Showing posts with label spectacled spiderhunter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spectacled spiderhunter. Show all posts

04 May 2026

Red-eyed Bulbul

 Passriformes - Pycnonotidae - Pycnonotus brunneus (Merbah Mata Merah)

Nondescript plain brown bulbul with dull red eyes. Buffy brown vent distinguishes it from similar red-eyed form of Cream-vented Bulbul. Has neither the olive wing patches of Olive-winged Bulbul nor the streaked ear coverts of Streak-eared Bulbul. Red eye is not surrounded by the orangish eyering of Spectacled Bulbul. Forages primarily in the middle and upper levels of forest, often with other species in mixed flocks. Song is a relatively monotonous series of upslurred whistles.
(eBird)









What we ignore is still existent, still fact - does it affect, that's the matter.


30 June 2025

Spectacled Spiderhunter

 Passeriformes - Nectarinidae - Arachnothera flavigaster (Kelicap-sabit Besar)

Large spiderhunter with thick yellow eyerings, a yellow ear tuft, and a long decurved bill. Yellow eyering and cheek splotch serve to distinguish it from most other spiderhunters. Yellow-eared Spiderhunter is very similar but noticeably smaller, with a narrower eyering, faint streaking on the breast (versus plain), and a slightly longer, more slender bill. Found in lowland and foothill forests, where it forages actively in the upper levels. Calls include harsh chip notes.
(eBird)




How big the eyes
How harsh the call
How yet so endearing.


Lost and found
again and again
Sheer luck 
for a little more gotten too.



06 September 2023

Emptiness's function

 



Heaven [and] earth are not humane.
They regard the ten thousand things as grass-dogs.

The holy manis not humane.
He regards the hundred families as not grass-dogs.

Heaven [and] earth of [between] the space,
it is like unto a bellows indeed.

[It is] empty and not, it collapses
It moves and more and more issues.
A gossip frequently is exhausted
Not likely will he keep the middle [path].








05 February 2017

"Our task must be ...."

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.


Albert Einstein