Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

What's sought after may elude one as what's not sought after may be found by the other.

"Forever strive to accord with heaven's will and you will find much happiness."

(The Classic of Poetry)

 

Banded Woodpecker

It cannot be too much of a good thing when colours light up one's world. 

The brightly-coloured Banded Woodpecker with its rich dark red wings still commands a stop in one's track, as does this female with a comparatively plainer face to the male's orangey-colour.

The other beauty

 

Net-winged Beetle (Lycostomus marginatus)

Scaly-breasted Munia

There is boldness in numbers, so too oblivion in self-absorption.

And so none stands out, distinctive, inimitable.

And only these two stayed behind to brave their aloneness.

The other beauty

Google AI:

A green crested lizard sheds its skin in small pieces, not as a whole like a snake, and you might notice a duller appearance on their skin, indicating they are about to shed; this shedding process helps them grow and replace damaged skin, and they typically eat the shed skin afterwards as a way to regain nutrients.

When spotted, this Green Crested Lizard was perhaps in the midst of getting rid of the last of its old skin, and its prolonged motionless stance was only comprehensible when the calls of a nearby Green-billed Malkoha was discernible.

Escaping to the less open and exposed area of the leaf.

And when the coast looked clear, it returned to its original position.

Eating its old skin.

And on the watch again.

When all's clear, it moved on to resume eating.

An hour had passed already, and it's still unfinished business with bits of old skin still visible.

Looked like another attempt to finish off what's left ...

... only to look rather 'feminine' at best, off an incomplete task!

A rather handsome fella notwithstanding the offensive bit!

Changeable Hawk-Eagle

What's excitement, at an inanimate object that's a thing?

How's excitement, at an animate object notwithstanding its passivity?

 

A young Changeable Hawk-Eagle perched at the same spot with practically the same pose except for the occasional stretches, and nary a call heard, for more than an hour and a half before it suddenly dived down and away.