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There was more than this, but these are the ones I have useable photos of beyond the birds and butterflies already shown. All wildlife is so interesting and varied anywhere you go in Costa Rica. One pix for the email announcement and then a gallery of all 9 photos.
My nature experiences in a Playa Cativo Lodge this past week did include more than the birds & butterflies that I love to photograph! Here’s a few that I was able to “catch” in the camera and of course the biggies like Jaguar and Puma are there but seldom seen by us humans, even on night hikes! 🙂
DISCLAIMER/POSTPONEMENT: I did this post last night and couldn’t finish processing my photo-folders of Crabs and of Reptiles that I intended to include here, so now those two categories will come later in a separate post. 🙂
And more . . .
Continue reading “Cativo’s Other Wildlife”
There were others of course that I don’t have photos of, like Howler Monkey I heard but did not see, squirrels, and the farm animals I did not photo like cows, horse, pigs, etc. So this is just a few with the Coati being the one seen the most! They are in the same family as the raccoon and can be bigger pests, especially for food! 🙂 CLICK an image to enlarge it.
See my CR Mammals Gallery.
¡Pura Vida!
On Christmas Eve, yesterday, my 5 year anniversary of living in Costa Rica I had a birding guide and got one “Lifer” (first time seen) bird, the rare White-tipped Sicklebill, plus a lifer mammal if you please! A Wild Tapir came right up to the restaurant building eating from the flower beds! 🙂 Though not new for me, I also got some more photos of a very rare Sunbittern! And all of the below photos from yesterday were made in the rain. It has not stopped raining for two days and nights now in this RAINforest. 🙂
I also got some interesting photos on the canopy tram ride which I will share in another post the next two days or whenever I return to the entrance for Wifi.
¡Pura Vida!
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| Malachite Butterfly Drake Bay, Costa rica |
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| White-faced Capuchin Monkey Drake Bay, Costa rica |
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| Red-tailed Squirrel Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica |
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| White-nosed Coati Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Agouti Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica |
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| White-lined Bat Mangrove Forest, Drake Bay, Costa rica |
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| Proboscis Bat (said guide) or Gray Sac-winged Bat Mangrove Forest, Drake Bay, Costa rica |
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| Land Crab Mangrove Forest, Drake Bay, Costa rica |
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| Spotted Dolphin Near Cañon Island, Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
My TRIPS Photo Gallery on this Drake Bay Trip
About Corcovado National Park (Wikipedia) and About Drake Bay (Wikipedia)
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| Charlie Doggett crossing Rio Celeste I sure have a lot of “Jungle Fun” for an old man! Its why I’m here! Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Welcome Sign
Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Merging of the Waters 2 streams merge & their minerals mix & turn the water blue. Fun! 30 meters upstream from the bridge photo above. Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Trailhead to Waterfall I Missed Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica Strong winds had knocked some trees over trail. Closed all 3 days there. It was interesting to learn that Bomberos (Firemen) would clean it up. And yes, some people went around the yellow tape anyway. Not me. Sendero Cerrado – Trail Closed |
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| And Every Tree is a Work of Art! Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Brown Wood Turtle Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica |
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| White-nosed Coati Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-eared Toucanet Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Yes, Much of Trail was this Muddy! Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica I always take two pairs of hiking shoes & one is still drying from cleanup! ¡PURA VIDA! |
You may be asking how it could be so wet when you are still in the “Dry Season.” Well, in a cloud forest like this it is always humid, misty, and sometimes raining, year-around. Maybe more so during the rainy season. Same goes for the coastal rainforests, while we in the Central Valley have two very distinct seasons. That is why the majority of the population lives in the Central Valley.
LITTLE CR EXTRAS:
History of Gallo Pinto (beans & rice in Costa Rica)
Starbucks Coffee Farm in Costa Rica
Another Reason to NOT have a Car in Costa Rica (Besides the high cost)
Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires! (Dry Season problem around the world!)
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| Mantled Howler Monkey male Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| White-nosed Coati Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Variegated Squirrel Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Black River Turtle Puerto Viejo River, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
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| Spectacled Caiman Puerto Viejo River, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
See also all my non-bird wildlife photo galleries at OTHER WILDLIFE
And this will be my last post on what I saw in Sarapiquí at Selva Verde Lodge. I highly recommend this lodge and spending at least 3 or 4 nights when you go!
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| Central American Agouti, a large rodent, Carara National Park, Costa Rica. |
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| Spider Monkey, Carara National Park, Costa Rica (baby on her back) |
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| Spider Monkey, Carara National Park, Costa Rica. |
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| White-nosed Coati, Carara National Park, Costa Rica |
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| White-nosed Coati, Carara National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Costa Rican White Bat Carara National Park, Costa Rica Cell phone through guide’s spotting scope |
We also passed the bridge where the week before my guide Victor saw a Puma resting. And we saw some howler monkeys but no photos. Most mammals here are nocturnal. Insects were more visible in the day but also more difficult to photograph.