Annual trip to Mannar .....

I made my annual trip to Mannar  (which I started last year) again in January 2020 to catch a glimpse of the Migratory birds. I took the night train at 9pm on a Thursday night and ended up at Thoddaveli station at 5,15 am the following day . The Four Tees guest house is right across the station and after a brief wash etc I got in to the arranged three wheeler and went  around Mannar covering the saltants, Vankalai , Causeway etc. This time too the most sort after Greater Flamingos may be around 600 in numbers were seen as a speck couple of km/s into the lagoon and I managed to get a  boat to take me closer . The up close confrontation was a real spectacle to watch as they were doing their thing at their pace.
I also photographed a few other migrants that are here from around November to March each year.

 Russell's viper

Black Kite

Whiskered Tern

Common Sandpiper

Caspion Golden Plover

Green Sandpiper

Common Ringed Plover

Little Grebe and the young

Black tailed Godwit

Female Garganey

Male .In flight

Eurasian Spoon Bills

Northern Pintail

Common Redshank

The most sort after: Greater Flamingos

Barn Swallow

Painted Stork

Glosy Ibis

Common Moorehen

Whimbrel

Grey Plover

Rudy Turnstone

Western Reef Heron

Lesser Sand Plover

 dark backed Heuglin's Gull

 Juvenile dark backed Heuglin's Gull

Curlew Sandpiper

Northern Shoveller