Shot of the Day

20/4: Sparring Spotted Doves

I was at the Botanic Gardens, walking along the path outside the frangipani garden when I heard the spotted doves cooing. I wasn't that keen to photograph them but nevertheless I went to check it out. I saw 2 of them, not sure whether a male and female of both males. They were on this frangipani tree. Sometimes they seemed to be at peace with each other, sometimes they fought. From the tree, they fought to the ground. I guessed they were to engrossed with fighting each other that they never noticed this human standing near them. Their fighting stopped when one flew up to another frangipani tree and the other went the opposite direction. Aren't doves suppose to be symbol of peace? Well, if the symbol of peace are fighting each other how do you expect humans to live peacefully with other.

19/04: Flying Lizard

Actually I was after a changeable lizard which was had something in its mouth. I must have frightened it to release the object. It ran away. When I went back to see what that object was, I saw this lizard lying on the ground with it's "wings" opened. It's the first time I saw a flying lizard in the flesh. This one was very co-operative. It never ran away no matter how close I got to it. Maybe it was stunned by what it went through just now. When observed closely, it looked like the dragons seen in movies. Maybe that's where they got inspiration from.

Moments later I saw this colourful bird at the same stretch of field where I found the flying lizard. I slowly crept up so as not to frighten it away to see what it was. It turned out to be a red jungle fowl, the ancestor of the domestic checken. Never expect to see it in the gardens. This is the male. The female is duller in colour. My legs were badly bitten by mosquitoes while photographing it, but it's worth it.