A Leafbird lesson

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The jungle is more than alive when one comes across young ones thriving.  A young Leafbird, that looks like a blue-winged leafbird,  sighting that the habitat is healthy and nurturing.

A Shrike display

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To Shrike with love.  Like I've intruded.  Like I'm the unnatural one.

A Serpent-eagle lesson

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It's uncommon but it was a treat when you allowed close proximity.  And I celebrate your outstanding features.

A Hornbill lesson

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We always want the best.  You give your most natural, may not be the best.
We forget that in the natural, there's yet always beauty in the worst.

A falconet lesson

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I wonder what you see that we don't.

You came, you took what you saw, you left.

No need to linger, and you will do the same again and again, here and elsewhere.

A Stork lesson

Balcony birding

A beauty by any distance is still a beauty, and not just in the eye of the beholder.   The eye that is lazy does miss much, so does the dismissive.

A Pigeon lesson

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Birds that do not ask for more than trees to shelter, and to fruit, only claiming space according to presence, nothing more, nothing less.

A Pigeon lesson

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Not all birds are the same, or are they?
We separate them, we classify them.
When we miss them, then we wish we could see one, any one.
Will I look at you differently from now on?