This is obviously a bat. I will even go so far as to say this is a fruit bat. To narrow it down even further would be putting my neck too firmly on the line. Notice the ant on the bat’s head? notice that it’s using the leaf of the shoe flower tree for shade?

A pair of Brown Headed Barbets feasting on Jambu.

There are more than 100 different varieties of dragonflies in Sri Lanka. So you must forgive me for not knowing this beautiful insect’s name

She is an Asian Paradise Flycatcher. Her partner would have a much longer tail.

This is what the sparrows were upto a couple of weeks before they started waiting for the eggs to hatch.

Sparrows don’t build nests like other birds do. Theirs are usually in rafters and lampshades and sometimes pots like this. Many people hang small pots of boxes on their walls for sparrows to come and live in.