Wednesday, January 19, 2022

First visit to Bundala in 2022 ......

 I went to Bundala for a half a day visit in the 2nd week of January 2022 with a fellow birder friend, his daughter and the nephew and had a very fruitful session clicking 8 new species and over 25 species overall.

On our way through the highway which too us only 3 hours going a little slowly..

Whiskered terns in flight
Managed to see two elephants just before the entrance

rare migrant the brahminy starling

Sri lanka wood shrike
Eurasian collared dove.
rare migrant : Ruff
Little stint
Black- tailed godwit
Grey plover
Marsh sandpiper
Eurasian hoopoe
lesser plover

Little ringed plover
wood sandpiper
Greater painted snipe-female
Male



small pratincole

curlew sandpiper
little terns
barn swallow
golden pacific plover
ruddy turnstone
eurasian spoonbill

rare migrant: bay-backed shrike

crested serpant eagle

common redshank
Caspian tern

whiskered tern
jacobin cuckoo
great thick-knee
yellow wagtail



beautiful beach

yellow-wattled lapwing
common -redshanks in flight
black-winged stilts in flight
uncommon white-naped woodpecker




First visit to Sinharaja in 2022......

 I did a half a day visit to Sinharaja in the 1st week of January 2022 .


Endemic Sri lanka grey hornbill

illusive endemic sri lanka spurfowl


scarlet minivet

endemic sri lanka blue magpie


sri lanka frogmouth
indian paradise flycatcher
endemic spot-winged thrush 






Black bulbul
endemic yellow-fronted barbet
ceylon scimitar babbler
dark- fronted babbler
black-naped monarch