After enjoying some early morning birding in the garden, again, around the magic tree - where we added Jerdon's Leafbird to our trip list; and an excellent breakfast, we were off to Nuwara Eliya.
A couple of roadside stops along the way gave us the opportunity to stretch our legs, and also have Ceylon tea and chocolate cake at the St Clair Tea Room. Crested-serpent Eagle, Great Tit, Common Kestrel and House Sparrow were added along the way.
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| Sri Lanka Hanging-parrot |
Sadly several Indian Flying Fox were seen tangled up in electric cables as we travelled along.
By lunchtime we were nearing our next hotel and had a profitable half an hour or so at a track crossway, here we had over 100 Sri Lanka White-eye, feeding on what appeared to be small mimosa flowers. Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher, Greenish Warbler and Sri Lanka Scimitar-babbler were all additions to our sightings.
In the afternoon, as the heavens opened again, we stopped near a local wetland on the way to Victoria Park. Several Pintail Snipe were seen feeding in the flooded pasture.
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| Sri Lanka Gian Squirrel |
At the park we managed to add Forest Wagtail, had great views of a male Indian Blue Robin, but the star of the show was Indian Pitta, a species we were to hear on many occasions over the rest of the trip, but which would elude our eyes!
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| Indian Pitta |
Brown Wood-owl was heard as we neared the hotel for dinner.
Mammals added:
Dusky Striped Squirrel, and 'Highland grizzled' form of Sri Lanka Giant Squirrel.
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