Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka [FOGSL] is completing 40 years of Conservation "Together for Birds and People" in 2016 / 2017 . This achievement was commemorated with the BirdLife Asia Council and the BirdLife International Global Council meeting up in Sri Lanka. A highlight of these events was the Bird Fair at the Thalawathugoda Wetland Sanctuary on Sunday the ...
Jaffna today is one of my favourite leisure haunts and a preferred travel destination and will be always longing to be there when time permits.I have been here twice before in 2011 and 2014. Both trips have been recorded in this Blog as well. The first in 2011 was just for eight hours while 2014 was a bird watching trip ...
Follow my Photo writing after the description below.........Jaffna today is one of my favourite leisure haunts and a preferred travel destination and will be always longing to be there when time permits.I have been here twice before in 2011 and 2014. Both trips have been recorded in this Blog as well. The first in 2011 was just for eight hours ...
Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka [FOGSL] was the need of the time for a group of academics of the Zoology Department of the University of Colombo, to promote and to receive scientific knowledge of our avian fauna by attracting the general public of this country for its conservation.The organization was started with a few likeminded academics and professionals in ...
Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka [FOGSL] was the need of the time for a group of academics of the Zoology Department of the University of Colombo, to promote and to receive scientific knowledge of our avian fauna by attracting the general public of this country for its conservation.The organization was started with a few likeminded academics and professionals in ...
The countdown beginsThe long waited re-union named the Mother of all Re-unions; the Golden Jubilee of the Class of 66 of the then St Thomas’ Preparatory School in Bandarawela [STPSB] is just a month away. On the 7thof July 2016 the first member arrives in the country. Dulip Nilaweera also known as ‘Tonto’ both at school and at home, who ...
The countdown beginsThe long waited re-union named the Mother of all Re-unions; the Golden Jubilee of the Class of 66 of the then St Thomas’ Preparatory School in Bandarawela [STPSB] is just a month away. On the 7thof July 2016 the first member arrives in the country. Dulip Nilaweera also known as ‘Tonto’ both at school and at home, who ...
Now that the Maestro Amaradewa is no more having bid farewell to the nation that is to continue mourning for a few more days………let me put here our feelings and encounters from the time of the first announcement of him being hospitalized.It was Thursday 3rd Nov 2016, morning and I am leaving to Hambantota having put up at my home ...
Now that the Maestro Amaradewa is no more having bid farewell to the nation that is to continue mourning for a few more days………let me put here our feelings and encounters from the time of the first announcement of him being hospitalized.It was Thursday 3rd Nov 2016, morning and I am leaving to Hambantota having put up at my home ...
We who left St Thomas’ Preparatory School Bandarawela [STPSB] in 1966 having completed the Standard Five; the highest grade in the school then call ourselves the Class of 66. This year marks the 50th anniversary of our stay at STPSB. The Class of 66 are to reunite at the school from the 12th to the 14th of August in line ...
We who left St Thomas’ Preparatory School Bandarawela [STPSB] in 1966 having completed the Standard Five; the highest grade in the school then call ourselves the Class of 66. This year marks the 50th anniversary of our stay at STPSB. The Class of 66 are to reunite at the school from the 12th to the 14th of August in line ...
St Thomas’ Preparatory School, Bandarawela [STPSB] in the 1960’s was definitely the only fee levying school that conducted classes from the Kindergarten to Standard Five in the Province of Uva in Ceylon then.Established in 1942 by Mr. W T Keble it has come a long way excelling both in academia and sport. I was fortunate to have passed through this ...
St Thomas’ Preparatory School, Bandarawela [STPSB] in the 1960’s was definitely the only fee levying school that conducted classes from the Kindergarten to Standard Five in the Province of Uva in Ceylon then.Established in 1942 by Mr. W T Keble it has come a long way excelling both in academia and sport. I was fortunate to have passed through this ...
Ever since joining the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka [FOGSL] in 1996, attending the annual workshop at Sinharaja was a routine event for me. This was to continue for almost 10 years until occupational and family priorities overrode. However it was always an urge to be at Martin’s Lodge in Sinharaja whenever time permitted. The creek flowing by with ...
Ever since joining the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka [FOGSL] in 1996, attending the annual workshop at Sinharaja was a routine event for me. This was to continue for almost 10 years until occupational and family priorities overrode. However it was always an urge to be at Martin’s Lodge in Sinharaja whenever time permitted. The creek flowing by with ...
Martin Wijesinghe, for many Sri Lankans would only be another name…………but to those with a knack for the wilds, the environment, and the Sinharaja Forest…. the only one of its kind in Sri Lanka: Martin is a dear friend and a loving companion. Martin for that matter is now an authority on Sinharaja…….. It all began in a very humble ...
Martin Wijesinghe, for many Sri Lankans would only be another name…………but to those with a knack for the wilds, the environment, and the Sinharaja Forest…. the only one of its kind in Sri Lanka: Martin is a dear friend and a loving companion. Martin for that matter is now an authority on Sinharaja…….. It all began in a very humble ...
A Stroll Down Memory Lane S Thomas' College Gurutalawa was founded in 1942; in order to re-locate S Thomas' Collage Mt Lavinia, when the military issued notice to vacate the school in five days subsequent to a Japanese bomber being downed at the collage grounds on 5th April 1942. The WW II had come to Ceylon.Mr. & Mrs. Leslie de ...
A Stroll Down Memory Lane S Thomas' College Gurutalawa was founded in 1942; in order to re-locate S Thomas' College Mt Lavinia, when the military issued notice to vacate the school in five days subsequent to a Japanese bomber being downed at the collage grounds on 5th April 1942. The WW II had come to Ceylon.Mr. & Mrs. Leslie de ...
Canada with changing climates from extreme winters to temperate clime is best described to Canadian standards. Vancouver the port city in the west is the capital of British Colombia and is one of the warmest cities during the winter. On the contrary Vancouver is also one of the wettest cities while on an average there is eleven days of snow ...
