Showing posts with label Nuthatch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuthatch. Show all posts

28 August 2026

Velvet-fronted Nuthatch

 Passeriformes - Sittidae - Sitta frontalis (Pepatuk Dahi Hitam)

One of the few nuthatches to break the general neutral color scheme of the family, this stunner can be quite common in lowland and foothill evergreen forests. Aquamarine upperparts, crimson bill, and black patch on the forehead make this active little species unmistakable. Forages by creeping along trunks and branches, often upside down. Often moves in groups, frequently as a member of mixed-species flocks. Song is a high-pitched chittering trill; calls like isolated fragments of song.
(eBird)











Cut to the chase - know what is, what is more, what is less.



11 July 2026

Blue Nuthatch

 Passeriformes - Sittidae - Sitta azurea (Burung Patuk Gunung)

Not the only blue nuthatch, but the bluest nuthatch. Unmistakable, with a dark head, pale eyering, white throat and breast, and dark-lined pale blue feathers on the wings. Gives quick, sharp, nasal “tzwp” or “tzwit” notes. Clambers up and down tree trunks, often in small parties; frequent member of mixed-species foraging flocks. Favors montane and hilly forests.
(eBird)




Time as motion and rhythm stand still, only, in rapt attention.

20 September 2023

Easy by nature

 




Superior goodness resembles water.
Water well (in a good way) benefits the ten thousand things,
yet not it quarrels.

It dwells in all the people their place which is loathed.
Therefore it approaches to Reason.

For a dwelling it chooses the [level] ground.
For a heart it chooses the eddies.
In generosity it chooses humaneness.
In words it chooses faith.
In government it chooses ability
In its movements it chooses time. [rhythm]

Forasmuch just as not it quarrels,
therefore not it is rebuked.



12 June 2023

Humility's virtue

 




"Humility's virtue"
When a great yields to a small, and a small corresponds fittingly, both benefit.


06 September 2022

"As you wish."


"... just as it is ...."





"... wabi ... when you are not well-off, you have no thoughts about being so; ...."



 

01 February 2022

happiness is a path



a blast, a flush
happiness


happiness
sometimes a blur
sometimes momentary
enough is runneth-over





happiness
still here








 

20 April 2018