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Most of my photos of this species and most in online systems show side views of the Broken Silverdrop, Epargyreus exadeus cruza (my gallery link) with this top view being the second top view on both iNaturalist & BAMONA, so a unique photo! And I have 2 top views in my gallery! 🙂 The feature and two other photos here . . .
Still one of the most common birds in my garden is the Rufous-backed Wren, Campylorhynchus capistratus (my gallery link). These two shots were made in September in my garden . . .
¡Pura Vida!
This past Saturday I had the privilege of being invited as the only non-family member to my driver & friend’s daughter’s birthday party along with both sets of her grandparents, aunts, uncles & lots of cousins! I did not take my camera, but made a few rough shots with my cellphone. Below are just 3 shots with many more in my online GALLERY: Montserrat-3-Años-Feliz-de-Cumpleaños. All of the cousins and family reminded me of my childhood with many get-togethers with cousins & all.
All but two of the teenager cousins conveniently had to leave after lunch 🙂 thus none of them in the photos. And one of my blurry photos I used as the feature photo calling it my “Art Photo.” 🙂 Translation: Piñata Pandemonium, but guess that is obvious! 🙂
A more frequently seen “Yellow” than the one shown yesterday is this Dina Yellow, Pyrisitia dina (my gallery link), though this one is still just one of many! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
This is a new yellow butterfly for me this year with sightings in my garden in July, August & September as shown in the gallery Marcellina Sulphur, Phoebis marcellina. There are many different yellows as you can see in their “Family Gallery” of my photos: Pieridae – WHITES, YELLOWS & SULPHURS (40 species). I will never tire of all the unique species of butterflies found here in Costa Rica and the almost continuous finding of new species like this one. Tomorrow I will share a photo of a more common Yellow seen here, the Dina Yellow. But here is just one photo of the Marcellina Sulphur . . .
¡Pura Vida!
At first I had these two photos lumped in with the Great Kiskadees, but eBird’s AI helped me realized that they have bigger bills and are shaped slightly different as Boat-billed Flycatcher, Megarynchus pitangua (linked to my gallery). Not as frequent but the last few in my gallery are from my garden. One photo . . .
¡Pura Vida!
One of several birds that I’m seeing more of now, the Blue-gray Tanager, Thraupis episcopus (my gallery link) lives all over Central America and the northern half of South America and is found literally everywhere in Costa Rica except the highest altitudes. He is similar to the grayish-green Palm Tanager and I have a lot of photos in the above linked gallery. Pictured here in my garden.
¡Pura Vida!
This is the species that lives in my garden and is the most common squirrel in Costa Rica (with 7 subspecies) and I see them in most places I visit here, including different colors. In my gallery you can see my photos of 3 other species as well as this most common one, each species in their own gallery 🙂 . . .
Just this one photo here. Go to gallery for more.
¡Pura Vida!
One more little book for this year, a 7×7 inch book of 41 nature quotes by famous naturalists printed on my nature photos. A good gift for the naturalist in your life! 🙂 And another creative outlet for me! 🙂
See a free preview of book by clicking above cover image or go to this web address: https://www.blurb.com/b/12572121-quoting-nature
¡Pura Vida!
And because I’m almost two weeks ahead on blog posts, I will just send this one out as an “extra” post now. 🙂
Seen in my garden before, another big brown, fuzzy Skipper that at times seem like the majority of the butterflies! 🙂 I’ve had this one in my garden one other time, back in 2023 as shown in my gallery: Wind’s Skipper, Windia windi. (Linked to the gallery.)
