“Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.”
~Akiane Kramarik
¡Pura Vida!
TRIP GALLERY: May 2022, Chachagua Rainforest Hotel
“Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.”
~Akiane Kramarik
¡Pura Vida!
TRIP GALLERY: May 2022, Chachagua Rainforest Hotel
On one of the small lakes or ponds at Chachagua Rainforest lived a family of Muscovy Ducks (eBird link) which are native to Central & South America plus Florida & the West Indies. For the second time I’ve been able to capture these resident ducks with babies. Everyone loves little ducklings! 🙂 See some more slightly older Muscovy Ducklings I photographed at Macaw Lodge near Carara National Park in my Muscovy Duck Gallery. Now here are 3 more photos from Chachagua Rainforest . . .
Continue reading “Muscovy Ducklings”Yes, the above water plants are floating on a lake in Chachagua and living on the nutrients they gain from the water as do the plants below call “air plants” that live on the nutrients from both the tree (or vine in this case) and the water in the very humid air of a rainforest. A gentle reminder for us to drink our 8 glasses of water a day! 🙂
Continue reading “Living on Water!”Great Kiskadee, Lake Nicaragua |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua |
Common Tody Flycatcher, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Social Flycatcher El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Dusky-capped Flycatcher, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
See my gallery of Nicaragua Birds
Montezuma Oropendola El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Montezuma Oropendola El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Montezuma Oropendola Lake Nicaragua near Granada |
Montezuma Oropendola Nests Lake Nicaragua near Granada |
About Montezuma Oropendola on Cornell’s NeotropicalBirds site where you can listen to them sing their unusual bubbly sound.
Purple Gallinule Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Common Gallinule Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Common Gallinule
Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua
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American Coot Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
American Coot Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
About the Purple Gallinule on Cornell’s “All About Birds”
Northern Jacana Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Mangrove Swallow Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Spotted or Stilt Sandpiper Coloring most like stilt (in book) but legs and beak seem short. Juvenile? Or could it be a Western or Least Sandpiper? Pectoral? Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Tricolored Heron Flying, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua See another Tricolor on my Herons Post |
Laughing Gull Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua See another one on my April 1 Post, sitting on a post |
Neotropic Cormorant Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Neotropic Cormorant Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Neotropic Cormorant Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
About Northern Jacana on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site
About Mangrove Swallow on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site
About Sandpipers on Wikipedia
About Tricolored Herons on Cornell’s “About Birds” site
About Laughing Gull on Cornell’s “About Birds” site
About Neotropic Cormorant on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site
And in my photo galleries of Costa Rica Birds:
Northern Jacana – Mangrove Swallow – Spotted Sandpiper – Pectoral Sandpiper – Neotropic Cormorant
Osprey Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Gray Hawk
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Swallowtail Kite El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Turkey Vulture Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Black Vulture Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
White Chinese Goose Selva Negra Mountain Resort |
White Chinese Goose Selva Negra Mountain Resort |
From our boat we see a falcon with a duck. Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
The Peregrine Falcon lands with his Blue-winged Teal We thought he would eat it there but . . . Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Not liking us to watch I guess, he takes off again with the dead duck. While flying over the water he drops the duck. Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Blue-winged Teal picked up by my guide, Moises Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Many flocks of Blue-winged Teal on lake around us and . . . Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Flying by us with Mombacho Volcano in background: Blue-winged Teal Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
One never knows what serendipity encounter you will have with wildlife when walking or boating in the wilderness! But it seemed to happen frequently in Nicaragua, a very good trip!
“It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold
About Blue-winged Teal on Cornell’s “All About Birds” site
Snowy Egret flies in to Tricolored Heron Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
Little Blue Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Green Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Black-crowned Night Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Tricolored Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
Snowy Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Snowy Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
Great Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
The end of a thing is better than its beginning; The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.