Captivating white-eyes

 It's almost a perfect palette of delightful hues of lime green, lemon green and olive green with splashes of sunshine yellow.  And only Nature could so artfully intersperse the blend with strokes of rugged gray and brown.

The flock of Hume's White-eyes came and went in a din of high pitched 'tzeets' and flurry of movements, and their beauty surely could only be fully appreciated when one views thereafter their images.

An endearing moment.

A momentary wariness as the parent and juvenile sat out the presence of a foraging plantain squirrel.

And then another burst of flapping wings when they fled off.

Oriole beauty

 A beauty by any distance is still a beauty.

Not at its elegance best but its distinctness cannot be denied.

Perhaps a migrant

 The Oriental Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis)(Tiong Batu) could either be a common resident or a common migrant that breeds from way up north in southern Russia, venturing down through China and Japan to Southeast Asia and even all the way down to northern Australia.

 As it's not so common to sight it now in the taman, the appearance of this one at the start of the present avian migratory season could suggest it's a migrant.

Perching characteristically up high and making no attempt to go after any feeds, this bird further hinted of its status, perhaps too tired to move after newly arrived here?

The storks came by, almost

 Tis said, flying circling birds hold up the sky.

And indeed as I gazed up as these Painted Storks adorned the sky above the taman, adding some spice - the question was will they or will they not.  

And unfortunately they did not as they continued to circle dreamily and eventually flew away leisurely.

Not by size

One certainly couldn't say No to any photo-op of the resident Crested Serpent-eagle.

On this late morning, it sped in with a flourish after a noisy altercation and failed attempt at a catch, that I could deduce was at a myna as it was angrily squawked off by a flock of the same.

And there it was, ruminating on its loss before it eventually took off.

'Old' drongo acquiantance

 And we meet again, and it has grown further.

The juvenile Greater Racket-tailed Drongo now sports a pair of tail streamers, just about noticeable though, since when I last saw it about 3 weeks ago, 30 July to be exact.

Not an empty nester

The Pied Triller was not an empty nester.

Its young might have left the nest but seemed to hang on still (how it rings a bell here in the human world too).

The begging calls were unmistakable and it was a surprise to spot a very much adult looking female Pied Triller trailing after its female parent.

It landed only to take off again as the parent kept moving away.

Finally managed to catch up.

And a meal at last.

Looked like there was going to be a deprivation here, perhaps a message for the young one.

But the parent caved in eventually, and the catch was seized, swallowed, in less than the blink of an eye!

And then the chase resumed as the young triller went a-begging again.

A momentary rest.

And I thought best to leave with these rather adorable images of a juvenile than with images of a parent's over-indulgence.