Light during the rains and it is also raining birds

The light during rains is usually indescribable. It has that soft quality of a muted yellow that somehow just gladdens the heart. I think I had previously called it butter-popcorn-yellow and yes it is, it somehow becomes a background against which everything stands out, beautifully. The yellows look yellower and the reds look redder. I think I also had a poem on it. 

rain-grey skies
the red of the gulmohar 
even redder

Now let's come to the part about birds. Where I live right now, (having moved in back with the parents for a while), there is a small water body behind the house, and yes dense greenery as you can see, right in front of the building. So which means I get treated to different kinds of birds (water birds essentially).

So far I have been treated to a brown-breasted kingfisher, several milky-white-rin-washed egrets, and also a plethora of parrots! 

I didn't realise there were so many sub-species in parrots. There are the ones with a blue tinge to their wings and tails: they are the Malabar Parakeets. Then there are the ones with large red-bindi spots on their wings as they take flight: those are the red-winged ones and there are ones with a tinge of yellow too (need to find out what those are called)! :)

There is also the fan-tail with her sweet song, prancing around; there is the magpie robin, with its repertoire of sharp, clear whistles that echo across the skies. 

Then there are the barbets, masters of disguise, with their bright green plumage and red beaks, who camouflage themselves amongst the red and green of the banyan usually (banyan has red figs, fruits that match the red of the barbet's break). You can usually hear their puk-puk before you can spot them. They are not called coppersmith barbets without a reason, they run quite the smithy :)

Then there are the hawks, a crow pheasant, (also called a bharadwaj or called as the great coucal), they have a beautiful auburn-chestnut plumage and so pretty to spy.

A symphony it is: visual and aural... :)

And that's it from me for now :)

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