Monday, November 15, 2010

Hornet tasting a peeled banana fruit.

A peeled banana fruit in our garden attracts a lot of birds like the red-vented bulbul, the brown-headed barbet and the Sri Lanka bush warbler. I spotted this hornet who has been troubling my bee-hive tasting the banana fruit. You can also spot a fly and red and black ants on the picture I took.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

A Crow-pheasent, Dehigaslanda, Sri Lanka

The Crow-pheasent is a constant presence all over Sri Lanka. They come to our garden and pick up and eat all the slugs and snails. They also keep a watch on birds nests and pick up the chicks of the small birds just before they leave the nest and make a hearty meal of them. Tradition has it that you hear their cry before the onset of rain. I took this picture in a paddy field in Gampaha.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

'The rose's scent ...'

'Fairest things have fleetiest ends, their scent survives them close,
But the rose's scent is bitterness, to him that loved a rose'.

Picture taken in my home garden, Avissawella.