Day 14 - Bulbuls on our balcony!

Sometimes in the quiet stillness of midday, interesting birding things happen on our balcony. 

Red vented bulbuls (Pycnonotus cafer) - two of them - showed up.  Quietly.  No usual chirps and calls.  

I only noticed them because of the flitting shadows across the windows behind me.  Usually I hear the birdies before I see them.  

These two looked fatigued and thirsty, I thought, with open mouths and dull behaviour - there was water in the pots, they were not drinking though. Not foraging.  One looked thoughtful, sitting on a branch. Square, charcoal head, scaly chocolate-brown body and red vent.

The other sat looking though the closed window - I wondered was he/she looking at his/her reflection?  Or looking longingly at the insides of our flat?  Were they looking for some place cool?

Or were they looking for a nesting spot?  They nest between June and September, so this was a possibility.

I watched them through the curtains, and the pictures are through the glass, taken like a true furtive spy.  Alas, one over eager curtain move, and my cover was blown.  The bulbuls were off in the blink.