Tour Reports
Wednesday 17 January
The view of long sandy beaches and coconut palms greeted us as we made our approach to the capital Colombo. We touched down at 1340 local time and were soon in the queue for Immigration. After collecting our luggage we entered the Arrivals Hall where Deepal, our local specialist birding guide, was waiting for us […]
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Saturday 20 January 2007
Our morning walk, before breakfast, was around the hotel gardens where the barbets were in the same tree, still gorging on the fruit, and a Brown Shrike perched sentinel on the same branch as yesterday. A Spot-winged Thrush appeared all too briefly, but couldn’t be relocated and didn’t react to the playback. We left and […]
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Sunday 21 January 2007
An early start this morning with coffee and tea served for us at 0445. We left the hotel on schedule at 0500 for the long drive to Sinharaja. Most of the group dozed on the journey. As we drove through the town of Ratnapura there were tens of thousands of swallows roosting on the electricity […]
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Monday 22 January 2007
Breakfast was at 0600, before daybreak. We had succeeded with all the key species of Sinharaja yesterday and decided that we needn’t travel back there today. Another rainforest could be visited instead, at Gilimale. The drive took an hour from the hotel. There was a wide track leading from the main road through the forest […]
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Tuesday 23 January 2007
A later start this morning as we had to transfer to Embilipitiya. We were travelling from the Wet Zone into the Dry Zone and the drive was to take about three hours due to the narrow winding roads. We stopped a couple of times, once for the sight of four Black Eagles soaring together. Our […]
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