A flowerpecker cares less

There was merely a moment of hesitation when it spotted me, and then it quickly finished off its find.

Flying further away there was another treat waiting.

Even as I approached and stood close to it, this young female Orange-bellied Flowerpecker simply turned the other way, squashed the fruit to its desired size and swallowed it.

And remember to 'brush' your bill after meal.

 

Be like the nightjar

 A stoic put-up was what the slumbering Large-tailed Nightjar did when a troop of large-tailed macaques of at least three generations broke up the quiet noon hours.

It hardly batted an eyelid at the approach of the noisy swinging troop until the very last moment when one was practically above it.

Did it flap angrily, was it flustered, it looked more like a dignified annoyance at the intrusion.

Being no match for the 'manysome', it simply fluttered down to another branch.

Now wide-eyed, it still kept its calm as it watched warily, and we homo sapiens shamelessly took advantage of the situation to get opportune shots of this taman's icon that rarely opens its eyes during the day, trying quietly to manoeuvre round the tiny window in the intertwined lower foliage.

And of course, it had to take time for the leaping and swinging primates to clear through its domain, provoking another protest from the avian.

On the alert as it watched the young and old macaques practically scrambling about left, right, high and low.

Finally some peace and quiet as I checked in an hour later, its amazing composure during the almost 20 minutes of harassment still fresh on my mind.

still very much a drongo

 My very first thought, as I approached, was it was perhaps an avian migrant, until another angle revealed a newly grown tail streamer.

An outcast (?), a misfit (?), one week later it was still alone perched on the same tree, this time its lone tail streamer has extended and the other no where in sight.

As I was passing by

 

Thanks for the display!

Not by design

as we are so we do

 

Bulbul goes splish-splashing

Too tempting not to dip in ....

Excuse me my rudeness!

Ahh, yet a swirling yellow vent to cover the 'rudeness'.

First flycatcher arrival