A few different Tern species.

Before the complete post  then here's the Stork-billed Kingfisher that I promised you yeaterday.

We went to a little place up the coast called Chillow today. Its off the beaten track and not in the least bit a tourist haunt. No English spoken and the train, very basic as it is, did the job for the princely sum of 35p each. It was good to see the rural scene as we passed along the line, every rice field full of egrets and every cow having at least one Cattle Egret for company. Then now again a stork of unknown species appeared in to view. A wonderful experience to say the least, (in spite of my earache). I have travelled all my life and you can't explain to non-travellers what the 3rd world is like unless you have been. The sights, the smells the one legged beggars, the poor (and I mean POOR) with no shoes and the lovely smiles that everyone is ready to give, in spite of having nothing.  Most people seem so much happier than the average European. I am constantly reminded of the inequality there is in the world and the good fortune of people in England who don't know the meaning have having nothing and then  feel hard dome by if they haven't got satellite TV (for example). In Chillow there are some sand spits that form an estuary and this was why had returned today. In about an hour I photographed 4 species of tern include my first new species of the trip, a Gull-billed. I also had some wonderful views of a lovely Caspian Tern which I have now been lucky enough to see on three continents, europe, USA and here in Asia but I haven't photographed them very well before. If you look below there is a Whiskered Tern first followed then  by a Crested Tern (also called Swift Tern) and then the Caspian as mentioned. Then a Gull-billed Tern, a first for me as I already said.