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 ploverwood 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
