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When trying to photograph that tiny little butterfly on the left of that rock in my garden I discovered later that I instead got a silhoutte shadow of a hummingbird flying above the butterfly. 🙂 Not great, but an interesting surprise when going through the photos. 🙂
Just a little serendipity! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
And now I will try to focus on nature in June, right here in my garden! 🙂 I started May still processing photos from April and I finished May with blog posts scheduled through this one today, June 10. Yes, I’ve been staying ahead about a week and a half or 10 days on writing the blog posts while coordinating the useable photos for not only the blog, but I post the useable ones in . . .
And though it may seem like I shared a lot of butterfly photos in May, there were a lot more photographed! I got 45 species of butterflies in my garden in May! At least two species were new ones for me. And I’m having trouble keeping up with them all! 🙂 It is like I don’t need to travel to get photos, but I look forward to some different animals in my July rainforest trip when I celebrate my 85th birthday.
Now, here’s those last two birds in May . . .
is now one of my three regular hummingbirds along with the Rufous-tailed and the Blue-vented that surf my Porterweed flowers all day along with an occasional other flower and my feeders when filled (not often). Their second favorite flower seems to be the Torch Ginger or Bastón de Emperador. Both of these shots are of a female (white chest and white eyebrow) while the male has no white and thus I could be confusing him with the blue-vented which are very much alike.
Vultures are so common all over the world and so important to the health of the planet! And I just can’t resist trying to photograph one every once in a while! 🙂 This common one here is a Turkey Vulture, Cathartes aura (my gallery link) is the same one you see in the United States. I think they are beautiful when flying, though their underside is always in the shadows! 🙂
You might be interested in my other galleries on different vultures both here and other places I’ve lived/traveled . . .
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Had I been going there for birds like I used to, it would have been earlier, like 5:30 or 6 am! But even during this 8-10 am best time for butterflies, I saw a lot more than 3 birds, but this is all I photographed on Calle Nueva that morning, plus the Yellow-faced Grassquit (May 15 Post) in the cow pasture as I was getting back home. 🙂 Here’s the three other birds I got photos of on that nearby dirt road . . .
See my Inca Dove Gallery.
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“K,” my landlord up the hill from me came down the other day with a baby Chachalaca on his shoulder which their gardener found when trimming some trees. It was tiny then! And has bonded with the human family as his “mother” or family. They are hoping that when he can fly, he will fly off with the other Chachalacas. I hope so too! A large, adult Chachalaca will not make a good pet nor would it be good for the bird! We will see what happens. I suggested that another possibility is to take him to Rescate Animales in La Garita which recues wild animals and their babies. I’ll post a report when something significant happens. Here’s 3 cell phone pix:
Link to my Chachalaca Gallery, Ortalis cinereiceps.
¡Pura Vida!
Not new to me or Atenas where I live, the Yellow-faced Grassquit, Tiaris olivaceus (linked to eBird) is a type of seedeater (the beak says that) and in this case prefers grasses which you can see the male chewing on in that photo. It is a Latin American bird found throughout Central America, in the Caribbean Islands and the northern edges of South America.
In my GALLERY: Yellow-faced Grassquit you can see that I’ve photographed this bird multiple times in Atenas, where I live, plus once in Monteverde and once near Volcán Tenorio.
These shots of a male and a female I got on my return walk back from Calle Nueva searching for butterflies last week. I got the female first in the cow pasture in front of my house where I also saw the male but had to follow him to a neighbor’s yard to get this shot of him . . .
The female shots are my first of a female Yellow-faced Grassquit, unless that one juvenile or immature in my gallery was a female! 🙂 And I am very pleased with this FEMALE shot (a portrait for the gallery!) . . .
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. . . for my resident Rufous-tailed Hummingbird. And of course this Torch Ginger is just one of the many “Flower Restaurants” where he eats as I purposefully do not have feeders filled every day. It is more natural and healthier for the birds to eat from flowers. Here’s three shots from the other day in my garden . . .
This Clay-colored Thrush, Yigüirro (my gallery link) was still singing after the rains started in April but they are here for sure now, almost every afternoon or evening, and he no longer needs to sing in the rain! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
One of the common birds in my garden is the Rufous-backed Wren, Campylorhynchus capistratus (my gallery link) and here he is in the rain the other day, perched on a dead tree in a neighbor’s yard.
¡Pura Vida!