FIRST VISIT TO SINHARAJA FOR 2026......

 I went to Sinharaja in the 3rd week of January 2026 with my fellow photography couple. Although the visit in general was dull compared to other recent visits, the highlight was the unexpected opportunity we got to see the illusive Sri Lanka Bay owl that was in our bucket list for a very long time.

The illusive  and endemic Sri Lanka bay owl

Green pit viper

Chestnut backed owlet

Spot winged thrush

Brown breasted flycatcher

Hump nosed lizard

Black capped bulbul

Sri Lanka Frogmouth

FIRST VISIT TO BUNDALA FOR 2025 AND A TRIP TO BLOCK V AND VI.............

I visited Bundala bird sanctuary and Yala block V and VI in the 3rd week of December with a fellow photographer friend ;

 Golden Caspian plover

Kentish plover

Pintailed snipe

Indian Thicknee

Ruddy turnstone

Marsh sandpiper

Little stint

Curlew sandpiper

Common redshank

Pied kingfisher

Eurasian spoonbill

Caspian tern

lesser sand plover

black tailed godwit

Gull billed tern

Wood sandpiper

Ashy headed sparrow lark

Whiskered tern

small pratincole

Indian roller

Saunders tern

Female grey bellied cuckoo

Barn swallow

Yellow wattled lapwing

Jorden's bushlark

Grey headed fish eagle

Malabar pied hornbill

Orange breasted green pigeon 

Crested hawk eagle

Brown shrike

Eurasian hoope

Black winged kite

baya weaver

Rosy starling

luring the female with the display