Showing posts with label oriental magpie robin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oriental magpie robin. Show all posts

12 January 2025

Oriental Magpie-Robin

Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Copsychus saularis (Murai Kampong)

A medium-sized robin with a broad white wingbar running from the shoulder to the tip of the wing. Note white outertail feathers, particularly when in flight. Males sport black-and-white plumage while the females are grayish brown and white. Juveniles resemble females, but have a scaly head and upperparts. They have a good repertoire of melodious calls and are known to imitate other bird calls. The most commonly heard call is a whistle given at dawn. Most often seen singing from a high exposed perch. These birds are often seen in cultivated areas, open woodlands, and gardens.
(eBird)




A sub-adult, still unwary, foraging close up.





 



* Quelling war - victory never is if there is suffering
- do not beget at another's expense -



01 October 2021

When to take flight



Sound of aloneness
Colour of aloneness
Not with you
in noise.





When noise
takes flight
into solitude
but not aloneness.










 

02 November 2018

A difference



Bird tale:
A difference
does not it different,
but can make a difference,
as black and white are different
yet of the same.




23 July 2017

"Life is like a train of moods ...."


Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson



18 July 2017

10 May 2017

"What day is it ....?

What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favourite day,” said Pooh.
--> A A Milne