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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.
“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! 🙂
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!
“Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!”
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¡Pura Vida!
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!
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
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| Broad-winged Hawk On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Red-billed Pigeon On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Scarlet-thighed Dacnis On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Lineated Woodpecker On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Passerini Tanager male On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Rufous-tailed Jacamar On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica First Photo for Me |
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| Squirrel Cuckoo On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Tawny-capped Euphonia Eating a Berry On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Crimson-collared Tanager On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me in Costa Rica (1 in Nicaragua) |
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| Black-cheeked Woodpecker On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Social Flycatcher On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Olive-sided Flycatcher On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Double-toothed Kite On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Southern Rough-winged Swallow On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Tropical Mockingbird with Flower Petal On Roads & Trails Around El Copal, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Tropical Mockingbird On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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Great-tailed Grackle male
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| Meadowlark On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me in Costa Rica (1 in Nicaragua) |
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| Groove-billed Ani On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Black Phoebe On Roads & Trails around El Copal, Costa Rica |
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| Rio Cajon just above the waterfall, 5:00 PM Hacienda La Jacaranda, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| I did capture this Red-billed Pigeon in flight yesterday, though not good focus Hacienda La Jacaranda, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| 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!
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| Gray-capped Flycatcher |
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| Red-billed Pigeon |
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| Scarlet Tanager |
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| Social Flycatcher |