We start with a piece of mangrove forest, where sometimes special birds can be seen. We go there a few more times, but it does not yield the birds I was am looking for. A few of the others did see an Indian white-eye, a species that lives in the mangroves. Then we go to a large mudflat area, where we find the expected crab-plovers and slender-billed gulls with their pink summer bellies. The birdwatchers think there are about 1500 of each species.

A little further on is a fishing port. The fish waste is cleaned up by hundreds, no thousands, of gulls. There are also herons and terns on the pier. The birdwatchers track the wading birds in search of a Great Knot. The guide has found one, and he takes a picture with my camera. I believe him, and I have included the evidence in my collection.