haven for birds-- SEETHAWAKA BOTANICAL GARDENS , AWISSAWELLA

 

Seethawaka Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden which mainly serves as a research area and a conservation area for threatened and vulnerable endemic plant species in the Sinharaja rain forest region.  The garden was opened to the public in late October 2014 and it is the most recently constructed botanical garden in Sri Lanka. The total land area of the garden is 42 ha (105 acres).This is situated on the Puwakpitiya-Thummodara road, at Illukowita, adjacent to the Indikada Mukalana Forest Reserve bordering Avissawella. The garden has a tropical climate.

A beautiful stream flows through the garden, which sustains the existence of various wet zone plants. 

I have made a few visits to this promising place since July 2023 and was able to take some fabulous pictures.

Alexandrine parakeet

Sri Lanka hill myna

Fantailed flycatcher

Large billed warbler

Brown breasted flycatcher

Endemic sri lanka grey hornbill

Mating....

Asian paradise flycatcher

In transition..

Black bulbul

Oriental honey buzzard

Endemic sri lanka wood shrike

Very rare Banded bay cuckoo

Crested tree swift

Oriental white eye

Endemic yellow fronted barbet

Sri Lanka swallow

Chestnut headed bee-eater

Tickell's flycatcher

Indian pitta

Brown capped pigmy woodpecker

Golden fronted leafbird

Endemic black capped bulbul

Forest wagtail

Alpine swift

House sparrow

White rumped munia

In love with water

Brown shrike

Bar winged tailed flycather

Common Iora

Sri Lanka green pigeon

Yellow bulbul

Three toed kingfisher

Pale billed flowerpecker

Scarlet minivet-female

Male

Asian brown flycather

Changeable hawk eagle

Black eagle

Barn swallow

Paddyfield pipit

black headed cuckoo shrike-female