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Gallicissa...a birder in an endemic hotspot
http://gallicissa.blogspot.com
I am a bird watching and nature Tour Guide in Sri Lanka and my blog deals with my travel notes and other social commentary. Apart from birding, I enjoy digi-scoping & thrashing my clients in Scrabble.
- Author: Amila Salgado
- Listed in: Green Destinations
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Recent Posts
Stuck on you
I photographed this Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile at Tissa few weeks ago. A close examination of the base of the beak - lower mandible to be precise, shows a few seeds sticking to it. Here's a close crop. Flowerpeckers mainly feed on fruit...
Mahinda and Ranil singing to Fonseka
We interrupt this transmission to lighten up the mood ahead of Sri Lanka's long anticipated presidential election, which is due to be announced on Monday. I think Ranil and Mahinda must be in full song these days to Gen. Fonseka, like two Spot-winged...
Extreme Macro
Yellow Waxtail Ceriagrion coromandelianum - a Common damselfly found at my dragonfly pond....
Wordless Wednesday
November Rain
The rains have returned to the dry zone, ending the withering drought it experienced for several months. I know this, because I am back from a 4-day trip, which took me to several National Parks in that part of the country. I bore witness to some of ...
Sanderling watching
Last Saturday, I got a detailed reading of my horoscope through a local Astrologer. It was done on my own initiative, for the record. One of the interesting things I learnt from that was that I have two lucky months. They are September and October, t...
