Monday 28 February 2011

Day 2

We started the day with the highlight of probably the whole trip. This obliging Sri Lankan Frogmouth pretended to be a dead leaf and tried to convince us that it did not exist as it sat motionless 2m away. Then to complete the set the guide found the male doing a similar thing 100m up the track! The weather had affected the birds and the rest of the day was much harder but eventually we tracked down 4 species of Drongo and a couple of flycatchers but not the pretty blue ones! The evening session was cut short by the rain so after failing to find the Trogon we went back to the tent instead of looking for nightjars.

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