The sad fate that befalls most Sri Lanka Trees

Sri Lankans hate trees.

A bee hard at work gathering nectar to take back to it’s hive. Also hard at work is a tiny insect much smaller than the bee, just barely visible on the petal below the bee

Yep, everyone should have in their collection a photo of a bee and everyone should have a photo of an Agapanthus flower as well. So it’s two in one

The Shoe Flower is a member of the Hibiscus family and can be seen all over Asia. Here in Sri Lanka it’s known as ‘Sapattu Mal (සපත්තු මල්)’, and you can see many differently colored varieties.

Here is another dew on flower cliche photo

This flower has many different names including Conch flower, Butterfly Pea, Nil Katarolu (නිල් කටරොළු) , Nil Katrol (නිල් කට්රොල්) but the most interesting of them all is without doubt Clitoria ternatea, a name derived from the word Clitoris.

Late last year, a pair of spotted doves built a nest amongst the rafters in our house. They laid eggs on it at least three times. Sadly just after the third pair of eggs were hatched, one of the parents fell victim to a cat. Fortunately the Single Parent family did survive, but after the chicks flew off they never came back, That is until now. This photo is the last time I so them, they were wondering about out of the nest and the next morning, they were gone

I don’t know the life span of a dove, so I would tend to think this is one of the hatch lings, now all grown up that has returned to the nest rather than the surviving bird from the original pair with a new partner.