This Rufous-backed Wren (my gallery link) stopped in one of my Nance Trees, not for a berry (wrong time of year) but for an insect snack out of the little Air Plant growing on the tree. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Snack at the Air Plant Cafe
Fence Post Fungi
Thanks to neighbor & friend Judith LaBelle for finding these fungi on a fence post across the street from my house by the cow pasture just yesterday!
I have submitted both fungi to iNaturalist where I will hopefully get an identification soon. The genus and family identifications I’m using on the photos are from the AI on iNaturalist and I’m glad the AI doesn’t force an identification but accepts a broader genus or even broader family when not certain. Google Lens just keeps going with possible IDs, though in their first paragraph on the Shelf Fungus (Bracket Fungus) did agree that is is most likely in the Hexagonia Genus as iNat says; while on what iNaturalist calls mushrooms in Family Hypoxylaceae, they got more specific with a species name that I will learn later if an expert on iNaturalist agrees: Lens called them “Afred’s Cakes” or “Cramp Balls” (2 common names) and the species name “Daldivia concentrica.” All are fungi! 🙂
Pale-banded Crescent
A tiny little creature who stays close to the ground and on ground cover flowers like this. Not my first sighting, but first one this year. Formerly called Tulcis Crescent; see more photos in the Gallery: Pale-banded Crescent, Anthanassa tulcis.
¡Pura Vida!
Devil’s Trumpet
I found this on one of my walks to town and continue to be surprised with new and unusual species of flowers and just about everything else in nature! 🙂 Just two shots with different looks plus a shot of a “seed capsule” that I saw on the bush 2 weeks later, with the flowers gone . . .
Bijao
Pampano, Calathea lutea (iNaturalist link) is called Bijao in Spanish (common name) though my gardener calls it “Bijagua” which is name also used for a similar big-leaf plant that in English is called Rattlesnake Plant, with a flower like the rattles of a rattlesnake, while this plant has flowers sort of like cigars, giving it the English common names of Cigar Plant (my blog post in March showing the “cigar” flower) or Cigar Calathea. Back then the wind had shredded these big beautiful leaves which look nicer now. These leaves are used by some restaurants to wrap food or serve food on.
Green Pastures
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures” (Psalm 23).
I thank God daily for allowing me to live in a peaceful place surrounded by nature and the great outdoors with unlimited aspects of nature to photograph. Praise God from who all blessings flow!
“How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures”. ~Psalm 104:24
And of course I have a Cows Gallery of my photos from all over Costa Rica. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
October Flowers
I saved what photos of flowers I made in my garden this month to share all at once on the last day of October. So below this introductory photo for the emailed version of the post is a gallery of 14 different flowers, just one shot of each species with 2 of those being wildflowers or “weed flowers” some will say. 🙂 That includes the intro photo below! Enjoy! As I have enjoyed the flowers and remember that I have a photo gallery of “My Home Gardens” (linked) that I keep adding photos to every month, thus it is always fresh or has new photos. 🙂
Seeing Red!
“Red is uplifting.”
– Jerry Lewis¡Pura Vida!
See other reds in my garden in My Garden Gallery.
Lesson’s Motmot
Is still coming around in September and I’m glad! I think he is one of the most elegant of the birds here!
See my gallery: Lesson’s Motmot, Momotus lessonii
¡Pura Vida!
Chestnut-colored Woodpecker male
Photographed on my last morning in Tortuguero (yesterday) and these are probably my favorite bird photos bird photos from this trip. 🙂 Chestnut-colored Woodpecker, Celeus castaneus (linked to my gallery. I’ve seen this unusual woodpecker only one other time and that was in the South Caribbean, at Manzanillo. Tortuguero is in the North Caribbean. It is found from Mexico to Panama. And this is my first time to see a woodpecker eating a flower! 🙂
