My Local Birding Retreat.................

Allow me to present my nature escape, quite a little heaven consisting of rice fields, a coconut plantation with many other varieties of trees scattered over,  a rocky outcrop with surrounding thick vegetation, an exhausted granite mine now filled with water, just with in five minute's walk from home. Here's a   list of some of the creatures that I have observed there sofar.

Asian Openbill Stork /Anastomus oscitans
 
Little Cormorant /Microcarbo niger/දියකාවා

Rose-ringed Parakeet/Psittacula krameri
Black-hooded Oriole/ Oriolus xanthornus
Indian Roller /Coracias benghalensis  
Indian Pond Heron ,Ardeola grayii

Scaly-breasted Munia, Lonchura punctulata
White-rumped Munia/Lonchura striata
Spotted Dove/ Spilopelia chinensis
Three species of birds of prey that I couldn't ID
Copper-smith Barbet
Sri Lanka Small Barbet
Brown Headed Barbet
Scarlet Minivet/ Pericrocotus flammeus 
Crimson-backed Flameback Woodpecker
Ashy Prinia/Prinia socialis 
White -breasted Waterhen
 Mongoose species I couldn't ID 





White-rumped Munia/Lonchura striata

Indian Roller /Coracias benghalensis 

Ashy Prinia/Prinia socialis