Sexy Back - The Beauty of the Mountain Verditer Flycatcher Wing & Back Patterns

Eumyias panayensis | Mountain Verditer Flycatcher

Posted an earlier image of this beautiful bird I first spotted about 7 years ago in Maligcong, Bontoc in Mountain Province but has proven elusive until this year.   Posting another angle that shows the beautiful wing patterns of the Mountain Verditer Flycatcher (Eumyias panayensis) found in the subtropical or montane forests of  the Philippines and Indonesia.  Staus: Least Concern.  Backlit conditions required me to lighten up the shadows to reveal the subtle coloring of this bird, a lucky find especially as I was too lazy to go birding most afternoons. | For a checklist of birds found and catalogued here in the Philippines, visit the eBon link. (Many thanks to my buddy, Ironwulf, for letting me channel his Topaz post-processing powers to denoise the very noisy details of the image out of a Nikon Coolpix B700)

Giving Myself A Pat On The Back & Learning Lessons In Minimalism

I think I ought to give myself an overdue pat on the back for soldiering on feeding and caring for my foster strays for nearly three years. I know some people who love animals but wouldn't want to get a pet for they couldn't come to grips with losing them.  Well, I think I underwent a lifetime's worth of losing my beloved strays and for that, I'm giving myself a pat on the back. That I was able to do it for as long as I did (I intend to continue when fate intervenes and give me the resources and the health to do so), I thought I'm underselling myself -- getting up when I'm a bit too sick to do anything much just to cook, prep food, greet my fosters, feed them, and spend extra time with them.