Project #365 Day 109 – A Frequent Visitor
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Wildlife
December Views – Nine Cows
Look closely and count the number of cows you see. Now notice that this is the middle of a busy…
December Views – Raggedy Squirrel
Squirrels visit us everywhere we go. This squirrel visited us at our first house and perched on our balcony railing…
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 group of them…
Project #365 Day 97 – Gava-Koka Revisited
This bird is a Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), so named because it follows cattle around. In Sinhala, it’s called a…
Project #365 Day 94 – Kahakurulla
Say hello to one of our neighborhood Black-Hooded Orioles (Oriolus xanthornus), also known in Sinhala as Kahakurulla. S/he’s an infrequent…
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. I hope s/he…
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 visit today.
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. I tend to…
Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!
Somehow, and no, I don’t know how this happened, I managed to not take a single photograph yesterday. Not even…
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 it is apparently…
Lizard Crossing
It’s true, it happens fairly often. Large lizards cross the road, roam the neighborhood, wander around seeing the sights. Stop…
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 walk/run/look at everything…
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 them, following in…
Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes
I wish I knew what kinds of bugs we had hanging around our house. This guy looks so much like…
Pooping Cat!
Every single time Fahim sees this picture, he breaks out into chants of "Pooping cat! Pooping cat!" 😀 (Ah, yes,…
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 and cared for…
Three Green Parrots
These are Rose-Ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri), also known in Sri Lanka as Rena Girava. The males have a rose collar…
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 is that I…
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 onto the top…
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 have of monkeys…
Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em best we can,…