Sri Lanka is a beautifully green and wild country with so much to see but you do need plenty of time to enable you to get around it at the Sri Lankan pace, we mainly used the train network which is an experience in itself but offered amazing view as the old steam locomotive wound it's way up into the hilly region through the tea plantations. They had no issue with me out on the deck leaning out to the side to get some scenic photos.
If you ever travel to Sri Lanka for the birding, I would strongly recommend arranging for a local bird guide prior to travel, I unfortunately did not and went out of the way to visit the Sinharaja rainforest as it is purported to be the amazing for birdlife which move about the forest in flocks of randomly mixed species. The guide I had was arranged by the hotel, and although knew a lot about the reptiles, spiders and trees, sadly had no knowledge of birds :( Also, I realised once we arrived at the forest, that we were on the wrong side from where my research had said we should be, we stayed to the southern edge and tracked the river to a natural pool for swimming. Lesson learned, local birding guide pre-arranged for my next trip away, especially as I don't go on birding holidays as my missus isn't remotely interested.. :)
Anyway, here are the first tranche of bird photos that I've sorted, they are generally poor quality, from a distance, in my defence though, I spent the time ensuring I captured the features of the bird with the naked eye to aid identification should it fly, then I took the photos. Oh yeah, and secondly, I'm rubbish at taking photos!
Bar-winged Flycatcher-Shrike
Great White Egret
Indian Pond Heron
Large-billed Crow
Little Cormorant
Purple Heron
Black Eagle
Jerdon's Leafbird
Layard's Parakeet
Oriental Magpie Robin
Purple-rumped Sunbird (f)
Purple-rumped Sunbird (m)
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