We have just returned from Lam Pak Bia. This site is not far from Petchaburi (140 Baht by taxi motorbike - about 25 km or so), and "White-faced plovers" are seen regularly last winter. After some long walks in baking sun, we found at least one "White-faced plover" in winter plumage and made some acceptable photos of it. The whole area there is good for birding - among the better birds we saw were a flock of 5 painted Storks, Flyeater in the magrovers, Pacific Golden plovers, one lesser sandplover, more then 50 red-necked stints and one long-toed stint, black-winged stilts and whiskered terns offering many photo opportunities, western reef egret, night heron and striated herons.
Mr Dang is your (boat) man at Lam Pak Bia (tel 0802235250 if you want to contact him beforehand). He will bring you with his boat to the beach where the plovers are for 500 baht. He is a friendly and knowledgeable guide (but his house is absolutely full of mosquitos -- don t come barefeet or with short pants -- you will be eaten. You can also walk to that sand beach area though -- about one hour from mr Dangs house -- following the magrove boardwalk till the end and then following the pier towards the sea (just walk untill you cannot go any further anymore).
Mr Dang also found us a very nice guesthouse about 1 km from his house - homestay accommodation for 400 baht for double room in the fishponds (good for birds -- collared, black-capped and common kingfisher from our balcony). In the bushes near the beach opposite our guesthouse we also had good views of 3 hoopoes and paddyfield pipit. There was also obvious migration of Black drongo, Blue-tailed Bee-eater and Ashy Minivet.
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