Indian white-eyes (Zosterops palpebrosus) are small birds, about 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) long. They’re sometimes kept as pets. Our friend Swami Krishnananda sent this series of images of these birds on August 8, 2019, and wrote, “Yesterday a flock of white-eyes landed on a tree below my room. Two of them started grooming themselves, grooming each other, sharing some sweet words of love …”

Photo by Swami Krishnananda.

“While there two birds called white-eye, there are four white eyes looking at you!!” wrote Swami Krishnananda.

And he wrote: “They were also looking at me as if to ask why I was intruding on them and what I was up to!! JAI GURU!!”