More Hide & Seek Birds

At breakfast the other morning the wind had stopped and these two birds came to my Cecropia Tree, though reluctantly showing themselves, hiding in the glare of morning sun.

Yigüirro or Clay-colored Thrush, My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica
Red-billed Pigeon, My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica

“Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where the flight will take them.”

-Mark Nepo

See also my Costa Rica Birds Gallery.

¡Pura Vida!

I will be doing separate posts concerning my radiotherapy, though I hope for more nature to share from my month-plus hotel nearby! 🙂

Rain Pigeons

Well . . . actually Red-billed Pigeons, in the rain! But after a great response on my “Rain Trees” post, I may do some more rain-themed posts.  🙂

I was on my terrace waiting on the delivery guy to bring my once-a-week “meal out” now “meal delivered” from Parrillada Androvetto. I usually have a grilled rib-eye steak but tonight (Friday) I tried their grilled Chorizo sausage which was very good and not too spicy. Well, anyway . . .

It was raining pretty hard with all the birds hiding in the big trees under leaves and limbs except this one loving couple, sitting on the power line like it were a nice sun-shiny morning! Of course their overlapping layers of feathers keep their bodies dry, but it still seemed a little unusual to me. Not singing in the rain, though one was grooming. Blurry raindrops are ugly but the birds are kind of cool! Pura vida!

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Red-billed Pigeon

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Red-billed Pigeon

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Red-billed Pigeon

“Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

¡Pura Vida!

And my Red-billed Pigeon Photo Gallery

Red-billed Pigeon

A bird I have photographed on several of my trips and here he is in front of my house! For more information on this bird, see Neotropical Birds where you will see that he lives only in Central America & Mexico, not the big city pest the word “pigeon” brings to mind. And for some of my other photos of this bird, including last week at Xandari, see my Costa Rica Red-billed Pigeon Gallery with some better shots than these! Or the whole Costa Rica BIRDS Gallery for sub-galleries of 13 different species of pigeons and doves I’ve photographed here! An interesting & colorful family of birds!

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

~Oscar Wilde

¡Pura Vida!

Two Species Share Perching Space

Red-billed Pigeon

I watched these two at breakfast this morning as they perched together on that cable for the power lines. Maybe this dove and pigeon are role models that some North Americans need today. 🙂 Very different but happy together.

(Sorry, but I could not get a photo of them together with both in focus at my distance. They were like 6 to 10 inches apart but down the hill and across the street from me.)

White-winged Dove and Red-billed Pigeon are both common and plentiful here. Their name links are to online articles about each bird on the excellent Cornell Lab of Ornithology Neotropical Birds site. Also see these two and other tropical birds in my BIRDS Photo Gallery.

¡Pura Vida!

 

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. 

~William Bartram

El Copal Area Birds

Click an image to see larger. Here in order shot, no other priority.
Note: El Copal is a private reserve & closed on day we were there.
So we drove & walked the same forest around their property.
Broad-winged Hawk 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Red-billed Pigeon 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Lineated Woodpecker 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Passerini Tanager male 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Rufous-tailed Jacamar  
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica
First Photo for Me

Squirrel Cuckoo 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Tawny-capped Euphonia Eating a Berry
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Crimson-collared Tanager 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me in Costa Rica (1 in Nicaragua)

Black-cheeked Woodpecker 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Social Flycatcher 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Olive-sided Flycatcher 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Double-toothed Kite 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Southern Rough-winged Swallow 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Tropical Mockingbird with Flower Petal 
On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Tropical Mockingbird 
On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica

Great-tailed Grackle male

On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica

Meadowlark
On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me in Costa Rica (1 in Nicaragua)

Groove-billed Ani 
On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica

Black Phoebe 
On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. 
~E. O. Wilson


My photo gallery BIRDS

This exact same set of birds in my TRIPS photo gallery:  El Copal Birds
Or see all of my Orosi Trip photos in the TRIP Gallery: 2018-February 6-10–Orosi/Tapanti

Quiet Evening

I walked down to the river to see if I could find a bird to photograph and couldn’t, so a little shot of the stream running along the southern border of our property.

Rio Cajon just above the waterfall, 5:00 PM
Hacienda La Jacaranda, Atenas, Costa Rica

I did capture this Red-billed Pigeon in flight yesterday, though not good focus
Hacienda La Jacaranda, Atenas, Costa Rica
And tonight’s sunset clouds make a giant in the sky!
Hacienda La Jacaranda, Atenas, Costa Rica

We are now harvesting the first mangos from our property trees – hope they will be good!

First Four Back Porch Birds

Couldn’t wait until tomorrow! Posting just before I go to bed Friday night. All were photographed from my smaller balcony on the back side of the apartment. It is likely to be one of my main bird-watching spots. I have seen parrots and toucans flying over, but not close enough to photograph. All four of these are common in this part of the world and I have photographed before. Click image to see a larger version. I just checked my Birds of Costa Rica Checklist and two of these are new sightings for me and three are first-time photos. Progress! I will be adding my checklist to a webpage soon. I have now seen more than 100 birds in Costa Rica and photographed more than 70! And in my photo gallery Central/South America Birds I have more than 100 photos. I will create a separate Costa Rica Birds and Other Animals gallery one of these days.

Gray-capped Flycatcher
Red-billed Pigeon

Scarlet Tanager

Social Flycatcher