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.

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A pair of Imperial Pigeons on a withered Jak Fruit Tree

It’s said that you will love your Sigma 50-500mm lens as long as you don’t point it up a tree. Here is proof. I shot about 20 photos of this Changable Hawk Eagle perched on an Alastonia tree but only one came well. Even then there is room for improvement.

There are certain light conditions though which allow the lens to be pointed up at a tree, a clear sky with the sun behind your shoulder is one of them.

Torque Monkeys. They are endemic to Sri Lanka and their numbers are dwindling fast. Sri Lanka’s population is overwhelmingly Buddhist. The Buddhist literature tells us of how the Lord Buddha appeared in previous incarnations as a monkey (eg VĀNARINDA-JĀTAKA.).

What does the average Sri Lankan do when they come across Torque Monkeys? throw rocks at them and light fire-crackers to scare them away. In some extreme case they are fed fruits laced with poison or shot with Air Rifles. So unwittingly perhaps these Sinhala Buddists are behaving like Devadatta