Another generation

 It's always a cycle of life and death, ageing and renewal, hold and release, and most of all continuity in the taman.

Trees are felled, and little ones sprout from fallen trunks, similarly the cycle of life renews continuously in the avian world here.  Although birds in the taman mainly bear Least Concern status by the IUCN standard, one tends to think that a loss every now and then is tolerable. 

However safe or threatening is the habitat in the taman, it continues to be a playground, training ground, foraging ground for both resident and non-resident birds.

Amidst the present destruction in the taman with fallen trees and nests strewn here and there, it couldn't be an over-exaggeration to feel heartened as bird calls and cries continue to echo here.

And suddenly it's seems even a notch uplifting to come across the commonplace Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, a regular taman visitor, with a trailing juvenile, that looked like it's on the last leg of the hold-and-release avian stage.

Loud and crying after its parent, it drew attention although its dark plumage did not enable immediate sighting.

It was obviously a deliberate strategy of the parent that kept on moving away as the young tried desperately to keep up.

And then with a foraging plantain squirrel in the vicinity, the parent was forced to stay close and wait out the moment together.

When the coast was clear, it was time for the parent to continue its lesson.

Awaiting on another perch.

Finally joined by the juvenile....

... but soon alone again, with the parent now nowhere in sight.