The daurians have landed!

 They came unexpectedly as they have not been seen for a while as if they could sense the expansive Ficus benjamina heavy with ripening fruits, and it was easily a flock of fiftyish.

The Daurian Starlings (Agropsar sturninus) are easily one of my favourite migrant birds to watch out for by virtue of their beauty in numbers and flight patterns except that their numbers sighted here seemed to have dwindled over the years.

And they were simply spoilt for choice, and I couldn't stop clicking despite standing at the same spot under the blazing sun as they kept coming although when feeding these birds hardly come together.  And at the slightest approach of a walker, they automatically came together and fled.

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Unfortunately not all were ripe for the picking yet so perhaps this abundance could keep these birds here for a while.

And then it's rest and preen in between feeds and intermittent flights.

And a pair that looks like a male on the left and a female that's more brownish even on the underpart, the best way to determine is of course by looking at the upperpart where the male is more glossy and deeply patterned and coloured.