Tiger at Baan Krang

Just heard from KK that tourists saw and photographed a tiger at Baan Krang (Kaeng Krachan) yesterday!!!! Hope its true.

I'm off to Kaeng Kr.....

Seen and photographed...
I can't even think how I would react when it would ever happen to me.

Don't know after such news if I should even mention that I had my first cat sighting of the year yesterday. A split-second Leopard Cat sighting in KY, sadly without photographic evidence.
Recently installed an hd-video 'dashboard camera' (590baht) in the car. But the quality at night is very poor and I had to look at the footage several times before I discovered an unidentifiable little blob between all noise/ jpg-like artifacts in the left corner that disappears into the undergrowth next to the road, haha.

I have just, this last week, put one in my car as well for those NP drives. Mine is very wide angle - not exactly what I was hoping for. I think even an elephant is going to look like a small blob on mine

I had an insect trip there last week Les. Tough to find stuff just yet. I kept on the streams - about 7 or 8 butterfly species are very prominent in the stream crossings, no mass puddlings yet though. Lots of spiders apparent - my theory (based on NO science whatsoever ;+)) is that as there are less bugs around they have to become more active and hence visible. Surprisingly I saw a completely new plant hopper species to me. No photo though, just a crappy OOF video clip. Lots of large ant species about as well and very easy to photograph - nearly every fallen log was being used by them for stream crossings.

This was diurnals, I did not stay the night.

Do let me know if you find anything nice.

trekker wrote:

I have just, this last week, put one in my car as well for those NP drives. Mine is very wide angle - not exactly what I was hoping for. I think even an elephant is going to look like a small blob on mine

Well, my first reason to put a dash-cam in the car was simply to have some kind of proof of what happened if one day a car crashes into my car, or have the possibility to simply point at it when a corrupt police officer is trying to get something from me, haha. Hope I will never need it for these purposes, and am definitely not scared of all this to happen, but since these cams are so cheap I thought what the heck, just put it in.
Only after that, I thought about the possible usefulness during game drives in the parks.
And now I'm starting to get interested in looking into something that has a bit higher quality, and perhaps put some bright additional lights on the car...

I don't know if the tiger got you Les, but we got the tiger!

We captured a double glimpse of one near one of our camera trap sets. Unfortunately the big cams have been down due to technical difficulties and programming issues (I sound like the BBC in the 70s) but we did get some low res B&W night video of it loping past!!

Good news! Good work!
What's the estimated number of tigers (and leopards) in KK? Does anyone have an idea?

Just got back from Huai Kha Khaeng.
No big cats sighted, but one Leopard Cat in daytime (10:25AM) on the Khao Hin Daeng Trail. First time for me to see it during the day.

Lots of Leopard scratches along the trail; is there an official name for these type of v-shaped tracks on the forest floor? One still showed some wet sand of urine drops(?).
Also one v-shaped marking of a tiger. And in a different area I found pug marks of tiger.
And on the Home of the Tiger trail were fresh leopard pug marks.

It amazes me how easy it is to find the tracks of these big cats in HKK. It makes me believe that setting up a hide for a while on the right spot would offer a good chance to see one.