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Final Birds in May & About May Photos

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 . . .

  • My photo gallery: Charlie Doggett’s COSTA RICA+
  • I now post all my nature photos for future research on iNaturalist (linked to my posts with a map of where photographed in CR.
  • I am still putting butterfly photos also on butterfliesandmoths.org (linked to the Costa Rica Region where I’m the primary contributor).
  • And I still post bird photos on eBird of course! You may have to add my name to see my postings there: charliedoggett.

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 . . .

Tropical Kingbird, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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One of the Cicadas

In running these two photos through the iNaturalist, this insect is definitely in the Fidicina Genus (with about 30 species of Cicadas in CR) and though not an exact match, the closest species I could find was Fidicina toulgoeti which iNaturalist says has never been observed in Costa Rica (only Ecuador & Brazil), soooo, I will submit it to iNat just as the genus and see if one of the “bug experts” can identify it. If they agree with my suggested species, then mine will be the first observation of it in Costa Rica! 🙂

It was seen on the Cecropia Tree in my garden . . .

One of 30 species of Cicadas in Costa Rica, observed in Atenas, Alajuela.
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Calle Nueva Birds

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 . . .

Inca Dove, Calle Nueva, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica

See my Inca Dove Gallery.

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His Singing Did It!

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! 🙂

Yigüirro or Clay-colored Thrush singing in Atenas, Costa Rica as the rains start!

¡Pura Vida!

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Variegated Squirrel

This Central American squirrel is endemic to Costa Rica north to Southern Mexico and is the squirrel species that lives in my garden. In this photo he is dining on a portion of the Cecropia flower in the Cecropia Tree adjacent my terrace. He scurries through all the trees much more than the iguana and is a part of the garden wildlife that keep me entertained. See more of my photos of this guy from all over Costa Rica in the GALLERY: Variegated Squirrel or Ardilla Chiza (español), Sciurus variegatoides (scientific name). ¡Pura vida! 🙂

Variegated Squirrel, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica

¡Pura Vida!

P.S. – Landslide blocks road yesterday!

One of the preferred routes between Atenas and Grecia . . .

COPY OF A WHATSAPP MESSAGE TO A GROUP I’M IN.

This happens on a lot of roads here, even the big highways, because to cut costs they did not cut the hills back far enough when constructing the road initially. Maybe its a case of “you get what you pay for!” 🙂

¡Pura Vida!

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Black Spiny-tailed Iguana

This one in my Cecropia Tree seems to be shorter and fatter than most. 🙂 (Maybe he’s a pot-bellied old man like me!) 🙂 See my other photos from many places in my Gallery: Black Spiny-tailed Iguana. Or if you are a dinosaur-lover, you might like the mother gallery of that one: LIZARDS! Or maybe more-so, the CROCODILIANS! 🙂

Black Spiny-tailed Iguana, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica

¡Pura Vida!

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Rufous-backed Wren

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.

Rufous-backed Wren, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica

¡Pura Vida!

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Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

This tiny little guy is still the self-appointed king of my garden, doing his best to chase other birds away. But I still get the other two species of hummingbirds some, just mostly on the flowers and not the feeders.

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica

My photo gallery for Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, the most often seen hummingbird by me, all over Costa Rica. 🙂

¡Pura Vida!

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Yigüirro still singing . . .

. . . for the rains to begin. And hopefully that will be any day now! (And maybe before this is posted, since I’m scheduling posts about a week ahead now.) 🙂 The National Bird of Costa Rica, known in English as the Clay-colored Thrush, is I think a handsome bird, even when not singing all day like he does every April. Here are three recent shots of different individuals and you can see more in my Gallery: Clay-colored Thrush, Turdus grayi. 🙂

Yigüirro or Clay-colored Thrush, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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Anything for a Parrot Pix!

Or it seems that I will do anything for one! 🙂 That is why I like going to the nature lodges where you can get closer to such colorful birds. Well, here are my step by step procedures for one of those many that come near my house (plus waiting for a blue sky!) 🙂 . . .

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