Day -3 : Haldummulla Trip

The third & final day  of the trip, began with a Bird-watching session at the Haldummulla Medicnal Plants Garden. The St, Benedict's Monastery : Adisham in Haputale & The Sora-gune Devalaya in Hal-atu-thenna, Haldummulla were visited, before heading back to Colombo.

Sri Lankan Grey Hornbill

A Juvernile ? Grey Hornbill

Crimson-fronted (Ceylon Small) Barbet

Layard's Parakeet



White-bellied Drongo

Adisham

Sora-gune Devalaya

a Structure infront of Soragune Devala

Soragune : a part of the Roof structure

an entrance to an ancilary building

a timber door

Gurula : a wood-carving

The Group ... at Haldummulla

Day 2 : Haldummulla Trip

On the second day of the Haldummulla trip, the Medicinal Plants Garden at Pattipola was visited. The route from Haldummulla to Pattipola was via Beragala, Haputale, Bora-landa, Keppetipola, Rendapola and Ambewela. The returning back to Haldummulla was through Welimada & Bandarawela. A bird-watching session took place at the Haldummulla Garden in the after-noon. Prof. Piyal Marasinghe delivered one of his lecture that evening too.

 

The breaking of thr dawn ...

The view from Haldummulla Gardens

 

 

View down from Beragala

On the way to Pattipola



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name Board of the Pattipola garden

Loth-Simbul

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bark of Loth-Simbul

 

Daru-Harridhra : Native to the Himalaya's but endemic to Pattipola

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daru-Harridhra : Flower

Daru-Harridhra : Fruit & Leaves

Bin-Kohomba

Thwarala : the Napal sp.

Thwarala : the Sri Lankan sp.

Dull (Dusky) Blue Flycatcher : Pattipola

Pied Bush-Chat : pattipola

Lesser Albatross : Haldummulla

Unknown Larva

Pink Skimmer

Grey-Headed Canary Flycatcher

Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher

Black-headed Cuckooshrike

Black-headed Cuckooshrike

Giant Squirrel

Common Toad

Common Toad

(Halliday's ?) Shrub Frog

Some Music to end the day ....

 

Day 1 : Haldummulla Trip

The First day of the, three-day trip to Haldummulla. We arrived at the Haldummulla Medicinal Plants Garden in the after-noon. Prof. Piyal Marasinghe, Scientist/Officer-in-charge, showed us around the garden, explaining about it's Flora & Fauna. He also did a short multimedia presentation on "The Host Plants of Butterflies" later in the evening.

Surathali-Ella @ Halpe

The Fist Haritha Diyatha activity : Surathali-Ella Name board - 2006 Nov.

National Research Medicinal Plants Garden

The Dormitory Building : & the Vihara-kanda

The Map of the Garden

Lunch is ready ....

Prof. Marasinghe explains ..

Listening to the call of a Bird ...

A flowering plant of Komarika

Boo-Kenda

Sri Lankan Wood-pigeon

Sri Lankan (Pompadour) Green Pigeon

Large Guvava Blue (Butterfly)'s larva nesting in

 a Kukuru-muwan fruit

Discussion @ tea

Prof. Piyal @ his lecture