Monday, January 15, 2024

FIRST VISIT TO SINHARAJA IN 2024

 I made my 10th visit to Sinharaja in almost 13 years in the 2nd week of January 2024 with 3 other photography friends and managed to get some decent photos of the spurfowl and the chestnut backed owlet among others.

This is a real phenomenon . These barn swallows have chosen these wires to perch in the night in Mathugama town and  in thousands, for many years now during the migration period they are seen here after dusk till dawn congregating like a colony. we managed to see them while on our way to Sinharaja at 4 am.


Endemic Sri Lanka jungle fowl (male)


Endemic Sri Lanka Blue magpie




Black bulbul
giant tree  snail
Endemic Sri Lanka spurfowl (male)


Female
Endemic Chestnut-backed owlet


Scarlet dragonfly

The blue bottle butterfly 



The marsh skimmer dragonfly

Endemic orange billed babbler

Sri Lanka frogmouth


Fourring butterfly 

Endemic Sri Lanka Serendib scops owl

Frozen in time 
Emerald dove



Yellow bulbul


Endemic black capped bulbul