We were up early again and headed back to the same place that we went
yesterday morning, near Urulanthanni, to try to pick up a few species which we
missed yesterday. In that respect we succeeded and managed to add Malabar grey
hornbill, brown shrike, drongo cuckoo, shikra and oriental honey buzzard to
the list, as well as getting better views of some birds, particularly
heart-spotted woodpecker.
However after being pushed out of the way as I photographed the Sri Lanka frogmouth, I told Vinod that I wouldn't be leaving the area around the homestead this evening,
instead I'd prefer to go birding alone in the local area. I'm at the stage
where I can't bear to be anywhere near most of the cliental of the guides
here, most of whom appear to have no fields skills whatsoever. The irony is
these very same people probably slate twitchers, yet what they are doing is
100x worse.
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