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260) White Chested Babbler
White-Chested Babbler, Trichastoma rostratum, Rimba Dada Putih
Resident bird found in Peninsular Malaysia and Southern Thailand. Usually occur in small streams in rainforest up to 200 m SL. List as totally protected and maybe nearly threatened.
Rimba yang ini lazimnya boleh dijumpai di kawasan anak-anak sugai di dalam hutan atau di pinggir hutan bersempadan sungai. Ia bergerak mencari makan di antara pokok-pokok yang rendah di kawasan tersebut sambil menyanyi.
This was a very fortuitous encounter. Our front door was open and so I could hear a commotion outside. I looked outside to see a pair of Long Tailed Tits that were completely bemused by their own reflection in my car window. I quickly raced upstairs to grab the camera, changed lenses and raced back down again. I slipped outside, and thankfully they were so preoccupied that they barely noticed me. It went on for about 10 minutes as they constantly flew up to their reflection, fronted up then flew back into the bush and then repeated the whole thing over and over. Facinating to watch!
The soft warmth of a rising sun on a late fall day spreads across a metal clad barn boarded up close by its companion of many decades. A small group of pigeons huddle together on the rusted top of a silo roof emitting calm coos that dance across the stillness of the morning.
Though the scene begs for the long lost sounds of livestock and maybe a tractor or two roaring to life, there will be none. Life has moved on. But to an observant old farm boy, thoughts of fall mornings from his childhood quickly run back as though they are eager for a reunion and perhaps even a re-enactment.
Memories for most people become our go-to pleasure bucket, especially when present day life is difficult. Two types of memories are easy to recall, the special good ones and also those that still produce a shiver when we think about them.
Decades ago when my life was filled to the brim with raising our family and trying to hold our heads about water financially, I took great solace in building a library of several thousand volumes. There were five levels of painted wooden shelves that stretched the length of our lower family room.
After a few years I noticed a familiar pattern. When I went to lock for a book from the shelves, I almost always searched for a book from a chest high shelf as it was the easiest to reach.
When many of us recall memories to ruminate on, we often find those from our adolescent and early marriage years the easiest to recall. There are probably reasons for that which are beyond me but I have often thought the first couple dozen years of our lives cover the deeply influential years of growing up with parents who influenced us in many significant ways but now are gone.
Along with our parents, for those of us who grew up in a small tribe, those years also represent the efforts of our siblings to pound us into some semblance of respectability that we retained for the rest of our lives.
Those memories of youth are stored on the chest high shelves of our hearts.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Following the River Dee upstream towards Carn Cloich-mhuilinn (still very hidden in the cloud) in the Cairngorms. Part of a long but fabulous day hiking to Beinn Bhrotain and Monadh Mor from Linn of Dee.
Chester in May 2019.
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A little high key tabletop photography - more chest nuts from the tree down the road!
(c) Dominic Scott 2020
P1150775 Market, Beziers, France
No idea which specific uniforms these are - I'm guessing they are mostly French - but maybe also German. I stayed in the hotel in the main square that was used by the Nazi command in WW2.
Anyone have any ideas?
The white-chested babbler is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Scientific name: Trichastoma rostratum
Phylum: Chordata
Higher classification: Trichastoma
Part of my "250 Years in Chester" set - www.flickr.com/photos/58696328@N04/sets/72157628164944467
Moray House on Watergate Street, plaque on building says built circa 1850 so that's accurate enough for me.
Don't know any history on this one, will need to do more research.
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The white-chested babbler is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Scientific name: Trichastoma rostratum
Phylum: Chordata
Higher classification: Trichastoma