Way back from Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

Scenes at the Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

Purple swamp-hen

Indian Darter

Birds on an abandoned paddy field, Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

The Wasgamuwa National Park was created in the early 1980s. It had quite a few paddy fields which had a shortage of water for cultivation of rice. The entire population in the area demarcated as the Wasgamuwa National Park was given land with water supply in the Mahaweli diversion projects, elsewhere.

Deer at the Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

By the banks of the Deduru Oya, Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

Deduru Oya, Wasgamuwa National Park border, Sri Lanka.

Spotted Deer and birds, Wasgamuwa Natioonal Park, Sri Lanka.

Jungle fowl and elephants, Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

Nests of the Baya weaver bird, Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

At the Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

At the entrance to the Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

Going by Safari Jeep to the Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka.

On the road to Wasgamuwa, Sri Lanka.

Note the electrified wire to prevent wild elephants straying on to the highway

Heavy equipment being used to carpet the highway.