About Me

Nick Upton is currently involved in web development and ornithological projects in Thailand having graduated in 2007 with a First in BSC (Hons) Wildlife and Countryside Conservation.

How to Reuse & Recycle Envelopes Using Sticky Labels

Envelope recycling has caused some people real problems, with some local authorities deciding that stamps, gummed edges and the dreaded plastic windows mean that envelopes are not suitable for recycling. After reading about the dilemma of envelope re...

Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham is one of Dr Suess's most enjoyable and amusing books, with a clear message to unadventurous children and adults alike. With wonderfully strange situations in which to try Green Eggs and Ham, superb rhyming text and the surreal ill...

Helm Bird Identification Guides

The Helm series of Field Guides and Identification Guides are a superb set of resources for birders, birdwatchers and ornithologists alike. This lens lists all the bird books in the Helm series that I know of.

Ten Great Comedy Movies

I enjoy movies of all types but I particularly like comedy movies. Some of the best comedy movies make me laugh over and over, particularly those that have lots of little things happening in the background that might be missed first time around. I ap...

Save the Rainforests

Rainforests come in a variety of types; tropical and temperate rainforests, cloud forest, lowland rainforest, hill slope rainforest all of which can be either primary or secondary in nature. One thing all these types of rainforest have in c...

10 Wonderful Bird Video Clips

Birds are an amazing group of species, the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, indeed there is evidence to suggest that they are dinosaurs. Bird behaviour is complex and varied, and birds are capable of remarkable feats of intelligence and dexter...

How to Make Quality Flashcards for use in Classroom Teaching

On my first day of my first job as an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher, I was given the "new boy" task of constructing flashcards. This sounded like a job that even the most useless of simpletons could excel at and so, with little...

How to Share your Photos and Make Money with Shareapic!

Shareapic is the perfect way for digital photographers to make a little pocket money from all those photographs that are lying dormant on their hard drives. If you regularly share your digital photographs with family, friends or with others on forums...

Asterix Books by Goscinny & Uderzo

I have loved the Asterix books since I was a child and continue to enjoy reading them into adulthood. As a youngster, the combination of colourful illustrations and Roman bashing adventures were enough for me, but as an adult the books reveal a lot m...

Book Review Blog

Book Review Blog is my attempt to write short book reviews on all the books in my large collection. The project began in September 2007 and I regularly add to the quickly growing list of book reviews. This lens provides a short summary of the content...

Birdwatching in Thailand - my favourite birds

Birdwatching in Thailand can be a most amazing experience due to the huge variety of species. Biodiversity is very high in tropical Asia and this is reflected by almost 1000 bird species having been seen in Thailand with new species being discovered...

The Life of Birds

The Life of Birds is a fantastic 10-part documentary BBC televison series first broadcast in 1998. Narrated by David Attenborough, The Life of Birds contains some of the most memorable footage of bird behaviour ever seen, including many species never...

Birdwatching in Thailand - where to watch birds in Thailand.

This Lens provides some basic information on some of the best locations and habitats in which to watch birds in Thailand. There are also many links to more detailed information. Created by Nick Upton thaibirding.com

Book Reviews and More Book Reviews

I have enjoyed reading since I was a child of about 6 years old, encouraged by my mother, and have amassed a very large collection as I find it difficult to part with books. In August 2007 I began a project that had been in my mind for some time; to...

How to earn an easy £15 per month, per website or blog.

Matched is an easy way to make some money from your blogs and/or websites. I joined it last month with my website about birdwatching in Thailand and I am looking forward to receiving my first payment soon which will include the £5 signup bonus t...

Methane is a Greenhouse Gas

Greenhouse gases are gases in earth's atmosphere that trap solar radiation and warm the atmosphere in the same way that a greenhouse increases the temperature within its bounds. Carbon dioxide is probably the most well-known greenhouse gas and the b...

Great Gifts for Bird Lovers

Sometimes buying gifts for Christmas, birthdays or as a thank you can be really difficult. However, buying gifts for bird lovers is really easy, particularly those bird lovers with a garden as a new feeder, table or other device to attract birds is a...

Birdwatching Tips, Tricks, Techniques and Secrets

Birdwatching is a stress relieving, healthy and social hobby, something that can even be done from the comfort of your own home. For beginners, it can be confusing to knwo what one is looking at or how to attract them to one's garden. However, t...

Birdwatching in Thailand: Where to find Free Maps, Checklists and Trip Reports.

This lens provides information about the thaibirding.com website, what its purpose is and what its aims are. Created by Nick Upton thaibirding.com

Birdwatching Tours in Thailand

Thailand birdwatching is a fantastic pastime due to the country's geographic location. Thailand's position at the junction of Wallacea, Indochina and Himalayan foothills means that there is a wide variety of species to see and by traveling aroun...

Asia Birdwatching Websites

Asia is a superb continent for birdwatching; extending across a vast area of the globe the variety of birdlife is incredible. With many countries in Asia being easily and cheaply accessible, birdwatchers can travel Asia for many years and always find...

A Who's Who of Asterix the Gaul Stories

A little Gaulish village on the Armorican coast still holds out against the Roman forces in 50 BC by the fortune of having a village druid who has discovered a potion to give the Gauls superhuman strength - this is the premise for over 30 graphic nov...