Saturday, January 9, 2010

Dec - 2009

Having been away much of Nov, construction of the adjoining insect feeding room was delayed till Dec. I decided to extend it all the way to join up with the bird house - making it 12m x 11m x 4m.

The builder used concrete pipes to make up the columns - a clever approach I think.















Having seen the building of the main bird house, putting up these walls was a piece of cake.















Steel structure supporting the roof being erected.
















































And finally the steel roof over it.















Part of it would be my workshop cum store.















Around the farm, catches from the deep pond never seem to run out! This is only 1/3 being dried in the sun.



















But this was the catch that make me envy - it's claws was 30cm long and I have yet to taste one!















My first visitors are my blog reader Nana and husband from Bangkok; dropping by during their tour of bird farming areas in the south. My brother & good friends were around too.



















The next two visitors were from Singapore, again my blog readers. They will be bird nest farmers too in near future.















I took them to tour around Petchaburi & Samut Songkhram, just to sample a bit of what Thailand has to offer. Of course not to miss out the famous bird nest temple of Wat Chum Lon at Samut Sakon.

Near Khao Yoi (between Samut Songkhram & Petchaburi) is a Laos Cultural Heritage Center with a number of beautiful Laotian village houses.



















A scenic forest park near Cha-Am.











A short walk from the bird nest temple of Wat Ban Laem is the "railway market" at Mae Klong Station.















Vendors placed their wares right to the edge of the railway line!



















Albert was pleasantly surprised, "I've seen this on TV before, I don't know it is right here!"




















As for me, I saw the first nest formed after returning from the road tour to northern Thailand during the Christmas/New Year holidays. So what is better than that to wrap up 2009 and kicking off with 2010?

8 comments:

Unknown said...

It's me ....Vuthmail...How your swiftlet going on.

So do u mind to take me look around and open my new experience.

Vuthmail-Thailand 11.01.2010

Walet.twins said...

Sure, you are welcome.

Tweeter said...
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Tweeter said...

Congratulations on your first nest.
That's quick, isn't it, first nest after three months.

You built your BH on the water with good reason I supposed, now you built your work shop attached to it. Isn't the first purpose of having it on the water now diluted?

Walet.twins said...

Yes, I gave it much thought before making the compromise.

Anti Swiftlet House said...

A swiftlet farmer at MIDWAY CRESCENT, SAMARAHAN installed a speaker in a tube and broadcast the bird sound directly to our residential area.

If you know this owner, I would appreciate to tell him that we are suffering noise pollution. Please stop the bird sound broadcasting to our residential area.

Walet.twins said...

I am sorry to hear about that and unable to help in this instance. Unfortunately there are always irresponsible people around - perhaps your local community can take collective action to improve the situation.

Walet.twins said...

I am truly empathize with those facing the same situation as "Anti-Swiftlet House".

I can only appeal to those who know bird house owners to be considerate & moderate their external sound level.