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This is another new species for me! And I keep finding them in my own garden! The Common Mylon – Mylon maimon (linked to Wikipedia) is found from Mexico to Argentina. One of the many Skippers. And on iNaturalist Costa Rica my observation is only the 13th in Costa Rica and I’m only the 10th person to report seeing one. But one of those others has the best photos I’ve seen and on his own website: Dr. Heiner Ziegler, MD (Switzerland). Costa Rica attracts nature lovers from all around the world!
This is my first one seen this year, but you can see photos of others photographed in the past plus a few more from this sighting in my garden in my gallery: Simple Patch, Chlosyne hippodrome.
¡Pura Vida!
Tomorrow morning I will post the last of the August nature sightings from my garden, though not all that I saw in a very productive August for nature photos! 🙂 Then tomorrow night I will do my first nighty post from Tortuguero National Park, “The Amazon of Costa Rica,” where I will be for 4 nights, posting a lot of things I can’t from home, including monkeys, maybe a sloth and of course lots of waterbirds, lizards, crocs & caiman, plus hopefully much more! 🙂 There are always surprises!
¡Pura Vida!
. . . is on the powerline overlooking the meadow where he feeds on the grasses. I’m seeing more of him this year. For more photos, go to my gallery: Yellow-faced Grassquit, Tiaris olivaceus.
Is another new species for me this month, right here in my own garden! And I’ve had two sightings of this “another brown Skipper!” 🙂
It is said to be found from the southwestern U.S. to Argentina, but only two of us have posted photos on iNaturalist CR and only two on BAMONA. So it must be a little rare! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
This colorful bird is not always around but seen more this year than usual and the other day in my big Strangler Fig or Ficus Tree, called a Higuerón in Spanish. See more of my photos in the gallery: Lesson’s Motmot, Momotus lessonii. Interestingly to me is that since February 2022 (when a counter was added) I’ve had more than a thousand visitors to that gallery. 🙂 Just this one photo here . . .
¡Pura Vida!
Another nice Skipper Butterfly is this Broken Silverdrop, Epargyreus exadeus or Epargyreus cruza (my gallery link) a unique butterfly found in both Central and South America. Here’s two shots made recently in my garden . . .
One of my interesting garden lizards is this Black Spiny-tailed Iguana, Ctenosaura similis (my gallery link) who lives only on the Pacific slope of the continental divide. One week from today I will be in Tortuguero on the Caribbean Slope where I will definitely see some of the Green Iguanas, similar but different. Watch for those photos next week. 🙂
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!
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