Another common bird here that is beginning to show up more in my garden. Birds are fascinating!
Gray-capped Flycatcher
Whirlabout Skipper
One of my favorite skippers has returned this year and here’s a couple of shots . . .
Check out all my Costa Rica Butterfly Galleries.
¡Pura Vida!
And don’t forget!
Art Show at 105 Roca Verde #2
This SATURDAY, 24 June, 9-12 am
Cash, PayPal or Bank Transfers only
15% OFF All My Books
for the next two days, June 21-22, 2023 by using the Discount Code: BSTORE15 when checking out from the Blurb Bookstore. Check out all 79 of my photo books with the most recent on top and save 15%! Go directly to my bookstore at: https://www.blurb.com/user/cdoggett or click this image of the first page:
And by the way, I will have 14 of my photo books available this Saturday, 24 June, at my Coffee & Art show at my house, 105 Roca Verde #2, 9-12am! See you there! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
5 Birds in the Canopy
With rain finally coming every afternoon, I’m also seeing a few more birds other than the Yigüirro (Clay-colored Thrush) singing his heart out to beg for rain says the tradition. Well, he finally succeeded, and though 5 species in one morning walk is an improvement, it is still not a lot of different birds compared to my past experience here. All were in the shadows of the canopy leaves of different trees with only this Yigüirro having direct light, but here’s the five birds I saw the other morning even if not good photos . . .
Recent Butterflies
Though I’m not seeing as many as last June, the variety of butterflies is slowly expanding in my garden. We got almost no rain in May and now it rains every afternoon, which is normal for rainy season, but if anything different this June it is maybe more rain than last year, which may or may not affect the number of butterflies. And I’m also getting fewer birds. Here’s photos of 5 different species seen in the last week.
Your Invitation – Su Invitación
Juvenile Iguana Sunning
There seems to be more than one juvenile iguana, at different stages of development, living in or near my garden. I think that the main reason they climb my Cecropia/Guarumo Tree is to soak up the sunshine, which all reptiles need as cold-blooded creatures, but as a herbivore, he may also be eating from the leaves and flowers of this tree. The flowers of this tree are also popular with toucans which I’ve photographed in this same tree. Plus the toucans also eat young iguanas! 🙂
See my two Iguana Galleries:
I think these photos are of a Spiny-tailed, but juveniles of both species are similar, so I’m not certain.
¡Pura Vida!
And don’t forget!
Art Show at 105 Roca Verde #2
This SATURDAY, 24 June, 9-12 am
Cash, PayPal or Bank Transfers only.
Art Show at My House Next Saturday!
One week from today! Anyone in Costa Rica is invited to my casita to view all of my many photo-art items that are available here now. I spent about $5,000 getting ready for a new art gallery that was to open June 15 in Atenas that did not open for various reasons. Now I’m stuck with piles of art work in my tiny casita with no storage space. So almost everything must go! And all is PRICED BELOW MY COST!
COFFEE & ART
9-12 am, Saturday, June 24
Come & Go as you please
105 Roca Verde #2
See photos at: ATENAS ART GALLERY AT MY HOUSE
INCLUDING:
¡Pura Vida!
Wall Art Available in Atenas
I will always prefer that you order wall art directly from my online Photo Gallery which is hosted by SmugMug.com who uses professional printers to print each of these, whether on paper, canvas or my new preference of “Float-mounted Metal Print.” I ordered each of these from my gallery.
There are 11 new ones ordered especially for the new local gallery that did not get established, plus about that many more I already had. You can see them online in two places:
- Wall Art Images in a sub-gallery in my big Photo Gallery on SmugMug.
- Or on this website at: Art Gallery at My House, but you have to scroll down past the floral accent pillows which I listed first with wall art second. Everything available is presented there on one page, while in the galleries there is a separate sub-gallery for each category.
The feature photo is one of the bigger images, a sunset from Cancun with Costa Rica on that horizon! 🙂 And below is one of the four Red-eyed Tree Frog photos available.
¡Pura Vida!
Coffee & Art, June 24, 9-12 am
Come and Go as you please! – ¡Ven y Vete como quieras!
The Enchanting “Golden Shrimp”
One of my flowers that’s blooming well now that our rainy season finally started is what is popularly called the “Golden Shrimp” Flower or sometimes called the “Lollipop Plant” with the scientific name of “Pachystachys lutea” and Spanish names of “choclo de oro,” “camarón” o “Camarónes” en Costa Rica.
¡Pura Vida!
And a post on my Wall Art Metal Photos available next week in Atenas will be coming later today! In preparation for my June 24 one-man art show called “Coffee & Art,” 9-12 am, Saturday, June 24. Don’t miss it!
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