Drama at the popular watering hole

 The resident Banded Woodpecker (Chrysophlegma miniaseum) looked like it had not had a 'splashing' time in ages.  It might look like it had an awkward descent into this natural 'pool' but the place is sure all his to enjoy till ....

It has been climbing in and out of the water hole, for reasons best known to itself!

Drying itself,  to get wet all over again.

Wonderfully wet again.

And then it had a visitor, the Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayenis), and a confrontation.

You win, but I'm not leaving.

How about if I just watched you?!

Now, what's the Starling up to now?

Just watching.

A prolonged confrontation.

What! Another? Wheres' the other?

Is it really gone?

Oh no, it's back.

But it's actually a young one this time, and soon joined by an adult.

And another.

Where's my privacy?

And numbers do matter after all.  Ahh well,  better begone.

But three can be a company.

And it's inevitable that the junior should leave.

And look who's back?

And when a place is taken, it's taken so it's wiser to let things be, as the 'wiser' one leaves.

Looking absolutely clean and fresh again under the hot sun.