Red-backed wood pecker - (Black rumped flameback)

I took this picture at Nawalapitiya, with a Fuji S1500, using a zoom of 12X.

Tickell's blue flycatcher

I took this picture amid heavy foliage at Kosgama. The blue flash in the greenery alerted me to this rare sighting in Kosgama.

Modernisation

'Once there were green-fields, touched by the sun,...'

 Modernisation has come to Nawalapitiya. Telephone and Electricity pylons with their accompanying wires, cellphone transmission towers on the hills and reams of coloured plastic despoiling the once virgin beauty. That is the price of modernisation.

One of a herd of Buffaloes at Malabe

Buffaloes have been the beasts of burden in South Asia for millenia. They are still used very profitably in Sri Lanka. I took this picture of the head of one of them in the outskirts of Colombo, at Malabe.

Cricket match

An inter-school cricket match between two girls' cricket teams at the Janadipathy Vidyalaya, Avissawella, Sri Lanka. Cricket is very popular in Sri Lanka now.