Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

When lighting is a dominant variable, it can either enhance or impair beauty and mood.  And truth is only revealed when there is minimal interference or manipulation.

And beauty is decidedly in the eye of the beholder.

Pin-striped Tit-Babblers

 Nothing signifies supreme frenzy and chaos as a flock of adult and juvenile Pin-striped Tit-Babblers, darting, hurtling, bolting in and out, many a times tagging along are other birds such as migrant visitors.

And the young ones would be the helpless-looking, unsteady and crying-out-loud ones.

Hadada Ibis

 Shrieking and screaming, and criss-crossing at one end of the taman, the pair of Hadada Ibises announced their presence in the taman, yet not, as they kept to the taman edge, refusing to land inside.

Common Flameback

 Just getting by, it's not what it is, it's what you are.

Oriental Honey-Buzzard

 The heart leapt when I recognised the sihouette from afar.

It has been increasingly difficult to spot any migrant raptors such as Oriental Honey-Buzzards in the taman now with towering buildings mushrooming around the taman.

The transit visit of a Honey-Buzzard used to be a certainty sans these monstrosities, and as a bonus then, seeing a raptor on the ground was even not uncommon.