Short-tailed Babbler

 Passeriformes - Pellorneidae - Pellorneum malaccense (Kekicau Ekor Pendek)

Long-legged babbler with an almost nonexistent stump for a tail, found in primary and secondary evergreen lowland and foothill forest. Warm brown overall with paler underparts and a gray face with slightly moustached appearance. Upright stance and general profile make it seem almost pitta-like. Forages on or very close to the ground. Not as social as other forest babblers: typically encountered singly or in pairs. Calls are often dry and insect-like or mechanical. Song comprises a beginning phrase of dry chattering notes and a series of around half a dozen descending whistles.

(eBird)

Can you see it with no Name; what is it with no Name?

White-crowned Forktail

 Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Enicurus leschenaulti (Cegar Ubun Putih)

A typical forktail, with piebald plumage and long tail. Like most other forktails, it inhabits shaded whitewater streams, along which it perches on boulders and low-hanging branches. Unmarked black back distinguishes it from Slaty-backed and Spotted forktails. Can be confused with Black-backed Forktail, but unlike that species, white does not extend behind the eye. Often detected by its vocalizations, a harsh buzzing whistle and high metallic whistles.

(eBird)

Who name it, who call it out?

Can you not want it?

Pacific Swallow

  Passeriformes - Hirundinidae - Hirundo javanica (Layang-layang Biasa)

Common swallow of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, often in cities and towns as well as above fields, lakes, and forests. Adult iridescent blue above and grayish buff below, with orangish throat and forehead. Similar to Barn Swallow, which has longer outer tail feathers and a dark line separating the throat and breast, lacking in Pacific. Frequently perches on telephone lines, often with other swallow species.

(eBird)

At ease is where I choose to be, no matter where.

Rufous-browed Flycatcher

 Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Anthipes solitaris (Sambar Kening-karat)

Unique-looking flycatcher with a gleamingly clean white throat and a strong rusty orange tinge to the brow and forehead. Overlaps with closely related White-gorgeted Flycatcher but lacks that species’s gray face and black border to the white throat patch. Inhabits foothill and montane forests, where it forages close to the ground in lower vegetation. Both flycatches and gleans for prey more actively. Song is a high, thin series of whistles; a simple version is “tee-tee-tew’, to which additional phrases may be added. Vocal for a flycatcher, and calls often, giving harsh rattles, chips and chiks, and high thin notes.

(eBird)

Even the smallest count in cycle of more and less.

Streaked Spiderhunter

 Passeriformes - Nectariniidae - Arachnothera magna (Burung Kelicap Jantung Gunung)

A large and noisy inhabitant of tropical and subtropical hill forests. Distinctive in its range; a large spiderhunter with a long, curved black bill and black streaking all over its yellow-green upperparts and lighter yellow underparts. Gleans invertebrates from foliage, but also hovers around and probes into flowers for nectar. Often moves with mixed flocks. Calls frequently, giving a loud, decisive-sounding “chitick, chitick!”.

(eBird)

Who look back, who move back, who stay back - yet time turns not back?

Black-eared Shrike-Babbler

 Passeriformes - Vireonidae - Pteruthius melanotis (Burung Rimba Telinga Hitam)

Colorful small bird with a cartoonish large-eyed appearance. Luminous yellow underparts, yellow-green upperparts, and dark rust-colored throat are present in both sexes, but female is slightly paler and not as strongly marked as the male. Overall can be very similar to Clicking and Trilling Shrike-Babblers, but lacks any reddish coloration on the forehead, has a more extensive silvery brow and nape, and is darker overall. Inhabits foothill and montane forests, where it joins mixed-species foraging flocks. Song is high-pitched, rapid, and repetitive: “tweeweeweeweeweeweewee.”

(eBird)

For what you seek, maybe different, yet our path is similar.

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.