Sri Lanka, Jan. 19 -- Listen, hornbills are striking!" shouted my son as a couple of Ceylon Grey Hornbills on the branch of a tree in the distance made a loud bird call in the forest canopy that greeted us. It may not be a strange sight to this forest since it's home to them. Although I have frequented this forest a dozen times to meet the Bhikkus of the hermitage, this time we visited it mainly for bird-watching.
Bodhinagala, better known as the Dombagaskanda forest reserve, nestling in the outskirts of Ingiriya in the Kalutara district, lies beneath the leafy canopy of a wet zone tropical rainforest reservation of some 50 acres. The forested mountain itself has been granted for the use of monastic Bhikkus of the Bodhinagala forest hermit...