We went back to Trinidad after 5 yrs and stayed at the Asa wright nature center, Arima, again. A lot of things have changed there in 5 yrs, all of it for the better at the center. One thing hadn’t changed much, the… Continue Reading “Rain trance”
Category: Environment, Phlog, Photography, Travelogue, tropical birdsTags: Asa wright Nature center, birding, birds, Dance, Hummingbirds, Nature photography, Rain, Rainforest, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, White-necked jacobin, Wildlife art, Wildlife photography
Especially in the tropics, where most things are good and I never could focus on mosquitoes anyway. Here is a violet sabrewing and and wild flower called Pachira Aquatica, Costa Rica. The flower, as the name suggests was growing by and practically on the… Continue Reading “Focus on whats good”
Category: Photography, TravelogueTags: Aracari, birding, Costa Rica, depth, Flower, Focus, Hummingbird, Jungle, Nature photography, Pachira Aquatica, Palm leaves, Rare, River, Shallow focus, Travel, Tropics, Violet Sabrewing
Posted on March 16, 2016
by neuroticphilosopher
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Here are some of the birds we saw in CR, these look like they were in the middle of a thought..
Category: Environment, Photography, Travelogue, tropical birds, World CultureTags: birding, Birding tour, birds, Boat-billed heron, Bright-rumped attila, Costa Rica, Crested Guan, Emerald toucanette, Endangered birds, Great Curassow, Green Honeycreeper, Green kingfisher, Green violetear hummingbird, Herons, Honeycreepers, Hummingbirds, Kingfishers, Laughing Falcon, Nature tour, Northern Jacana, Olive throated parrot, Purple honeycreeper, Rare birds, Rarely seen, Trogons, tropical birds, Vulnerable birds, Wildlife photography, Woodpeckers
Posted on January 21, 2016
by neuroticphilosopher
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It has been months since our return from Costa Rica, and as I sort through photos and wait for the right day that I feel up to the task of making a photo gallery (instead of a trip report this time), I lag further… Continue Reading “Collared Aracari (and its berry)”
Category: Environment, Photography, TravelogueTags: Aracaris, Berry, Big bill, Bill, birding, birds, Collared aracari, Costa Rica, macro, Macro photography, melastoma, nature, Photography, Red yellow and black, Tortuguero, Toucan, Travel
Red-headed woodpeckers greeted us as we took the way towards the Big Salt Marsh in the Quivira wildlife refuge, Kansas. They were very common and everywhere I saw undulating flight and white wings, it was them. I would have to say my favorite woodpeckers… Continue Reading “Red headed woodpeckers”