Nature and Others on camera by Asiri

Saturday, July 4, 2020

1st Trip to Yala in 2020 after the lockdown.......

As the night curfew for Colombo was taken off a week back, I went to Yala with my wife and daughter on a week day in the first week of July. It was a day trip and as the highway is functional up to Mattala, we started fromm Kottawa at 3 in the morning and by 5 we were in Hambantota. By mistake we didn't exit from there and went to Mattala and then found our way to Yala and entered the jungle at 6 . The good thing was that I was able to buy the entrance ticket online which helped us avoid going to the office.It was an interesting day and by 10 pm we were back at home.

Our driver Duleetha saw this one while passing by at 6.15 near Jamburagla turn off .

After a while it came down and started drinking from a water puddle just in front of our jeep at the edge of the road.

Then it walked a bit on the road....

.....Sat down and attended to some routine stuff.

Something caught it's attention .........

.......and after a while went inside around 7.05

around 9.45 , again we saw the same Leopard like this...

Then started flexing a little..

Came out on to the road....

moved away around 10.15

A male Deer

A wild Boar digging for food

A Peacock

This was a welcome and a rare site these days

This Serpent Eagle flew on to this tree with a snake

A grey mongoose

This lone Elephant must have been doing it's own massaging...

This Croc was sunbathing and slowly got in to the water

A button rail ...

These Elephants were in the water for some time and came out

They passed our Jeeps very calmly though there was not much space for them and got on with this...

Time to re-treat I guess

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

ACTIONS OF A BRAHMINY KITE..................

I managed to click these interesting pictures over the weekend in end May 2020 near Jayawardenapura walkway

It came down and caressed the surface after hovering above as usual...

These pictures were clicked within a second and it was only a blur .... You can see a fish vaguely

To see it was an enormous Fish

This shows that may be due to the size the Kite looses the grip off the talons...

The Fish falls back in to the water and the luck is with the fish..

The Kite must have thought "What a catch but I lost it "

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

VISIT TO ANURADHAPURA AND WILPATTU ...

I went to A'pura with my family , my eldest sister and her youngest daughter who have come from Australia on a short holiday. We started around 5 am and reached A'pura around 9 am and after a brief rest, went and worshiped SRI MAHA BODIYA , RUWANWELI SEYA and then went around the city and looked at most of the places with archaeological interest. After that proceeded to Wilpattu and after lunch at a close by hotel, made way to the jungle around 2.45 and had the chance of seeing a Bear and a herd of Elephants drinking water which was the highlight.