Flights of Fancy eBook Excerpt: Mountain Shrike Spotted in Maligcong

The Lanius family is well represented in Maligcong, as I keep finding out, after first spotting it at the backyard of the Banaue Ethnographic Museum last November.  I was trying to spot a Malkoha in the vicinity of what the Maligcong locals call the "Lonely Tree" near the jump-off to Mt. Fato when I spotted this black and white creature perched on a distant tree.  Well, nature is unpredictable indeed -- it can give you something you didn't expect instead of what you are searching for in the first place.  For that, I am thankful.  | © 2019 Oggie Ramos • Taken with a Nikon B700, Manual Mode, Handheld