Tag: Wildlife
Project #365 Day 109 – A Frequent Visitor
As always, please feel free to comment and critique. I’d love to hear from you – what…
December Views – Nine Cows
Look closely and count the number of cows you see. Now notice that this is the middle…
December Views – Raggedy Squirrel
Squirrels visit us everywhere we go. This squirrel visited us at our first house and perched on…
Project #365 Day 100 – The Naming of the Lizard with a request for suggestions
I don’t know if this is the same lizard who visits our garden, or if there’s a…
Project #365 Day 97 – Gava-Koka Revisited
This bird is a Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), so named because it follows cattle around. In Sinhala,…
Project #365 Day 94 – Kahakurulla
Say hello to one of our neighborhood Black-Hooded Orioles (Oriolus xanthornus), also known in Sinhala as Kahakurulla….
Project #365 Day 90 Injured purple-faced langur
One of our neighborhood purple-faced langurs is injured. Check out the red splotch on the right arm….
Project #365 Day 89 Vichuli Visits
The oddly-coloured (to me) blue and brown bird, aka white-throated kingfisher or vichuli came back for a…
Project #365 Day 88 Is that a wasp’s nest?
I generally make it a rule to stay as far away from biting insects as I can….
Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!
Somehow, and no, I don’t know how this happened, I managed to not take a single photograph…
Project #365 Day 86 Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty…
I don’t even know why it’s called a centipede. It doesn’t have a hundred legs, yet, centipede…
Lizard Crossing
It’s true, it happens fairly often. Large lizards cross the road, roam the neighborhood, wander around seeing…
Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections
Fahim’s sister and her children were in town for Eid. Naturally, with three children old enough to…
Project #365 Day 78 Cattle Egret, aka Gava-Koka
Yesterday, as a clan of cows wandered our neighborhood, eating the vegetation, a flock of cranes joined…
Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes
I wish I knew what kinds of bugs we had hanging around our house. This guy looks…
Moo! Moooooo!!!!! Moooo!
Because, and for no other reason. 🙂 Enjoy!
Pooping Cat!
Every single time Fahim sees this picture, he breaks out into chants of "Pooping cat! Pooping cat!"…
Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it…
Three Green Parrots
These are Rose-Ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri), also known in Sri Lanka as Rena Girava. The males have…
Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?
No idea what the heck this insect is, although it vaguely resembles crane flies. All I know…
Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!
In the first picture, the adult purple-faced leaf monkey, aka purple-faced langur, helps the little monkey up…
Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.
It turns out I was wrong. This does happen on occasion, yes. 😛 All those pictures I…
Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em…