Stork-billed Kingfisher

Coraciiformes - Alcedinidae - Pelargopsis capensis (Pekaka Paruh Besar)

Massive kingfisher with a large scarlet bill. Head is olive-brown with dark green-blue upperparts and buff underparts. Wings and tail bluer, with rump even paler blue, obvious in flight. Juvenile has dusky edges to feathers of breast and hindneck. Vocal in breeding season, giving a loud, far-reaching “peu-peu-pow” whistle, while its regular contact call is a loud laughing “ka-ka-ka” repeated 6-10 times. Prefers large streams, rivers, and the edges of large water bodies with vegetated banks.

(eBird)

Another natural,  yet, sometimes not entirely desirable.

 

* Three treasures - mercy, frugality, not to be foremost in all things *

- beware excessiveness -

What's a different

What's different - an eye blink, a dive, a perception moment.

It's the same, really.

 

Steer, navigate, confront

Steer, navigate, confront

demons, shadows, fiends

Sun shines eventually

Moon lights too.

 

It's a long story.

It's a long story.  You don't have to listen.

You too have a story.  I don't have to listen.

But do not turn away.  Do not despise.

Everyone has a story, a journey travelled.

We may not need to listen, suffice to know everyone has a story.

Be kind.

When it's over

When it's over, no looking back

no yesterday, no more,

Give yourself today, and tomorrow too.

Bare it

Bare it
but fear
Life hovers over
the stale, the sour, the flat.

A little some thing

One lovely evening

Wild and free

A little some thing
A thing we missed
A thing we dismissed
And beauty whizzed past. 

Colour of energy

Bird tale:
Colour of energy
in stillness or motion,
Of being as is. 

A difference

Bird tale:
A difference
does not it different,
but can make a difference,
as black and white are different
yet of the same.