Rao Jodha Desert Park

'Write!' exhorts the Muse

while I seek an excuse

or wait for the right cues

from fitful trips and birding news.

So to Rao Jodha desert park

floating above Jodhpur's raucous bark.

Puzzled by the ID of a confusing lark

yet snaffling a spotted flycatcher ere dark.

Searching for the elusive crimson tip butterfly

its unceasing flight rather than being shy

thwarts attempts at photographs I try

rewarded finally when patiently still I lie.

A lizard emerges from a rocky chink

snake-eyed lacerta or common skink?

As criss-crossing rivulet-riven pathways link

perches the crimson dropwing a dragonfly pink.

Crimson-tip 

Spotted Flycatcher

Lacerta or Skink?

Crimson Dropwing

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