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.

Yellow-billed Babblers' nest, Avissawella, January 2020.

Crying for a feed

Feeding a hungry chick

Both parents at the site

Feeding

Mother is listening

Abandoned nest

'Blue-tailed Bee-eater', Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka, 15th December 2019.

Cormorants on the 'Kiri-ibban Wewa'. on the road to Sooriyawewa from Udawalawe

Causeway at 'Kiri-ibban Wewa'

Roadside tea boutique

The flock of  Cormorants

Approaching the shore of the lake

Close to the shore

About turn and back to the safety of the lake

Pecock dancing, Udawalawe, Sri Lanka, December 2019.

Pea-cock showing off to a pea-hen close-by, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka, 15th December 2019. While we were watching the dance we spotted the pea-hen nearby. The pea-hen saw us and scooted off in one direction and the pea-cock folded its feathers and ran off in the opposite direction.

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Peacock dancing – Udawalawe

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Bee-eaters of Udawalawe,, Sri Lanka

Please click on web-link below. All photos taken by Philip G Veerasingam

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Two hours inside the Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka, 15 December 2019