Crested Hawk Eagle and a Lesser Whistling Duck Encounter at Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka.
During the time I lived in Sri Lanka and during my regular visits to Sri Lanka, Wilpattu National Park didn’t disappoint me with unforgettable wildlife sightings and unforgettable experiences. This is where my passion for wildlife photography grew into great proportions. This is a story I wanted to tell for a while and finally got some spare time to blog about this extraordinary experience I had with a Crested Hawk Eagle Back in 2016, on a cold and foggy morning on one of my visits to the Wilpattu National Park.
Read More»The Season of Western Tiger Salamander
As I scroll through my image archives something interesting came to my mind because of a photoshoot I did a few years ago. I quickly glanced at my calendar; I realized that it was almost mid-August. An interesting phenomenon happens in my favorite National park close to Winnipeg at this time of the year.
Riding Mountain National Park is known for its rich biodiversity, as we keep an eye on big animals like Black Bears, Moose, Lynx, Foxes, and wolves, on a rainy cool evening after mid-August, an explosion of Western Tiger Salamander happens. I reckon this to the largest animal gathering in Manitoba next to the red-sided garter snakes gathering in Narcisse snake dens in Manitoba. I am a careful driver, I will avoid driving over salamanders at all costs as they slowly march out of their ponds around Highway 10, Lake Audy Road, and side roads in and around Erickson, Manitoba, These Locations come from my observation during the last five years and western tiger salamanders can be found all around the national park and close by towns.
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