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| Blue-crowned Motmot My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-crowned Motmot My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
Check out my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds with 235 species at this date.
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| Friday morning in tree behind my neighbor’s house. This is another juvenile Chachalaca among adults and kids chattering. Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Adult Gray-headed Chachalaca Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Adult Gray-headed Chachalaca Atenas, Costa Rica |
They were lower in the tree than at my house the morning before and thus a little easier to photograph when not behind leaves where they were most of the time! 🙂
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| I was walking up the hill to 214 to get my dinner from Chef Dan, At this driveway entrance (101) a German family was photographing something! I stopped and saw a cobweb stretched over the red plants. I pulled out my cellphone and opened the camera. Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| A butterfly had flown into a Golden Orb Spider Web and was already being eaten by the Golden Orb Spider. “The law of the jungle!” or “The food chain!” Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Another Golden Orb Spider waited nearby. Will he eat the leftovers? Or do they share? Atenas, Costa Rica |
Doesn’t this remind you of the giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest of the Harry Potter books? 🙂
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This was yesterday afternoon’s experience. This morning yielded another photo op which I am saving for tomorrow’s post. Never a dull moment in the Costa Rica Rainforests! ¡Pura Vida! 🙂
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| Heliconius Hecale Zuleika My home garden in Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| ¡Pura Vida! Costa Rica Flag Butterfly Art Not a real butterfly! |
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| Gray-headed Chachalaca juvenile Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Gray-headed Chachalaca Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Gray-headed Chachalaca Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Hiding in the shadows of taller Red Ginger plants & their own tall stalks, Cellphone photo of Zingiber zerumbet, also known as Shampoo ginger, bitter ginger, and pinecone ginger And my gardener calls it Moraca plant Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| CAN YOU SEE THEM? Left of center behind and below Red Ginger (click photo for enlargement) Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Clases Quilting y Costura = Classes In Quilting and Sewing Confeccion a la Medida = Dressmaking to the Measurements or Tailor Made Dresses |
I’m not needing my quilt here, but to some Ticos anything below 20° C which is 68° F is considered cold and we have most nights with that! Plus quilts are works of art! And of course homemade dresses are popular here.
Note of Interest: The Spanish word for quilt is el edredón but in Costa Rica they often prefer to use the English word for things like quilt, sandwich, jeans, and sometimes tennis shoes and more. And more specifically here with the -ing or “quilting” it would be la tela acolchada which would be worse! Easy names are pura vida!
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| For 2 years I refused to have feeders, only flowers. But gave in when Anthony left me with this feeder. I do see more hummingbirds, but only one species now. Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Like this juvenile Rufous-tailed, they do still eat from flowers, but not totally. Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| The Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds dominate the feeder. I believe there is a large family of them that had many babies. Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| This is an elder who may be in charge. Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| They even chase each other off the feeder or a “Pecking Order?” Atenas, Costa Rica |
I still have mixed emotions about using a feeder, though it does seem to keep more birds here year around. Not sure why I’m not seeing other species now which may be the work of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds chasing them off. I’ve thought about another feeder or two which most of the lodges I visit have even more of and many varieties of hummingbirds. We will see. I don’t like the extra work of boiling water and adding sugar every few days! 🙂 I’m lazy in retirement! And more feeders would mean more sugar water!
