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This “hummer” is still the dominant or most seen hummingbird in my garden. But with still fewer flowers than normal this year, all of my hummingbird are also looking elsewhere for flowers, because I just do not fill the feeders regularly. Here are a couple of recent shots in my garden. For more photos go to my GALLERY: Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl.
I’ve not seen as many Satyrs this year as in the past, but maybe they are starting to appear now. In my BRUSHFOOTS Galleries you can see that I have photographed 22 different species of Satyrs (at the end of that folder) and this White Satyr, Pareuptychia ocirrhoe (my gallery link) is one of the more frequently seen species for me. Just this one photo from my garden last Saturday . . .
¡Pura Vida!
This fly photographed on an outside wall of my house is the Moscas Carroñeras, Flesh or Carrion Flies (linked to iNaturalist CR).
See my growing gallery of interesting insects at More Insects CR. It’s titled “more” because there’s a whole folder of galleries on Butterflies & Moths of CR and another one on Dragonflies & Damselflies CR. There is just so much nature to see and photograph here! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Continue reading “Carrion Fly”
The national bird of Costa Rica, believed to “sing in the rain” in April and May, beginning the Rainy Season. An ever present bird you can find in most of Costa Rica is one that I never tire of photographing. Just one shot from my garden a week or so ago.
See my gallery of Clay-colored Thrush for many more photos! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
This Zopherus jansoni (iNaturalist link) is one of multiple species of the Ironclad Beetle, this one found only in Central America and just photographed on my terrace. Here’s four shots from different angles . . .
The “Southern” in the name doesn’t refer to just the deep south of the U.S. but also to further south as in Tropical America (Central & South + Caribbean Islands) where you can also find this butterfly. See some more of my photos made here in Costa Rica in the GALLERY: Great Southern White – Ascia monuste. Here’s two shots of the same butterfly in my garden with different light, making it look like two different insects!
One of the birds that is almost always somewhere around the garden! See more of my photos in the Gallery: Great Kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus. Just one photo today . . .
¡Pura Vida!
This Gray Cracker, Hamadryas februa (my gallery link) is one of 5 different species of Crackers I have photographed in Costa Rica, every single one on a tree trunk, and they can all be seen in my Brushfoot Galleries. This one landed on my Cecropia Tree the other day for just a few seconds before flying off, with me getting only two shots at an angle. And yes, I know that he is not literally “gray,” but the previous one photographed that was even more of a tan color. He is identified by specific spots and not the overall color. Just one shot . . .
¡Pura Vida!
And that is my first impression of these male & female Hoffmann’s Woodpeckers, Melanerpes hoffmannii (my gallery link). But these days everybody looks young to me! 🙂
What I (and others) have been calling “Rounded Metalmark,” I now believe are Calephelis laverna (scientific name), Laverna Metalmark, Calephelis laverna (my gallery link). A Google AI summary of searches on the differences in Rounded and Laverna Metalmarks show the wing patterns to be almost identical with possibly “minor differences in genitalia and primary difference being the geographic distribution.” With Rounded Metalmarks found in Texas and Mexico and Laverna Metalmark (some sites use just “Calephelis laverna”) residing in Central America and parts of South America, especially noted in Costa Rica by the AI. Thus I am moving all of my Rounded Metalmarks to Laverna. Here are two photos of the one seen in my Garden Wednesday (side view & top view) . . .
