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Sunset is a powerful metaphor for life, reminding us that endings can be beautiful, providing opportunities to begin anew, and promising a new tomorrow. It encourages reflection, offering a moment of peace to appreciate God’s divine creativity and the hope of a new dawn after every closing day.

“BLOOD MOON”

March 3, 2026
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November's Beaver Moon is also a Super Hunter's Moon.

Someone said that November 5 delivers the biggest & brightest Supermoon of 2025, setting the night ablaze in golden fire.

Season of Creation 2025 theme "Peace with Creation"

Birds do not live carefree lives, as they face constant struggles for survival, including finding food, avoiding predators, adapting to environmental changes, etc.

"Birdwatchers take joy in not only seeing birds but in the entirety of the encounter experience with birds and nature in general.” - this is an excerpt from my son’s article in "The LaSallian"

*PALAWAN PEACOCK-PHEASANT
Scientific name: Polyplectron napoleonis
Local name: TANDIKAN (Palawano, Tagbanwa, Batak languages of Palawan)

It is a medium-sized (up to 50 cm long) bird in the family Phasianidae.
It is endemic to the island of Palawan in the Philippines.
It is featured prominently in the culture of the indigenous people of Palawan.
The bird is also depicted in the official seal of the city of Puerto Princesa.

The adult male is the most peacock-like member of the genus Polyplectron in appearance. It has an erectile crest and highly iridescent electric blue-violet, metallic green-turquoise dorsal plumage. Its breast and ventral regions are a velvety black. The flight feathers (rectrices) are wide, flat, and rigid; velvety black on the inner edges and an iridescent violet-blue-green on the outer edges. Their terminal edges are squared. The tail feathers are black with very fine golden-brown speckling. Each tail plume and upper-tail covert is marked with highly iridescent, light-reflective "eyes" (ocelli), each bordered by black and gray; they are also tipped in bands of black and gray. The tail is held erect and expanded laterally together with the bodies of the birds. The males also raise one wing and lower the other, laterally compressing the body during pair-bonding, courtship displays as well and may also be antipredator adaptation.

The female is slightly smaller than the male. Its contour plumage is cloudy silt in colouration. The mantle and breast are a dark sepia in coloration. The rectrices are essentially similar to those of the male, exhibiting marked adumbrations and stunning ocelli. Throughout, their plumage is earthen and difficult to distinguish from the substrate and branches. While it has similar proportions of the tail to the male, its markings are not as visually arresting. Like the male, the female has a short crest and is whitish on the throat, cheeks and eyebrows.

Chicks are vivid ginger and cinnamon hued with prominent yellow markings. Juveniles of both sexes in the first year closely resemble their mothers. Subadult males in their second year more closely resemble their fathers but the mantle and wing coverts are marked with adumbrations analogous with the ocelli in the contour plumage of other peacock-pheasant species.

Like other peacock-pheasants, Palawan males and some females exhibit multiple spurs on the metatarsus. These are used in anti-predator defense, foraging in leaf litter and contests with other males. The male Palawan excavates slight depressions in which it orients its body during postural display behaviors. The bird vibrates loudly via stridulation of rectrice quills. This communicative signal is both audible and as a form of seismic communication.
Palawan peacock-pheasants are strong fliers. Their flight is swift, direct and sustained.

Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size and limited range as well as hunting and capture for trade, the Palawan peacock-pheasant is classified as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. - Wikipedia

"Birdwatchers take joy in not only seeing birds but in the entirety of the encounter experience with birds and nature in general.” - this is an excerpt from my son’s article in "The LaSallian"

*PALAWAN SUNBIRD (male & female)

Read that the Palawan sunbird (Cinnyris aurora) is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae that is found on the islands of the Palawan group in the Philippines.
It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the olive-backed sunbird, now renamed the garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis).

"Birdwatchers take joy in not only seeing birds but in the entirety of the encounter experience with birds and nature in general.” - this is an excerpt from my son’s article in "The LaSallian"

Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park

The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is a protected area in the Philippines.
The park is located in the Saint Paul Mountain Range on the western coast of the island of Palawan, about 80 kilometers (50 mi) north of the city of Puerto Princesa, and contains the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River (also known as the Puerto Princesa Underground River). It has been managed by the Puerto Princesa city government since 1992.

It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 and voted as a New7Wonders of Nature in 2012. It also became a Ramsar Wetland Site in 2012.

A major tourist destination, it is mostly accessed through road trips to the seaside village of Sabang from where one of the many Bangkas (Kayaks) take visitors to the park. - Wikipedia

The Philippine Tarsier (Carlito syrichta), known locally as mawumag in Cebuano and other Visayan languages, and magô in Waray, is a species of tarsier endemic to the Philippines.
It is found in the southeastern part of the archipelago, particularly on the islands of Bohol, Samar and Leyte.
It is a member of the approximately 45-million-year-old family Tarsiidae, whose name is derived from its elongated "tarsus" or ankle bone.
Formerly a member of the genus Tarsius, it is now listed as the only member of the genus Carlito, a new genus named after the conservationist Carlito Pizarras. - Wikipedia

📍 TINAGO FALLS

It is a waterfall on the Agus River, located in between the town of Linamon and Iligan City, Lanao del Norte in the northern part of the Philippine island of Mindanao. It is one of the main tourist attractions of Iligan, a city known as the City of Majestic Waterfalls.

Tinago is a Filipino term meaning "hidden", the falls being hidden in a deep ravine. Trekking to the falls requires approximately 500 descending steps called the winding staircase.

The falls is high, its very cold waters cascading beautifully into a deep and calm basin-like pool which appears like a blue-colored lagoon. Under the falls is a small cave where people can enter and listen to the rumbling waters.

Tinago Falls is located in a deep ravine in Barangay Ditucalan, Iligan City. The falls plunges 240 feet (73 m) high from a cliff. - Wikipedia