IT IS PARTY TIME IN YALA WATER HOLES...

In September 2012 I WAS WITNESS TO THIS AMAZING SITE IN YALA .THERE WAS A FRENZY AND A PARTY MOOD AS THESE BIRDS AND CROCS HAD THE TIME OF THEIR LIFE EATING AND TASTING FISH......

 Painted storks in their numbers.

 A wooly necked Stork joining the party...

 ----And a Spot Billed Pelican too--

A Lesser Adjutant Stork watching the scene

 A juvenile Painted Stork arriving..

 And  a lucky one....

 Here comes the Crocs..

 Doing their trick by splasing the water and creating panic among the fish..

 The fish  getting into the trap...

Gotchya. . .

 

WOW...What taste..This is delicious.

 A common Kingfisher looking jealous

I am Done.

Time to relax. . .

AT LAST THE GREATER FLAMINGOS ARE HERE...

After a lapse of 3-4 years,finaly a group of 16 Greater Flamingos have come to Sri Lanka and were seen in and around Bundala park and Hambantota Lagoon.At present the whereabouts of 13 birds are not known and only 3 are seen in the lagoon of HAMBANTOTA. I too got the opportunity to photograph these much sought after birds in September 2012. 

DAREDEVILL ACT IN GALLE FORT ...............

This yong adrenaline junkie who makes his living by jumping from the edge of the Galle Fort into the ocean surrounded by rocks did his trick much to our delight in September 2012.

EVERYONE LIKES TO LOOK NICE AND CLEAN....

THIS IS NICE . . . . ..

 These two Purple rumped Sunbirds were having a gala time bathing in our garden while I was watering the plants.

BEAUTIFUL PLACES .....VISITED IN JUNE/JULY 2012

                                 AMBULUWAWA -GAMPOLA

Seen from Gampola town

 At an elevation of 3567 feet, on the summit of Ambuluvava peak that rises just four kilometres from Gampola, a sapling of the sacred Bo Tree of Anuradhapura is carefully, lovingly tended.

 The Art and Architecture of the Gampola Period (1341-1415 AD ), the foot of this mountain holds the ruins of the Malati-mala-sailays, the dwelling place of Dharmakirtti Sthavira. Only the platform of this ancient edifice now remains in the embrace of a grove of araliya.
It is all part of a heaping dish, actually..... and it is for the people. Even as we made the dizzy climb, I saw many making their way up to the conference hall and also to the summit viewing platform. On the first eminence is a beautifully designed conference hall, all of three levels and with a commanding view of the surrounding country.




The ENTRANCE

 Sixteen rooms make up the unit around a hall that can seat 150 and which is equipped with sound systems, multi-media and all the trappings.


The route



Beautiful scenery





Seen from one of the many openings at different levels





The spiral staircase





The entrance to the hall

                             RIVERSTONE OFF RATOTA



A male Indian Robin





Dark fronted Babler





Hill MYNA






Indian Scimitar  Babler

 


Grey Cannery Flycatcher