O! Thou Heavenly Creatures...

HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove! Thou messenger of Spring!
Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat,  And woods thy welcome ring. 
~ John Logan

Blyth's Reed Warbler

Delightful visitant! with thee  I hail the time of flowers,
And hear the sound of music sweet  From birds among the bowers.
~ John Logan

Paradise Flycatcher

What time the daisy decks the green, thy certain voice we hear:

Hast thou a star to guide thy path,  or mark the rolling year?
~ John Logan 

Egret

Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No Winter in thy year! 
~ John Logan

Chestnut tailed starling

Orange headed Thrush

I just want to stroke them, to see them glisten,

I want to see them alive,and to talk with them on my shoulders

But Impossible. They can't be touched,

they can only be felt like a heavenly whisper or movement,

~ Pablo Neruda

Purple Moorhen

O could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,
Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the Spring.
~ John Logan

Western Reef Egret

Tern in flight