Striated Heron

 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae - Butorides striata (Pucung Bakau Biasa)

A small heron that is widespread and common across South America, as far north as Panama and southern Costa Rica. Small size and overall gray color separates from most other herons and bitterns. Look for contrasting dark cap, distinct pale edges on wing feathers, and white and rufous stripes on front of neck. Juvenile streakier below than adult. Similar to Green Heron but note mostly gray neck, usually with rufous restricted to the front and sides of the neck. Juvenile is much smaller and more slender than juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron, with long streaks on the chest and spotting restricted to the wings. Normally solitary, found standing quietly around wetland habitats such as marshes, agricultural fields, rivers, and lakes.

(eBird)

Mystifying, undetectable, yet ever present, ever giving.

What comes and goes

What comes and goes

What stays and moults

Mere cycle in a journey.

 

Dive into thoughts

Bird moment:
Dive into thoughts
Swim with ideas
What dreams are made of
and beauty created.

"The most beautiful experience ...."

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.”

Albert Einstein

"That each day I may walk ...."

That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted.

Egyptian tomb inscription

"Nature always returns to balance ...."

“Nature always returns to balance.  It may have extremes – the waters can bring us drink and food or they can wipe us out in a flood – but there is always calm after a storm, always day following night.  When we pattern ourselves after nature, we try to achieve balance in ourselves and all we do.”

"He who binds to himself a joy ...."

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.

"Eternity", William Blake

"God never ...."

God never made His work for man to mend.

John Dryden