Day 2 : of the two-day trip to Sirimangalapura, Kantale

Visited Seruwila Mangala Raja Maha Viharaya. Returned back from Kantale by the night-mail train. Saw a herd of wild Elephants, beside the Alla-Kantale road at dusk, on the way to the train.

 

The Seruwila Stupa

 

Seruwila

 

the Shrine room at Seruwila

 

Ruins at Seruwila

 

"Saruwath" a way-side refreshment

 

A Wild-Elephant ...

 

...... and another ...

 

of the herd of Elephants  far-a-way.

 

A Little Green Bee-eater

 

A White-throated King-fisher

 

A Skimmer ? - Dragonfly

 

Hoppers for Dinner at the railway station

 

inside the train

Day 1 : of the two-day trip to Sirimangalapura, Kantale

The main aim of this trip was to make the initial study of how to establish a local area wifi-zone around the "Pipena-Kusum" home library. The group went to Kantale by the Trincomalee night-mail train.

on the way to Kanthale ...

 

at 4.00 a.m. in the morning...
 @ the Kantale railway station

 

a nest of swollows

 

...the flood-planes reservation ...

 

... just before... the Sun-rise ...

 

picking Water-melon from a way-side farm

 

... the farmer's hut ...

 

foot prints of wild Elephants on a sandy road

 

A wild Elephant beside the main road

 

... the Wild Elephant ...

 

Brad helping two kids with the course

 

A Crimson-fronted Barbet

 

A Common Crow- butterfly

 

A Water-Moniter

 

at Mawil-aru ... at night ..

Polgasowita

Haritha Diyatha members went on a inspection tour, to look into the feasibility of creating a Herbal Garden on the edge of the "Jayawimana" housing scheme's play ground, at Polgasowita. Many members of the neighbourhood were also present.

 

the gathering ..

part of the play ground

 

the play ground covered with low vegitations

the plaque on a side of the play ground

A male - Pied Parasol

A female - Pied Parasol



Red-wattled lapwing

Dombagaskanda (Bodinagala) - Ingiriya

A Haritha Diyatha one-day field exploration trip to the Dombagaskanda forest (Bodinagala), Ingiriya. The birding session was interupted by rain.
The members took part in a "shramadana" (campaign of providing voluntary labour), organized by the "dayaka saba"  of the BODINAGALA "aranya senasana" (Buddhist forest monastry), in passing a heap of bricks up the mountain, for a proposed new construction at the monastry.

break-fast on the way



At Dombagaskanda

 

passing bricks up the mountain

...also carring bricks up ....

 

steps that go up ...

 

into tha forest ....

 

trailling up ...

 

descending down

 

walking down along the road

 

beside the vehicles

 

A Bird nest on an embankment

 

Black-capped Bulbul

 

"Daluk"