Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Not today

The occasional visitor here is unbelieving when I say things are unusually quiet today. Where are those famous trucks? And those wild parties next door where women pretend to be Basantis and the men twirl their mustaches? What of those choppers slicing the air and the politicians whose convoys honk at and scatter the stray dogs in their path?

They're all there. Just not on a day when these creatures were around. Just not today.









Ludwig, help out with exact taxonomies. I have a vague idea they're bee-eaters or sun birds or something.
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7 comments:

  1. kmTue Mar 10, 06:40:00 PM 2009

    Spring is a beautiful thing.

    //and I feel like listening to Miles Davis' "Springsville".

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  2. Space BarWed Mar 11, 09:43:00 AM 2009

    km: de spring is sprung, the grass is riz.

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  3. kmThu Mar 12, 05:04:00 AM 2009

    But NO whitewash in anyone's eye.

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  4. dipaliThu Mar 12, 10:32:00 AM 2009

    The shiny purple one is a sunbird.
    The pictures are awesome. Thanks.

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  5. Space BarSun Mar 15, 10:18:00 AM 2009

    dipali: thanks. :D long time no see.

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  6. AnonymousMon Mar 16, 10:31:00 PM 2009

    They are both species of sunbirds.
    The first and second are male purple-rumped sunbirds.
    The third pic has a male purple sunbird and a female of the same species.

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  7. Space BarTue Mar 17, 05:05:00 PM 2009

    Varali: thanks! i kind of knew about the yellow-brown one but wasn't sure about the other.

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