Ceylon Paradise Fly-catcher - Terpsiphone paradisi ceylonensis, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Note the beautiful camouflage provided by the dried Banana leaf.

Views of a 'Tailor-bird' - Orthotomus sutorius, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

'Black-hooded Oriole' - Oriolus xanthornus, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

On the garden wall of our home in Avissawella.

'Brown-headed Barbet' - Megalaima zeylanica, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

I spotted this bird making a meal of a Dragon-fly perched on the bough of a 'Veralu' tree.

'Red-backed Wood-pecker' - Dinopium benghalense psarodes, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

'House Sparrows' - Passer domesticus indicus, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Looking for worms.

Bathing.

Nest of a 'Red-vented Bulbul', time-lapse, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Click on web-link below to see a 'time-lapse' video of the activities in the nest over two afternoons. They took flight the next day.

http://youtu.be/54dN8oje-1g

'Greater Coucal' - Centropus sinensis, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

The couple foraging in tandem.

Molluscs which have come out at night are caught by these birds early in the morning.