I went to Wilpattu for the first time in 2021 and almost after 6 months with my wife and a very good friend of hers in the last week of February for a full day safari. Although we didn't come across the famous cubs of Cleopatra as anticipated eagerly, we managed to see 2 leopards and quite a few birds on that trip.
Juvenile crested serpent eagle
posing well..
Immature serpent eagle
One of the Villus .Full of water
Pin tailed snipe
Golden pacific plover
Female Jungle fowl
Male Jungle fowl
Syncronised drinking
Black tailed godwit
May be because of Poya was round the corner there had been a decline in the activity of Leopards in the park but we managed to see 2 leopards.
This is the Nelum vila big boy. When we saw he was nicely laying down behind a big tree quite close to the main road though we could not see the full body. However he gave some kind of a show as we stayed there for more than 2 hours in anticipation that he would come to the open which he didn't do. Also we were saddened by the fact that he was limping badly when he got up and moved inside later on and only hope that its nothing serious.
A changeable hawk eagle
Chestnut- headed bee-eater
Painted stork
Malabar pied horn-bill
Sun bathing
Female Crested Tree swift
Lesser plover
We manged to see an elephant on our way back
A pair of Woolly necked storks
Taking its own time to cross the road ..
Within 5 minutes to the entrance and 10 minutes before the cut off time of 6pm, we had a Tyre puncture
Entrance at sight around 6.20 pm
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