Yesterday (11 Nov) I took a trip in to Negombo, just for the fun of it really but I always like the hustle and bustle of the fish market area and on the beach  there is always fantastic photography opportunities and yesterday was no different.  It was pandemonium with hundreds of fishermen dealing with their nets and shaking whitebait free to land on mats placed beneath.  The small fish are then scooped up in large baskets to be washed clean of sand in the surf by the fishermen and women who really work hard in the very hot sun.  The birds love it because the inevitable spillage of fish provides a meal for not only the terns and cormorants but obviously, larger fish that are  are attracted inshore as well. The cormorants dive for these larger  fish just feet from the incoming light waves. Whiskered Tern are the common birds here and I have taken loads of pictures of them on every visit.  I stood, snapping away trying to get something a bit different and my 300 lens was doing very well,  Suddenly, there it was a Black Noddy Tern close in to the shore, surely not a regular occurrence and I was pleased to not only see it but get a photograph.  This is a large tern with slender, angled wings.  It is a smokey dark brown colour with a head that looks as though it has been dipped in flour or frosting.  Years ago when again in the Pacific Ocean on the Royal Yacht Britannia, a Noddy Tern landed on the focsle and I took a photo then and I have always hoped for another sighting sometime in my life. So it really was a good day for me yesterday.