A cliche photograph: a tropical beach with coconut trees swaying slowly in the gentle breeze. The beach is at Ahangama, on the south coast of Sri Lanka, close to Galle

The Tamarind Tree – Siyambala as it’s known in Sinhala

The sky has fallen into a pond in Serukele

Brown Headed Barbets haven made two appearances already on these pages. Now it’s time for a Yellow Fronted Barbet enter the stage. The Brown head’s scientific name is Megalaima zeylanica , Zeylanica is a word that sounds like Zeylan the old portugese name for Ceylon which later because Sri Lanka. However the brown head is spread over much of Asia. It is the Yellow Fronted Barbet that is endemic.

An Indian Scimitar Babbler.