This Morning in the Garden
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| White-winged Dove In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
One of my favorite things to do is to sleep until I wake up, shower, eat a liesurely breakfast on my terrace admiring flowers and the visiting birds. So, after a busy, early, hard day hiking yesterday, I had one of my relaxed mornings today (23rd) and recorded part of it in the above photos. There were other birds and more flowers, but this is a good sample for today.
Tanagers at Sarapiquí
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| Summer Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-winged Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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Palm Tanager
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
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Passerini’s Tanager
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
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| Gray-headed Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds
Birds at Cerro Lodge
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| Cinnamon Hummingbird Cerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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| Turquoise-browed Motmot Cerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica My first to see in Costa Rica, though I saw many in Nicaragua. |
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| White-tipped Dove Cerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica I almost called them Inca for the scaling, but white tips on tails ID them. |
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| Warbler of Some Kind (I’m pretty sure but hard to ID) Cerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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| Hoffman’s Woodpecker Cerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager Cerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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| Boat-billed Flycatcher Cerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica Several flycatchers look similar, but the bill and red cap ID this one. |
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| Melodious BlackbirdCerro Lodge, Tarcoles, Costa Rica Very similar to Bronze Cowbird which has red eyes an this one doesn’t. Only the Melodious Blackbird has everything black, eyes, bill, feet. |
I’m saving the birds photographed at Carara National Park for tomorrow since I got a lot at the lodge and the park was my last stop before going home. Some nice birds at the park this time! Better than my last trip there.
My 8 Tanagers in Nicaragua
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| Golden-hooded Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua Note in next photo how different the same bird can look! |
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| Golden-hooded Tanager, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua I know it looks a little different, but is the same species as above. |
| Crimson-collared Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow-winged Tanager, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| Summer Tanager, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow-crowned Euphonia, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| Passerini’s Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Gray-headed Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Blue-gray Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Sorry for a repeat of the Crimson-collared Tanager, but this tanager collection wouldn’t be complete without it and it is my favorite shot of the whole trip as stated earlier! And apologies for some pretty poor photos here, but my bird collection is primary over photo quality. 🙂
I am really pleased with this collection of 8 different species of tanagers in Nicaragua since I only have 3 species in my Costa Rica Birds collection! Soon there will be a separate photo gallery of my Nicaragua birds and I’ll eventually do the same for Panama, Guatemala and Mexico. A Central America collection! 🙂Blue-gray Tanager
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| Blue-gray Tanager in my Yellow Bells Tree It is the fattest, bluest, and grayest I have seen of this species. |
| Singing for me! I’m surrounded by bird music all day! |
If into birds, here’s a List of the Birds of Costa Rica (894) and of course they are not all big colorful toucans, macaws and parrots, but we have those too! This tanager was shot during lunch on a cloudy, gray, overcast day.
And oh yes, I forgot to tell you that a hummingbird got into my house the other day. I was so busy opening screens so he could get out that I didn’t get a photo before he flew away. They are occasional visitors in my garden, though not as many as the butterflies. And a some of the flower blooms are gone now for awhile, so it will be up and down.
Two New Birds & Balcony Shots
This afternoon I photographed birds from my front balcony for the first time. Got two repeats, Great Kiskadee and Scarlet Tanager but also two new ones, Blue-gray Tanager (you can see in aviary at Nashville Zoo Unseen New World) and tried again to photograph one of the several flocks of parakeets that fly over very fast every afternoon. Nearly impossible to photograph, but here’s a fuzzy image!
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| Blue-gray Tanager at Hacienda La Jacaranda, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Someday maybe a good photo of these regular flyovers. |
| Rocking Chair for the retired old man! My front balcony. |
| Back Balcony where most birds are photographed. |
Today after Spanish Class I tried a different super market, Maxi-Pali, which is a longer walk but has some things The Coopeatenas doesn’t and has cheaper prices on a few items. They also stock some Walmart house brand products, so guess who probably owns them? It is kind of like it was in the states, I’ll now probably use both some, but the closest is the easiest, so we will see. Also ate at another new restaurant for me that does not have a web presence and I just wrote the first review on Trip Advisor, so nothing to link to now, but that link is to my list of reviews and Olivera will be up in a day or so. It is Pizza Olivera, on the square or Central Park and they deliver, so I will probably use the delivery when Kevin is here. It was very good pizza I thought. I got a personal size Supreme and a liter tropical juice drink for $5. I will return! Like most restaurants here, the dining area is covered open air with views of whatever, this time Central Park with old men on benches, children running and playing, and a teen rolling slowly by on a skate board. Just an ordinary little farming town with lots of happy people! 🙂 It is still fun to be here and to be walking everywhere!






































