Surprisingly I made my first visit to Yala for this year in the 2nd week of November with 2 fellow photography friends and their wife's for a day trip and got the rare opportunity to photograph the illusive Shirkeer Malkoha after so many visits.
oriental skylark
asian green bee eater
pied cuckoo
Icing on the cake- The shirkeer maloha
Pintailed snipe
yellow wattled lapwing
barnswallows
brown breasted flycather
Changeable hawk eagle
Copper smith barbet
chestnut headed bee eater
Brown fish owl
Getting this shot was quite an achievement I believe
malabar pied hornbill
brown shrike
male black headed shrike
Ominous looking wasp nest
blue tailed bee eater
little ringed plover
common redshank
roosting grey nightjar
sri lanka wood shrike
ruddy turnstone
lesser sand plover
A mongoose doing the honors
This elephant with must was walking in the open at a distance but turned back and charged all the way close to the jeep getting annoyed to the braking sound
quite an unusual sight of a green bee eater on a dead rabbit
We managed to see this leopard and were lucky to see some movements
pigmy woodpecker
wooly necked stork
juvenile black crowned night heron
A crock lurking in water
common greenshank
Unfortunately we only saw a glimpse of this tusker as it made sure that we didn't get a proper look
female tree swift
A closely knit family
Eurasian hoopoe
A male aya weaver bird in action
grey headed fish eagle
Brhamin kite
There were more than a few calls right though our day safari and finally saw a few
Asian paradise flycatcher
