A wake-up call at 4.30 to leave at 5 for the hour drive to Yala in a large, 9 seater Safari jeep. Daybreak saw us waiting to enter the park. The morning was spent driving round the tracks in various states of ruttedness. Lots of birds and butterflies, and then a call came that there was a leopard in a tree. Off we went and we were soon looking at a leopard resting on a branch a fair distance away. We were lucky we had scopes and bins, in the majority of the other jeeps no-one seemed to have even small ones and the views must have been almost minute. We spent the rest of the day driving round various tracks and tanks seeing lots of water birds, including Great White, Intermediate and Little
egret, Purple, Grey and Pond Herons, Pintail and Painted Snipe and Painted Storks. There were several White Bellied Fish Eagle, and we had a Shikra fly through. Another call for leopard, but this time there were 2 lolling on a branch of a tree with a real scrum of jeeps jostling for position at the two best vantage points. Our driver pushed our way through and then we took a circular route to save having to go through the scrum again. We drove out around 6 in the evening and returned to our hotel in the gathering gloom.
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