Banded Woodpecker

 How many ways to display, the woodpecker's way.  An encounter with a gorgeous adult male Banded Woodpecker is surely a bonus considering that it's mainly a juvenile I've seen in the park.

Not the least fazed, as it went its way.

Natural pincer grip, of its claws.

Green Tortoise Beetles

And a lone one.

Green tortoise beetle (Cassida circumdata)

Damselfly, Dragonfly and Butterfly

 

Common Flashwing (Vestalis amethystina)

Common Parasol (Neurothemis fluctuans)

Pond Adjutant (Aethriamanta gracilis)

Spine-tufted Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysis)

Common Snow Flat (Tagiades japetus)

Red Jungle Fowl

 Perhaps it thought that by freezing it would avoid detection.

By nature the Red Jungle Fowl is always wary, easily spooked, which is not adverse for it being poachers' favourite.

Then did it think I had looked away!?  

Whoa, what the ....?!

Puff, puff, ruffle, puffle ... hmmmnn

Better not linger no more.

Crested Serpent-Eagle

 When does one's attention get riveted by the calls, or rather the screams of a Crested Serpent-Eagle given that it could even be considered the neighborhood common raptor!

Sharp, piercing, circling endlessly, now low, now high, it did come across as somewhat in desperation.

One wondered if all's not well with this one going by the blemished patch on the underwing, and one of the legs that looked less than perfect.

No response, from anywhere else, and that's the anti-climax.

It flew off eventually, as if to disappear into thin air.

Rock Pigeon

There was the expected, then there was the unexpected, that 'flowered'!