Bird of prey - having a bad hair day? 😀 Yikes - that rhymes !!!

"Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day."
Mark R. Woodward

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We all know the feeling when we get grumpy on a bad hair day - right? I guess this Crested hawk eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus) felt so too - especially when he saw me click his picture 😀

Bad hair day buddy?
My own click

I could understand his plight. It is all nice to have that crest and all and feel like a king. However, at best of times, even while sitting still with no wind, those tall feathers just are rowdy. They fall all over the head, in no particular order.

That chaos makes this majestic bird look slightly funny! Sort of like a cross between King and court Jester 😀

King or court Jester?
My own click

The bird always tries to look very serious and hold it's crest high. When it succeeds, it does look majestic and kind of fearsome too. Like in the click below...

Majestic and fearsome with crest held high
My own click

However, what can the eagle do when it flies! It is cool to feel the wind whistling through it's hair I suppose but the 'Windswept' hairstyle all but makes the crest invisible as it flies!

The 'windswept' look
My own click

It looks like any other eagle I guess then.

Poor thing - no doubt it feels frustrated about it's crest. I do not blame it for being in a grumpy mood. Look at the eyes even as it flies - soooo grumpy and serious!😂😂

Enough joking around though. This is a serious raptor, a bird of prey that has awesome prowess. I respect it for it's looks and admire it's wing span as it soars high overhead.

Majestic wingspan - who cares about the hair!
My own click

It is always a pleasure to watch and not at all easy to photograph. I, therefore, love it - irrespective of whether it's crest is in dis-array or not! 😀

Hope you all do too. Please feel free to let me know your opinions. Please comment freely.

Have a great day everyone

A big thank you for support

Thanks to c/hive-106444 (Feathered friends community) for providing this wonderful opportunity to present my experience and photographs. Thanks to @barbara-orenya and @melinda010100 for all the support and encouragement to this community. Special thanks to @nelinoeva also for starting the Species hunt initiative. My posts are not exactly in that format but have all the necessary info and Good original Photos. Further guidance will be very much welcome.

Thanks to HIVE for this wonderful platform. Thanks also to @adalger and @dna.org for encouraging me by recognizing some of my posts as worthy of Densifying nature project.
Further, thanks to Amazing nature community for welcoming me and showing me their love on some of my posts.

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Note: All images and collages in this blog are created by me, based on photos clicked by me personally and/or free vector images from Pixabay
Quotes used, if not credited, are either from unknown authors or are proverbial old sayings.

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