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It has been a while, yet this bird is one of the regulars in my garden, though I’ve had to go other places to see and photograph the male, who is strikingly solid red! See my collection of Summer Tangers Gallery. Or you can read about them on eBird. They are found everywhere from southern Canada to northern South America.
Two more photos . . .
Continue reading “Summer Tanager Female”
This female Summer Tanager is focused on her breakfast as an insect flies by. 🙂
See more in my Summer Tanager GALLERY.
¡Pura Vida!
Here’s either 4 or 5 species of Tanagers I photographed at Maquenque Ecolodge and the reason for the uncertainty is that one photo is of a baby or young juvenile and one can’t be certain of the species unless with its mom. 🙂 Many different baby Tanagers will look like this . . .
This female Summer Tanager seems to live in or near my garden, as I have been seeing her feeding and resting in my Nance Tree for months now. A regularly visiting bird seems like an old friend and I’m glad she likes the flowers, seeds, and fruit of this tree at different times of the year.
See my different Summer Tanager photos from around the year here in Atenas and from 3 other parts of Costa Rica in my Summer Tanager GALLERY. Always more females than the bright red males.
¡Pura Vida!
Blog post DATE “disclaimer” or “truth in reporting” : When writing so many posts about my Tortuguero visit in February, I gradually had several days worth ahead, up to two weeks worth, and so now the “daily sharings” from my little casita garden and walks through Atenas, Alajuela Provincia, Costa Rica are being written several days ahead of time. For example, this post was written on March 2. And if I have a down day with no post, the flow will continue! 🙂 My life of being “Retired in Costa” is almost daily recorded in my blog posts and totally collected in my Photo Gallery by subjects and trip galleries. Sharing photos of my interactions with nature is my life now as displayed in that online gallery.
THANK YOU for following my blog and your interest in my retirement life and photography! It has been a real joy now for more than eight years and there’s more to come! The website stats say I have 473 blog subscribers plus the 650 friends on Facebook that receive a link and the stats say that beyond reading the email notice and Facebook link photo, my blog website gets over 2,000 visits a month, with 28 comments and 218 “Likes” which only other WordPress bloggers can give. So blogging my retirement love of nature in Costa Rica has been very fulfilling and fun for me! And I was surprised at how many people in Costa Rica follow the blog when a large number showed up at the December JIT Art Show! That was a real joy! And that will continue this year as my only one time a year to sell photos in person.
I am not in business to sell my photos (It’s a hobby!), though they are always available in many formats through my gallery with only a dollar “markup” for me, plus in photo books in my Bookstore (also with only $1 markup), and a few novelty items in my CafePress shop (also with only $1 markup). So shop online if you like my photos! 🙂 Available for your pleasure, not my profit! 🙂
I’m starting to see more birds in my garden trees now with yesterday and today including a Keel-billed Toucan, Squirrel Cuckoo, Gray-headed Chachalaca, White-winged Dove, Red-billed Pigeon, Clay-colored Thrush, Great Kiskadee. Rufous-naped Wren, and today a Summer Tanager Female which was the only decent photo I got. Here’s three shots of her at different angles . . .
I was impressed by the “Queenly” look of this female Summer Tanager in my garden the other day. She looks so stately and regal, holding her head up properly like Queen Elizabeth does. I keep seeing these females with no bright red males around. So I’m wondering if maybe she is a resident here and the migrants haven’t arrived yet? But then surely with resident females there would also be some resident males? 🙂
And below she is looking straight at me, like she’s asking me, “Who are you and what do you think you’re doing?” 🙂 . . .
Continue reading “A Queenly Female Summer Tanager”
I know that it was only a couple of weeks ago when I shared another one of these (maybe the same one?), but this one hung around after breakfast the other morning longer than any other bird and I had fun trying to capture her in the shadows of the Cecropia Tree. Here’s 3 of my efforts . . .
This migrant is appropriately named for Costa Rica since they are always here during our Summer or September to May. The males are uniformly red all over while the females vary from light yellow to a dirty yellow or gold with sometimes brown on the head and wings. Read about the Summer Tanager on eBird or see my Summer Tanager Gallery with photos from other areas of Costa Rica. They breed in North America during the North American Summer then spend Sept-May south from Mexico to northern South America, our summer! 🙂 Thus the name fits both regions during the times there.
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| Summer Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-winged Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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Palm Tanager
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
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Passerini’s Tanager
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
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| Gray-headed Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds
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| Golden-hooded Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua Note in next photo how different the same bird can look! |
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| Golden-hooded Tanager, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua I know it looks a little different, but is the same species as above. |
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| Crimson-collared Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow-winged Tanager, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| Summer Tanager, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow-crowned Euphonia, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| Passerini’s Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Gray-headed Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Blue-gray Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Sorry for a repeat of the Crimson-collared Tanager, but this tanager collection wouldn’t be complete without it and it is my favorite shot of the whole trip as stated earlier! And apologies for some pretty poor photos here, but my bird collection is primary over photo quality. 🙂
I am really pleased with this collection of 8 different species of tanagers in Nicaragua since I only have 3 species in my Costa Rica Birds collection! Soon there will be a separate photo gallery of my Nicaragua birds and I’ll eventually do the same for Panama, Guatemala and Mexico. A Central America collection! 🙂