Red-vented Bulbul and squirrel sharing a papaw fruit, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

 

Asian Koel - Eudynamys scalopacea, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White-browed Bulbul, Pycnonotus lluteolus, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

 

Common Myna, Home Garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

Common Wood Shrike, Home garden, Avissawella,, Sri Lanka, March 2020

 

Red -vented Bulbul, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

Male

Female

Asian Koel - Eudynamys scolopacea, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Enjoying a slice of ripe papaw on the feeding tray. Traditionally their mating season commences, just before the Sinhalese - Tamil New year. Their mating calls are heard throughout Sri Lanka.

Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri, Home garden, Honiton Place, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

This was a rare appearance in our home garden, to feed on the ripe plantain left on the bird feeder

Purple-rumped Sun-bird female - Nectarinia zeylanica, Home garden, Honiton Place, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Adolescent House Sparrow - Passer domesticus indicus, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicata, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Indian Robin, juvenile, female? - Saxicoloides fulicata, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

After laying its eggs in a hole in the wall of an embankment, the parents would be constantly on the watch for predators. I have seen them pecking at the head of a much larger ''Monitor Lizard' when the latter went close to the eggs. The parents feed the young ones till they are fit to fly. After about a week of flying they part ways. Even though it is called  a King-fisher this type exists by eating moths, dragonflies, grasshoppers etc.

Purple-rumped Sun-bird - Nectarinia zeylanica, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

This species pirces the base of this large flower with its pointed beak and sucks the nectar. They flit from flower to flower rapidly and are a real challenge in photography.