I’ve decided to make Fridays a Flying Friday day. That means that I’m going to showcase some kind of flying creature – birds, insects, bats… – that I’ve seen and hopefully photographed every Friday.
And because I like looking at other people’s pretty and/or interesting pictures, too, I’d love it if you joined me. Please leave a comment with the URL (permalink) to your blog post featuring a flying creature, hopefully with a photo.
Back to the scheduled program… 🙂
No, I’m not sneezing, nor am I going to suddenly break into a polka.:D Nope, a Polkichcha is a type of bird. It’s also called the Oriental Magpie Robin, Southern Magpie Robin, or, more academically accurately, Copsychus saularis.
Personally, I had no idea there were such things as magpie robins. Magpies, yes. Robins, oh yes. But magpie robins? Definitely new for me. 🙂
It is said that “even today people fear to listen to their cries with awe and repugnance foreboding evil or which portends death.”
Poor, poor maligned leetle birdie. 🙂
The Oriental Magpie Robin was formerly classified as a thrush, but now is considered an Old World flycatcher and are found in tropical Asia. In case you didn’t know, Sri Lanka is a part of tropical Asia. 🙂
I think he’s cute and he’s certainly a welcome – and frequent – visitor to the garden outside my kitchen window. He frequently visits while I cook and, quite honestly, he keeps me entertained.
Here is my magpie robin
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I LOVE this idea! Alas, in Memphis downtown I see only pigeons and very rarely a sparrow. Granted, I do also see flying plastic shopping bags floating on thermals outside our 17th floor windows. *rolls eyes*
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Loved your pic of the magpie robin taking a bath. That’s one thing we don’t have – a bird bath. And honestly, I’ve never seen a bird taking a bath before, although I know they must, given how popular bird baths are in some areas.
I vote you photograph whatever’s flying, including the garbage bags. 😀
Hmm, you’re right, of course. We have curd pots and old clay cooking pots. I would have thought they’d be too small, but I guess not. Hmm… 🙂
Garbage bags can be used to make circoflex kites. As for bird baths. An old curd pot or a discarded play cooking pot is all you need.
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