Mugimaki Flycatcher

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He looks so cute this little bird - I hope he catches his flies. Lovely work on the feathers.

Thanks Marjorie Firth ....

PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 519/541(Observe the Bird and recognize)..MUGIMAKI FLYCATCHER..[From a Photograph of MR. KAMAL MUDA] ... WATERCOLOUR ...A4...2015... The mugimaki flycatcher (Ficedula mugimaki) is a small passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the genus Ficedula in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. The name "mugimaki" comes from Japanese and means "wheat-sower". The bird is also known as the robin flycatcher. It is 13 to 13.5 centimetres long. It has a rattling call and often flicks its wings and tail. The adult male has blackish upperparts with a short white supercilium behind the eye, a white wing-patch, white edges to the tertials and white at the base of the outer tail-feathers. The breast and throat are orange-red while the belly and undertail-coverts are white. The female is grey-brown above with a pale orange-brown breast and throat. She lacks white in the tail, has one or two pale wingbars rather than a white wing-patch and has a