What I thought was a bandicoot digging up the bank turns out to be a mongoose. The other day, I put out some food scraps for the pigs and a lovely mongoose turned up to eat them instead.
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| Just a dark shadow here |
Then this morning there was a hell of a screeching noise and the cat was really agitated. Turns out it was a Crested Serpent Eagle with a Green Vine snake wrapped around its ankle. Another bird came to try to help it, a Black Eagle, I think, but it wouldn't stand for it. It flew off the branch of the mango tree it was screeching in to the ground and then into the undergrowth. I thought that the snake was poisonous and the bird would die. Turns out the snake is mildly venomous, not enough to kill such a big bird. The bird killed it and then ate it off its leg and flew away.
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| Screeching in the mango tree |
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| On the road |
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| Crested Serpent Eagle is endemic to Sri Lanka |
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| Green Vine Snake |
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| Black Eagle Not really sure if this was the good samaritan or not but it was certainly this big. |
Got some uguressa fruit from my neighbour the other day and made jam first with orange juice and then with fresh passion fruit juice. Delicious! You prepare it like cranberry sauce. Just wonderful.
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| Uguressa |
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