Tuesday and Saturday
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On Tuesday I wore five on top, three below for the expedition. And don’t
forget the gloves, scarf, woolly hat and the head torch for lighting the
way. Th...
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A Sri Lankan blog
Bird and Nature Blogs
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Brown Shrike caught a frog - Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) caught a small frog look I got something big for breakfast store the food on the wire the frog is too big to be eat whole, ...1 day ago
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Red-flanked Bluetail, Deeping Lakes LNR - Yesterday evening news came through of a Red-flanked Bluetail at a local nature reserve just down the road two days earlier. Surely it couldn't still be ...1 day ago
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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate - On that glorious day, I observed ten critically endangered birds, representing 8% of their Costa Rican, or 2% of their global population!! But, let’s start...2 days ago
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First record of Greylag in Adyar estuary - "On 15 November evening while walking along the riverside road in the Theosophical Society at about 5.15 pm I spotted a pair of big greyish coloured lon...5 days ago
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Kissing frogs in pouring rain – a herping diary from Munnar - Love frogs and snakes but reluctant to get your boots muddy? Join Vibhu Varshney on a vicarious visual journey herping in God’s Own Country! The Green Og...1 week ago
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Conversations With Birds – Priyanka Kumar - Conversations With Birds by Priyanka Kumar is a fun collection of essays about the author’s birding adventures. Born in India, Kumar moved to the United ...2 weeks ago
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Birding with Bob and Gabby - 29th October - 2nd November 2022 Their first birding trip to Sabah since they started to enjoys birds in the Philippines late last year. We started at...3 weeks ago
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site - I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...4 months ago
Blogs continued
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මුගටියා (Herpestes smithii) - පහත රට වියලි සහ තෙත් යන කලාප දෙකේම වනාන්තර සහ වනාන්තර ආශ්රිත ප්රදේශ වල සුලභ මුගටි විශේෂයකි. අඩි 3500 සිට 4000 ට වඩා උස කඳුකරයේ දුර්ලභය. දිවා රාත්රී ...2 days ago
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Common Kingfisher - Thalangama, Sri Lanka - Common Kingfisher photographed at Thalangama this morning. The bird was far away and I had to crop the image a fair bit. It was pretty quiet from a bi...
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I'm No Dog Hater... - ..but it's the owners who sometimes get on my wick. So I'd arranged to go out with my mate P the other evening. I've known him for years and I suppose I'd...3 years ago
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Those not-so-fab "Mom" days... - Ain't no shame momma. Today was one of those mornings. I woke up to a shrill little "YEAAAAAAAAAKKKKKGURGLE" in my ear. LO (little one) was wedged between ...6 years ago
Amila Salgado
- Amila Salgado
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- I am a naturalist guide specialising in bird watching and wildlife tours. I have keen interests in Theravada Buddhism and Vedic Astrology. I became an ardent Buddhist in October, 2012 after meeting Venerable Waharaka Abhayaratanalanka--who attained the Supreme Bliss of Nibbana in February, 2017. I studied at St. Peter's College, Colombo 4.