Month: October 2009
Project #365 Day 39 The Naming of the Bird
This bird, an Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis), visits me pretty much every day for the last…
Project #365 Day 38 The Thing! and It!
We have altogether too many bugs and insects and creepy crawlies and things that make me scream…
Project #365 Day 37 Out and About in Sri Lanka
We were out and about again today – grocery shopping to Battaramulla – so I figured I’d…
Day 36/365 Fahim and the Mystery of the Leaking Water Tank
A few days ago, we had a power cut that lasted all night and part of the…
Day 34/#365 Help! Let me out!
Geckos are just a part of life here in Sri Lanka. I mostly don’t scream when I…
Day 33/#365 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Bugs inside the house, that’s understandable and unavoidable. Geckos, for that matter, can’t even be kept out….
Day 32/#365 Alien Bug From the Andromeda Galaxy!
I wandered outside to our garden and looked at our pretty flowers (did you notice the ant…
Day 31/#365 Squirrel Love
I stood on our balcony, looking around, enjoying the sounds of birds chirping and calling and singing…
Day 30/#365 White Bellied Drongo
The bird of the day is… the White Bellied Drongo. I believe. There’s the White Bellied Drongo…
A banana plant falleth down
A few days ago, a fierce wind started up suddenly. The wind was strong enough to make…
A lizard came for a visit…
This guy is about 15" or so long, including the tail, so not terribly big. I saw…
Day 29/#365 More Out and About in Sri Lanka
We went out briefly today and these are a couple of pictures I managed to get. Garbage…
Day 28/#365 The Birds!
Every morning, I wake up to birds chirping and chattering and singing. And if you haven’t guessed…
Day 27/#365 The Cat!
I messed up posted two Day 26s, one on yesterday’s date, the second on today’s date. Both…
Day 26/#365 Spotted Dove
Today’s bird is a Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis), also known as the Spotted Turtle Dove, Chinese Dove,…
Project #365 Day 26 Sunbird!
Today’s another birdie day. This birdie is a new one for me, I think. You know, lousy…
Project #365 Day 25 Layard’s Parakeet… I think…
These are some of the bright green birds that visit our neighborhood. They can be difficult to…