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Not good quality photos, but they show what you can see at Tortuguero and then tomorrow I will have some more small “land birds” to share. But here are my efforts to catch these last 4 water birds . . .
Something I’ve always enjoyed is catching a bird with live food like this Anhinga with a fish at Caño Negro Reserva on that river in the feature photo at top.
If all goes according to the doctor’s plans I am today at home still recuperating from surgery and hope to give more “live updates” in the next 2 or 3 days. Thanks for putting up with a week of “pre-scheduled” blog posts! I hope to be current again by the end of this week.
The Trip Gallery for the above two Photos:
December-2020 Arenal & Caño Negro
¡Pura Vida!
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| Squirrel Cuckoo Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Anhinga female Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-throated Toucan Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Amazon Kingfisher female Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Boat-billed Heron Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Laughing Falcon Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Red-winged Blackbird Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Social Flycatcher building a nest Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
And 9 more tomorrow night, then we start on Tenorio and more from the lodge. Tomorrow (Wed.) I ride the buses back to Atenas.
And my Birds photo gallery
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| Black-cheeked Woodpecker Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica Photographed from the Dining Room |
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I earlier posted a photo of a different woodpecker, the Pale-billed Woodpecker found behind my cabin at Selva Verde Lodge which is even more impressive! I was much closer!
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| Anhinga female Along the Puerto Viejo River Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
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| Anhinga Along the Puerto Viejo River Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica This is the typical pose of a male drying his wings, but the male neck is usually black, so this may be a female, though her neck is usually lighter than this. See other photo. |
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| Semiplumbeous Hawk Along the Puerto Viejo River Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
PERSONAL UPDATE: I’ve had what I thought was a bad cold for the last week+ or maybe allergies or sinusitis. Well it is probably volcanic ash that continues to fall over the central valley from Turrialba Volcano which won’t quit belching smoke/ash.
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| Little Blue Heron chick Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Little Blue Heron Momma near the above nest Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Great Egret Nests on one of the mangrove islands Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua The majority of the nests were Great Egrets, but other birds mixed with them. |
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| Great Egret Nests are very close together! Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Great Egret mother and chicks Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Great Egret Chicks (the closeup you wanted to see) Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Boat-billed Heron & Chick Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Boat-billed Heron Juvenile Learning to Fly Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Tiger Heron Chick Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
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| Anhinga Chick (we saw Momma nearby, the only Anhingas seen) Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Leon, Nicaragua |
Wow! I’m having fun! There are so many neat places like this for short and brief trips and this is just the beginning of bird photos from these two days. There will be many more the next few days and some other animals and interesting sights too! So much to see!
And don’t miss my Nicaragua Birds photo gallery for 98 different species!
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| Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
From our Tortuguero Trip last week I have already shown photos of 3 Species of Toucans, a Sungrebe, a Red-lored Parrot, and a Snowy Egret. And here are about 15 more species that I got photos of plus of course seeing others. You can see why I love Tortuguero! And a few of these were first-time sightings for me which will be added to my Birds of Costa Rica Photo Gallery.
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| Belted Kingfisher, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Little Blue Heron, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Montezuma Oropendola, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Female Anhinga, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Male Anhinga, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Great Curassow Female, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Tortuguero, Costa Rica Interesting note: This nest was above the outdoor bar at Laguna Lodge. I watched the male bring twigs and female arrange them. Fun! |
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| Royal Tern Juvenile, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Osprey, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Long-tailed Grackle Female, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Northern Jacana, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Common Black Hawk, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |
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| Orange-breasted Falcon or Bat Falcon or Black-collared Hawk ???Tortuguero, Costa Rica If you can narrow the identification down, please contact me! Wings only is tough to ID! |
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| Social Flycatcher (most likely) or Great Kiskadee or White-ringed Flycatcher, Tortuguero, Costa Rica |