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"

Sirimangalapura & Somawathi

A two-day trip to Sirimangalapura (Seru-nuwara, Kanthale - on the 14th  & 15th June 2014), for a computer training workshop for student who use the "Pipena kusum" home library. Also visited Mawil-aru and Somawathiya temple.

An Introduction...

.. and practicals.

 

going back home...

 

Sunset over Mawil-aru

 

the remains of the dead Elephant @ Mawil-aru
(See 2014 March 09 post of this blog)

 

Serpent Eagle

 

A Gecko sp. (?)

 

Pied Parasol (female)

 

Plum Judy

 

Indian Nightjar

 

Middella

 

Eth-honda (Tusker's trunk)

Palu (seasonal wild fruit)

 

Weera (seasonal wild fruit)

 

Somawathi temple