Year and Month	2009 onwards…
Number of Days	Uncountable
Crew	Me and My wife (My girlfriend those days )
Accommodation	N/A
Transport	N/A
Activities	Photography, touching the nature hidden around
Weather	Varies, mostly nice
Route	Hikkaduwa and suburbs
Tips, Notes and Special remark	Spend a little time to see close to the nature around you I’m sure that you would be amazed. I’m encouraged by the reports of Manu and Chandanie and decided to share my experience
Author	dilshan
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Most of us think that if we need to see wildlife and other interesting sceneries we must go away from our area. But if you are patient enough to explore your own garden for few minutes per day you will be amazed how much of beautiful creatures are found around you. Here are my own experiences. All of these were captured around my garden in Hikkaduwa and around. Unfortunately as I’m using a humble camera I missed most of the photographic moments of birds.

Birds visiting my garden

Kingfisher	Red wattled lapwing
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A stranger visited our neighbor’s garden one day. It was a giant python. All the people gathered and captured this uninvited guest and released it into a woody area situated few kilometers away.

The uninvited guest	The beautiful patterns
Ready to release…

I found butterflies in my garden in abundance. But it was quite difficult task to take pictures of butterflies as they move very quickly. Photographing butterflies develops patience in my life

A jewel four-ring	A jewel four-ring
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A gray-pancy	A gray-pancy
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One evening I found a rare civet cat that was chased by a herd of dogs. It hid under logs in a corner of my garden and unable to move because it was covered by the gang of angry dogs. So I captured him very carefully and put it into a bucket. Then I called to my sister who is a lecturer of biology in university of Sabaragamuwa for an expert advice. She told me that these creatures are very active in the night and advised me to keep the creature until the dusk and release it into its natural habitat. I did as she said and I’m very happy that I could save the life of an endangered creature.

civet cat that was chased by a herd of dogs	I captured him very carefully and put it into a bucket
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Tortoises are visible in most rainy nights	.
Mongoose mother and baby	.

Thanks a lot for watching my report. And look forward to see your experience too.