our little hut at Mae Krang Luang….simple but acceptable…

with a lovely stream next to our hut….

First bird in the garden was the lovely Crested bulbul

and a common tailorbird

we headed to Mr Deang’s cafe for breakfast, a noted place for birders with lots of bird pictures everywhere….and the rain started

a female dark throated sunbird was also having her breakfast

the much prettier male dark throated sunbird also made an appearance in the gloom and rain

this lovely grey cheeked fulvetta popped up…

grey cheeked fulvetta with large white eye ring, distinguishing it from the mountain fulvetta

this was the weather we had…wet and misty….this is actually a colour photograph!

the drab female green tailed sunbird was first to show

it teased us for a while…

and eventually the gorgeous male green tailed sunbird appeared…the tail actually looks more blue than green….

spectacularly coloured green tailed sunbird

another lifer…the white browed shortwing…male

white browed shortwing…female

silver eared laughing thrush

chestnut tailed minla..one of the most common birds we saw in Doi Inthanon…it was everywhere

another view of chestnut tailed minla 

as the rain abated a bit. we wandered over the road to the angka nature trail into the moss forest….

charming moss forest

male snowy browed flycatcher

female snowy browed FC

juvenile snowy browed FC

ashy throated warbler

ashy throated warbler

a yellow bellied fairy flycatcher

the yellow bellied fairy FC was previously known as the yellow bellied fantail for obvious reasons

in the gloomy misty morning light, this was the best shot I could manage of the spectacled barwing…

spectacled barwing singing away

a rather drab flavescent bulbul

and in the dull light I just managed this shot of the pretty yellow cheeked tit

the wonderfully coloured mountain tailor bird

mountain tailor bird

juvenile Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher

back in the resort for an afternoon’s rest, we wondered off to the surrounding padi fields…

where some sooty headed bulbuls were playing

a rare glimpse of sunshine through the gloom

scaly breasted munia

a common flameback appeared far away

common flameback woodpecker

from a gazillion miles away, we spotted this yellow, black, white and chestnut bird…apologies for poor quality of picture

a beautiful black headed woodpecker..one of many lifers on this trip

another black headed WP

meanwhile back at the nesting hole there was no activity…

until one of our group spotted these falconets perched a few hundred metres away…

it was the collared falconet aka the red thighed falconet…understandably glaring at us all gathered around their home…

one of the tiniest raptors….it is a pretty little thing!

Male scarlet minivet

frontal view

the much yellower female scarlet minivet

our last port of call on our final morning was to seek the elusive slaty backed forktail which we had heard in our resort but not seen…we went to a distant waterfall…and indeed we got fair sightings here but alas I couldn’t take a photo of the shy bird…

a blue winged leafbird entertained us

and a beautiful black drongo bade us farewell from Doi Inthanon