perhaps I simply need to be less of a closet nerd. 110
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Just about to board a long haul flight and airline being difficult about the weight of my hand luggage which is mostly #birdinggear Makes me think I need a lightweight superzoom bridge camera to cut weight for such trips. What’s the best option that balances weight:performance these days? 341
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Holy Moly!!! Let’s hope that’s not all your birding luck for 2026 used up on Day 1. 000
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026My first bird of 2026: Prairie Warbler - a world tick no less!!! #FloridaKeys #birding 0100
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025This is literally going to be me today. 140
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Here’s my Christmas turkey for all my BlueSky followers. Merry Christmas! (Bornean Peacock Pheasant, July 2025) 0180
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/12/2025I’m not the biggest fan of boxing as a concept, but I do think we’re at the point where the only thing that’s going to prove to some people that they aren’t the main character with pro level skills at anything they want is to be punched in the face repeatedly. 1158893
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025In 1956 Rupert Murdoch first reported on the danger of Immigrants (Hungarians leaving the Soviet Union) in the Australian Sunday Times. 69 years later and he is still stealing your cookies and using the same lies. 7269104
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Kakapo, the world's only flightless parrot, has enjoyed its most productive breeding season since 1977: bit.lyBest breeding season for Kakapo since 1977New data from New Zealand’s conservation authorities show one of the world’s rarest parrots, Kakapo, has produced a record number of chicks in 2025-26 – its best season since 1977 and a major conservation success story. 316949
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I'm at a meeting in Bali this week - the local mudflat has provided some pre-breakfast entertainment with several Javan Plovers providing a welcome world tick! Grey-tailed Tattler, Greater Sand Plover and Great Crested Tern as supporting cast. 0101
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Cambodia, since ancient times, has been hydrologist, controlling and living by the water. Fish is the main source of protein for Cambodians. Slow climate is much more complex. As a result, fish yield goes down, and the tools to catch fish become more damaging to the environment. 112
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 05/12/2025Huge congratulations to Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org on winning the 2025 Right Livelihood Award! 💪 အရေးတော်ပုံ အောင်ရမည် ✋youtube.comGreta Thunberg delivers speech for Justice For Myanmar | 2025 Right Livelihood Award PresentationYouTube video by Right Livelihood 17419
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Absolutely my first thought too! I understand Steve’s response but Canon have had IS binos for many years & Kite are also a serious player so would have thought Swaro could crack it - mind you their melting body armour hardly inspires confidence in their R&D 😂 110
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I am not religious but even I think these guys putting themselves on the line for their faith is pretty heroic. 062
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Dylan Daunt @alpine-swift.bsky.social · 28/10/2025A 1st winter male SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT caught on North Ronaldsay!!! #RareBirdsUK #BirdingScotland #OrkneyBirding 1026828
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Thailand’s deputy finance minister, Vorapak Tanyawong, resigned over allegations that he and his wife were linked to a network of cybercrime hubs in Cambodia, part of a sprawling criminal enterprise that has stolen money from victims worldwide www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...nytimes.comThai Official Resigns Over Allegations of Links to Scam Network 033
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I read this and thought exactly the same, and then there’s all the pollutants coming off car tires and brake pads. Oh and what exactly is an “enforcement officer”?! I know I’ve not lived in the UK for >20 years but is this the new name for a copper? The UK is so weird these days. 000
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Pretty amazing for a national first to be found in a downtown city park, surrounded by high rises, in the middle of the day. Today those looking for it drew a blank but found a plethora of rarities & scarce migrants including Bkk’s first Common Cuckoo, male Sibe Thrush & Gray Nightjar! 140
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Y’day was contacted by a local birder covering Bkk’s parks. He’d papped a Thrush and wanted my advice on ID. This was something special - quick check of books & editing his pic brought me to the conclusion it was Thailand’s first Pale Thrush - subsequently confirmed by others. 1100
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Nice one, Andy! Best wishes from Thailand (where that bunting should be🤣) 110
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Who’d have thought…32 years after I sent “that” postcard to France. 110
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Good luck! Rainbow Pitta surely on the cards today 👍 020
Reposted by Dave Gandy (Bangkok)James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 06/10/2025And breathe. After 2.5h soggy dipping yet hoping, male Siberian thrush at Asta, Shetland. @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social #ukbirding 01586
Dave Gandy (Bangkok) @davegandybkk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Many EVs on the roads here in Bangkok, Thailand - quite a few Teslas but they are comprehensively outnumbered by BYD and various other Chinese brands and models I can hardly keep up with. 000
