White Breasted Kingfisher- Thalangama LakeLittle do most know what a rich biodiversity hotspot's our own homes are. We seldom take time to notice the array of wildlife seen in our day to day surroundings. Whether its while watering the plants in the garden, or going for a morning walk along a nearby lake, we are constantly living among wildlife.Pied ...

preparation for a coffee table book is key. Finalizing the pictures you want to feature in the book takes a very long time. Sometimes its very hard to let go of some images, as you may have a personal attachment to them. But in order to publish a book, one has to make sure the best of the best are ...

Nagarhole National Park, popularly known as Kabini due to the Kabini River, is a very popular wildlife destination in India, and famed for its sightings of a rare individual leopard with Melanism, also known commonly as a Black Panther or Black Leopard.I organized a tour to visit this park in December 2019, and along with a group of 10 clients, ...

The Avurudhu holidays were coming and I still didn’t have any solid plans. During last few days coming on to the holidays I made a last moment decision to do a two day trip to the great blue oceans in Mirissa. My friend Ganindu runs the best whale watching operation in the area named as Whale Watching Mirissa and I ...

Yala or Ruhunu National Park is the most famous Safari destination in Sri Lanka. The park was out of bounds for a few years due to a terrorist attack in 1996, therefore even after Yala was re opened to the public the school did not want take any risks by taking young school chindren into a place with another possible ...

Dear Friends I am pleased to announce that I will be publishing my first coffee table book titled "Children of Eden". It will feature a collection of images I have taken during my travels to the wild of Sri Lanka. Also the book will feature narrations and articles about my experiences, encounters etc. This is a dream of mine which ...

This is the first blog post for the New Year. I apologize for not writing anything sooner, but I have been quite busy the last few weeks. I was going few weeks on end in Colombo and was wanting a quick Jungle fix. I spoke to my good friend Raveendra and decided to do a weekend in Wilpattu. As this ...

Imagine seeing an animal who almost looks like a prehistoric dinosaur, and too unreal to be a living breathing creature? This is what most people feel when they encounter a Great Indian One Horned Rhinoceroses. These legendary beasts are straight out of a story book, with skin looking like armor plating it was one of the most unusual and unique ...

Africa a place of my dreams. This was a land I was fascinated by since I was a little boy going through the amazing images on the National Geographic magazines, and the documentaries I watched. A land of teeming wildlife, and legendary species. This was my dream and something I needed to accomplish in my life. Further, I had a ...

I had been planning a trip to Mannar for a very long time. I didn't go there during the season for January and February when there were many flamingoes and regreted missing this amazing sighting. I made arrangements with my usual travel friends Riaz, Raveendra and Ganindu to go there during December. As usual the best place to stay in ...

An extended long weekend approached us and I had made no plans. But my good friend Riaz suggested we do Mannar for one final time as the season is coming to an end and there were still many birds and photographs which I wanted. So we planned to book Four Tees Rest for 3 nights. This would be the longest ...

Sri Lanka undoubtedly is the land of the leopard. This is one of the few places in the world where the leopard can claim the moniker of the apex predator of the wilderness. In other continents and countries such as India or Africa, the leopard needs to compete with larger and more formidable predators such as lions, tigers, and even ...

What is a tusker and why are they so special in Sri Lanka? This is a question many people asked me over the years. The truth is that no only the fact that only 7% of the male elephants in Sri Lanka carries tusks, which makes them so rare and special, but the aura and behavior of a tusker ...

I was fascinated about the great whales of the ocean from a very young age. Most people who knew me as a little boy would recall me drawing pictures of whales and going everywhere with my countless books on the subject. Whales were my favorite animals at the time. I always dreamt of seeing these giants of the ocean one ...

We were on our last day in Kumana National Park during September 2011, tired and bored to death, the entire trip had been quite uneventful and the wildlife were scarce due to the drought. We were desperate for a good sighting. Our tracker Herath Banda advised us to park and wait on the main road as if he was expecting ...

Leopards are by far the most popular animal in Sri Lanka, and even in this blog the most comments I received were for these beautiful cats. Therefore for all you leopard lovers, below are a set of photos taken on a trip during May 2010. It was the first time I used my brand new Canon 100-400 mm lens along with the new Canon 7D body.Enjoy !!!

I have been camping in the wilds of Sri Lanka ever since I was a little boy. I got this opportunity through the Wildlife Society of my school S. Thomas College, Mt Lavinia. Every term holiday was a treat as we would go for over five days camping in a National Park. By the time is was 18 years I ...

The Comb or Knob Billed Duck is a migrant species which has not been seen in the country for almost 80 years. The initial discovery of this duck’s arrival was at Yala this year. Thereafter there were scattered reports of the duck been seen in places such as Deberaweva and the marshes of Bundala. I was after a visit to ...

I will never forget the first meeting of the Wildlife Society at S. Thomas College, which I attended in 1997. I was the youngest member, and all the other boys were seniors in their late teens. This did not hold me back and I signed up for the first trip of the year, which was a 5 day camping excursion ...

We were driving down a dark misty road on a chilly July morning in Wilpattu National Park when I came across a sighting which will haunt me forever. A dark shadow passed over us and we saw a large bird fly along the tunneled forest canopy. The approaching jeep must have disturbed it as it dropped something large on the ...