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Both my gardens and ones I visit
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| Rufous-naped Wren Resting in a Cecropia (Guarumo) Tree With nesting material from a Nance Tree For the nest being built in my tallest palm tree. Atenas, Costa Rica |
And more birds in photo gallery: Costa Rica Birds (238 Species)
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Squirrel Cuckoo
My Gardens, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica
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| Squirrel Cuckoo My Gardens, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Squirrel Cuckoo My Gardens, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
Another breakfast visitor off my terrace, in the Nance Tree where the yellow berries are ripe. The underside of the long tail is beautiful but this one would never show it. This shot at Cañon Negro Reserve shows it somewhat. And there are other shots in my Costa Rica Birds Photo Gallery though he doesn’t seem to often show off his bright tail.
¡Feliz Dia de Mamá!
Happy Mother’s Day!
A national holiday with almost everything closed today and
most mother’s getting a lot of attention from their families.
15th of August every year! Regardless which day of the week.
The restaurant I ate in today had tables of 8 or 10 honoring Moms.
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| ¡Pura Vida! |
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| Inca Doves My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
This young couple will probably soon mate and will be partners for life. Read more about Inca Doves at Cornell University’s All About Birds.
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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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| 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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| 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!
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| Pale Spotted Swallowtail Maybe Or could be Red Spotted Purple Or Female Tiger Swallowtail Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Banded Peacock Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Chisos Banded Skipper Atenas, Costa Rica |
AND a great big yellow one (maybe a Sulphur) who would never land for a photo! 🙂
See my photo gallery of Costa Rica Butterflies & Moths
And see my photo book: My First 50 Butterflies in Costa Rica Review for free.
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Happiness is a butterfly,
which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| I haven’t been sharing the bouquets I pick for the house, but this one was different than most, so thought I would share. Atenas, Costa Rica |
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask?
