I spent a great couple of hours out at sea this late afternoon. I was looking to photograph terns and unfortunately the weather turned a little inclement and it actually poured down with warm rain.  We had made our way over teh choppy sea  to a ship wreck about a mile or so out at sea off Negombo.  Most people would probably have turned back but my fisherman friend was happy and so was I. When we got there the expected thousands of birds turned out to be just a few Swift Tern, at first very disappointing. Then I caught sight of yet another Brown Noddy….a bird that I had seen close to shore the other day of Negombo. This time we could manoeuvre the boat to get a good shot and that's exactly what we did but without any bright sunshine it was hard to get anything worthwhile. Out of around 100 taken only a handful were good enough to keep and heres a couple of them.  The fisherman and his friends back onshore told me that they have never in their entire lives at sea here in Sri Lanka, seen this species before so you could say I have been very fortunate.