Sri Lanka - 2nd - 16th March 2014, a birding and culture trip.
Welcome to my website dedicated to a fabulous trip myself, my wife Anne, and 6 friends did, after several years of talking about it at various times. We are all birders from south Wales, UK, living in various locations in the area stretching from Cardiff to Porthcawl. Most of us are members of the Glamorgan Bird Club.
This was a privately organized trip initiated by my friend David Bush [the handsome guy wearing the Barcelona FC baseball cap], who had expressed an interest in visiting Sri Lanka over a number of recent years. David made the initial contact with Prasanjith Caldera aka Jith, the proprietor of WalkWithJith.com, based in Colombo. Jith put together a 15 night itinerary for us which took in the main cultural sites and a few other visits e.g. to a tea factory, a traditional herb garden, and a wood carvery, plus visits to the main birding areas. At the start we were given nicely presented trip checklists each, plus a handy little Sri Lankan – published guide to the principal species. We also had our own field guides, mine being the excellent Helm guide, Birds of Sri Lanka, ISBN 978-0-7136-8853-5.
The whole team in the photo above are L>R, Christine Trew, David Bush, Anne Wilson, Clive Ellis, Huw Thomas, Nandana Hewagamage [our excellent guide], Hazel Peters, yours truly and Alan Rosney. Click on the tabs at the top to navigate the site. Nandana's contact details are: [email protected]; Tel: 0094779669367, or 0094712541093
There's a small selection of pix at the foot of each page and there are gallery pages. All photos can be clicked on to see a larger version.
PDFs of the trip report text, and the species list can be downloaded by clicking the red hyperlinks
This was a privately organized trip initiated by my friend David Bush [the handsome guy wearing the Barcelona FC baseball cap], who had expressed an interest in visiting Sri Lanka over a number of recent years. David made the initial contact with Prasanjith Caldera aka Jith, the proprietor of WalkWithJith.com, based in Colombo. Jith put together a 15 night itinerary for us which took in the main cultural sites and a few other visits e.g. to a tea factory, a traditional herb garden, and a wood carvery, plus visits to the main birding areas. At the start we were given nicely presented trip checklists each, plus a handy little Sri Lankan – published guide to the principal species. We also had our own field guides, mine being the excellent Helm guide, Birds of Sri Lanka, ISBN 978-0-7136-8853-5.
The whole team in the photo above are L>R, Christine Trew, David Bush, Anne Wilson, Clive Ellis, Huw Thomas, Nandana Hewagamage [our excellent guide], Hazel Peters, yours truly and Alan Rosney. Click on the tabs at the top to navigate the site. Nandana's contact details are: [email protected]; Tel: 0094779669367, or 0094712541093
There's a small selection of pix at the foot of each page and there are gallery pages. All photos can be clicked on to see a larger version.
PDFs of the trip report text, and the species list can be downloaded by clicking the red hyperlinks