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Sri Lanka: 2002 - 2006

This is a collection of nature and wildlife pictures from various trips to Sri Lanka's national parks.
Sri Lanka 2006
:: Sri Lanka 2006 :: 		Yala National Park, Sri Lanka: NOVEMBER 2004
:: Yala National Park, Sri Lanka: NOVEMBER 2004 :: 		Udawalawe Wildlife Sanctuary: November 2004
:: Udawalawe Wildlife Sanctuary: November 2004 :: 		Yala East and the Kumana Bird Sanctuary: June '04
:: Yala East and the Kumana Bird Sanctuary: June '04 ::
Yala N.P. June 2003
:: Yala N.P. June 2003 :: 		Udawalawe Wildlife Sanctuary: Dec 2003
:: Udawalawe Wildlife Sanctuary: Dec 2003 :: 		More of Yala N.P: Dec 2002
:: More of Yala N.P: Dec 2002 :: 		Yala National Park, Sri Lanka: April 2002
:: Yala National Park, Sri Lanka: April 2002 ::
Ranweli, Sri Lanka
:: Ranweli, Sri Lanka :: 		Misc.
:: Misc. ::

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Gayan 29-Jan-2007 06:09
Dear David

Just thought you should know this. The crossed tusker that you saw at Yala East is no longer alive. It died due to a gun shot injury, despite the efforts to keep it alive by the Authorities. Unless it has passed on his genes we will never probably see a magnificent crossed tusker again in Sri Lanka.

GG
Mohammed Abidally 16-Aug-2005 08:49
Dear David,

I have been getting so many inquiries since I posted a comment to your beautiful site after the Tsunami that I thought I should put in another trip report.

I visited Yala 12th - 14th Aug 2005. Park is fully functional.

We had 2 leopard sightings. One of the leopards was very big almost size of a lioness! Tracker was shocked by the size and said this particular animal not familiar. He was sleeping peacefully and we watched him for a while. Later a very large wild boar passed on the game path behind the leopard - I have never seen such a big boar before either. A few minutes later the wild boar suddenly attacked the leopard viciously and it sprang up and ran away into the bush. It all happened in a split second. Have some video and pics of this. Next day in the morning while scouting the same area where we saw the leopard, we clearly his huge pug marks. I did not have a tape or ruler to measure but they were about 4.5 - 5 inches across! The second leopard sighting was very fleeting inside the bush and it ran away almost immediately.

Bear - actually there were 3 bear. Daddy bear, mummy bear and baby bear! The big fellow wandered away into the bush while the other two we watched and followed for a while as they wandered through the scrub close to the road. Eventually we saw a game path turning to cross the road so we stopped by the game path expecting the bear to follow the path and cross and were rewarded with a very close encounter!

Generally, Yala was very dry and many water holes have fully dried up as is usual at this time of year. All the water holes on the Gonalabba Meda Para are fully dry. DWLC has made some small concrete basins in the middle of the water holes and filling with some water. When the water holes fill up again with rains these basins would not be visible. Kotabandi wewa is fully dry. Handunoruwa wewa is fully dry. Komawewa is very dry with only a small body of water remaining. There were several very active Crocs feeding on fish at Komawewa in the mornings. Lots of animals coming to drink here and if one just parks and waits on the bund one is rewarded with lots of action. We saw Elephant, Jackal, several herds of very skittish Deer (probably due to crocs), wild boar, in addition to lots birds which included a pair of white bellied fishing eagles.

Anyone wanting more information feel free to email me at mohammed@slt.lk

Regards
Mohammed Abidally
Sri Lanka
Bruce Moorhead 29-Dec-2004 19:13
Wow, you just got home in time. Beautiful photos!

Bruce Moorhead, Port Angeles WA, USA.
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