Compound wildlife

A few pics from around the compound over the last month or two:

Interesting flowers.

Blue Tiger.

Tree Pie.

Yellow-billed Blue Magpie.  There were some of these nesting behind where the
SWH project is.  When a cat comes along they take it upon themselves to warn
the whole neighbourhood.  And then hound the beast out of the area by dive-
bombing it.

Looks like one of those glow-in-the-dark plastic beasties.

There are lots of young birds fresh from the nest at the moment.  This Indian
Myna hadn't quite worked out what its wings were for yet.  The other day we saw
a couple of adult Black Drongos encouraging their 3 sulky offspring to budge
off the wire they were determinedly clinging to and fly.  With little success.

One of our semi-resident bug catchers.

All that was left of a Common Peacock after some bird had had a large and
tasty snack.

And the underside.  I think I'd like a rug like this.

A beast of a bee.

Now this is a proper sized thistle!

Finally, a not completely blurred pic of a Paradise Flycatcher.
Its love of shady overgrown places combined with its hyper-
active nature do not make it an easy photography subject.
It's fairly amazing to watch hunting, with a fantastic hovering
ability, as you'll see in the 2nd half of the video below.  His
oddly unmatched mate is chestnut-y red and without the tail
streamers, but equally aerobatic.

Another beast of a bee.