On Tuesday July 9th we took a shuttle down to Phnom Penh. This was a journey of over 5 hours on bumpy roads reminiscent of those in Malaysia 25 years ago. The journey took us through village after village and with rice paddies large and small. But wildlife was hard to find. A couple of egrets, a few crows and a pair of Red Collared-Doves when we stopped for a break in Kampong Thom were the only new things added to the trip list. After lunch we went to the Royal Palace area where Oriental Magpie- robins were singing, but birds were few and far between.
Our hotel was on the banks of the Mekong River but we saw no birds; we walked to a lake marked on the map but which turned out to be dry and then walked around a small park-covered hill and saw nothing. We took a tuk-tuk back to the hotel;getting off I found a Black Rat within six inches of my right foot! After checking out our driver took us to the airport. Cambodia did not appear to be a very birdy place - but we did not go near the famous sites of Ton-le Sap Lake, Tmatboey or Ang Taepeng etc.
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