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| Banded Skipper Butterfly On the outside of my neighbor’s window screen. A better specimen and view than one I showed earlier inside my house. |
See also my BUTTERFLY & MOTH PHOTO GALLERY
A Couple of Repeat Birds
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| Hoffman’s Woodpecker Female In my garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica A little better photo than one posted the other day. |
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| White-Ringed Flycatcher In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| White-Ringed Flycatcher In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
And my BIRDS GALLERY online
Blue-crowned Motmot
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| Blue-crowned Motmot In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-crowned Motmot In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
The other day I told about missing a photo of a motmot, well at breakfast today I got one. Not my best shot with the cool tail partially hidden, but okay to be behind some leaves.
See also my BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY
Female Hoffman’s Woodpecker
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| Female Hoffman’s Woodpecker My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Female Hoffman’s Woodpecker My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
See my BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY
The Missed Birds!
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| Many Pass Through this Dead Tree at end of my terrace. Yesterday I had no camera when two Keel-billed Toucans stopped momentarily & then up the hill! and a few days ago A Blue-crowned Motmot landed in this same tree, briefly! Links are to one of my photos of that same bird made elsewhere. |
I think the toucans were looking at my Cecropia Tree (Arbole Guarumo o Yagrumo) which is suppose to attract toucans. So far that is as close to the Cecropia as I have seen them yet. Eventually! Pura Vida!
The dead tree is soon to be cut down, so maybe that will make the Cecropia more appealing! 🙂
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| The Cecropia or Guarumo o Yagrumo Tree beside my terrace (a deck in the states). And remember that I put Spanish words/names in red (when I remember). 🙂 Toucans love this tree, but mine is still young, so eventually it will get toucans. |
And for the birds I did get photos of, see my BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY
Or maybe you would like more trees in my FLORA & FORESTS GALLERY
Anthony’s Gardens
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| On the hill behind my neighbor’s house he has this very full, lush garden that is more than camera shows! Anthony has spent a lot of time and money making this full hillside garden next door. |
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| And by his front door this nice garden in front of my house. |
Anthony is a good neighbor for many reasons and his gardens are certainly one of those! Together we keep our landlord’s property looking good and we both use the same gardener to keep our yards up. If you live in Atenas, it is J&C Gardens or contact me to get the phone number or email address. We think they are very good.
Yes, this is the Anthony who made the garden-art clay bird in my garden though he does not have anything similar in his garden yet. He will eventually.
And there is my under construction FLORA & FORESTS photo gallery if interested.
Different View of Banded Skipper
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| Banded Skipper (Same one as two days ago) Inside my house, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
The one I posted two days ago (repeated below) that was on my living room screen is this same one above I believe. I found this one on the floor below the screen today. Many butterflies have short lives like that. But this view makes him look a lot different with the orange and white back wings showing. The white bars across the upper wings still make him like a banded skipper, but none in the books match nor any online. It is frustrating to not be able to label him! So maybe a new species?
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| Banded Skipper (I think) Inside my house, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
I lightened or brightened this second photo which was a dark as the first right out of camera. But you can see the markings are the same on his upper wings.
See my photo gallery of Costa Rica BUTTERFLIES
Dead Leaf Insect?
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| Unknown Insect On my bedroom wall, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Unknown Insect On my bedroom wall, Atenas, Costa Rica NOTE: this side view w/ something like a tail? And curl like a dead leaf. Inch and a half long maybe. 2 inches? |
There are several “dead leaf” insects in the books & online, even butterflies & moths, but I could not find one like this guy! Am I discovering new species? 🙂 Truly a land of discovery here!
As usual, I just went to bed without worrying about him and he was gone the next morning! Either a meal for one of my geckos or left the house, hid somewhere else in the house or died like many insects do every night.
See my OTHER INSECTS photo gallery
Banded Skipper
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| Banded Skipper Butterfly (Possibly Chisos or Spiked) Inside my house, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica What is throwing me on ID is the 6 spots on each side – None in book with 6! They all have 0-3. And none indicate orange bulb on antennae. |
And see my Photo Gallery for BUTTERFLIES in Costa Rica with 54 species!
Or my newest photo book My First 50 Butterflies in Costa Rica you can preview online free!
Kitchen Window Jungle
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| What I see when standing at the kitchen sink looking out the window. My home, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
There are prettier spots in my garden, but this is how it is at this spot this week. It is all constantly changing and further to the right is the prettiest now with a lot of Red Gingers blooming.