What Would a White-Eye Look Like After a Saturday Night?

The scene from the area where we eat each morning. Now it has gotten too cold to eat dinner outside but in the morning the birds, butterflies and bees are out of control.
Our home. It is a little bigger than it appears here, but not much. My only complaint of late is that our hot water hasn't been working. But Sage has just called one of the guys to look at it, and perhaps I will get my morning bucket shower after all!
This is the view, as I remember it, from Chicu and Keith's new place. Chicu requested a painting of their house, but I need to go there to do it - I want it to be more accurate than my memory will allow.

We saw a leopard! At night, on a long drive back from town, with one of the slowest drivers on earth, a leopard crossed in front of us and we got to see it cross through our headlights not once but twice! What a coat on that big cat! What a long sexy tail! We felt so blessed, and the driver just kept saying, "you are so lucky, we are so very lucky". The student in the backseat with the partial tear in her ACL said, "it has all been worth it for this!"

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We've been trying to take pictures of them, but it's difficult to get a good shot of a bird. So, an incomplete list of some of the birds we've seen (this is for you, Steve):

Great Barbet
Scimitar Babbler
Vivid Niltava
Himalayan Bulbul
Spotted Forktail
Red-Billed Blue Magpie
Slaty-Headed Parakeet
Greater Yellownape
Himalayan Flameback
Speckled Piculet
Great Slaty Woodpecker
Fulvous-Breasted Woodpecker
Crimson Sunbird
Kalij Pheasant
Blood Pheasant