I seem to be seeing more of these this year and I thought this shot last week was particularly nice.
See more of my Tropical Kingbird photos in the gallery: Tropical Kingbird,
¡Pura Vida!
Tropical Kingbird
Tropical Kingbird + No Kings Rally
This guy is more of a “regular” this year and one that I always like seeing, the Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus (my gallery link).
¡Pura Vida!
No Kings Rally Saturday
And of course the demonstration had nothing to do with Kingbirds! 🙂 And not in the photo were persons in costumes, including a frog & a chicken! 🙂
I did not go because I’m having bathroom issues (like incontinency) and there was no way the embassy would provide their bathrooms, plus they are closed on Saturday anyway and no option nearby. 🙂
About 100 Americans showed up for the demonstration out of the approximately 120,000 American citizens living in Costa Rica. 🙂 And if wondering about Atenas, we had a bus load of 48 there from the approximately 3,000 Americans living in Atenas Canton (county). That 3,000 figure is from the Municipality of Atenas and is approximate. FYI, the U.S. Department of State says that approximately 9 million U.S. Citizens live in other countries around the world, so we are just a fraction of that in Costa Rica or Atenas. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Tropical Kingbird . . .
. . . is one of the many birds I loved discovering on that first trip to Costa Rica in 2009 and still smile every time I see one! This one sort of looks like a little guard watching over my garden! 🙂 See more of my photos of this charming CR bird in my GALLERY: Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus. Including that first one at Lookout Inn, Carate, Corcovado National Park and another one on that same trip in Puerto Jimenez. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Continue reading “Tropical Kingbird . . .”Final Birds in May & About May Photos
And now I will try to focus on nature in June, right here in my garden! 🙂 I started May still processing photos from April and I finished May with blog posts scheduled through this one today, June 10. Yes, I’ve been staying ahead about a week and a half or 10 days on writing the blog posts while coordinating the useable photos for not only the blog, but I post the useable ones in . . .
- My photo gallery: Charlie Doggett’s COSTA RICA+
- I now post all my nature photos for future research on iNaturalist (linked to my posts with a map of where photographed in CR.
- I am still putting butterfly photos also on butterfliesandmoths.org (linked to the Costa Rica Region where I’m the primary contributor).
- And I still post bird photos on eBird of course! You may have to add my name to see my postings there: charliedoggett.
And though it may seem like I shared a lot of butterfly photos in May, there were a lot more photographed! I got 45 species of butterflies in my garden in May! At least two species were new ones for me. And I’m having trouble keeping up with them all! 🙂 It is like I don’t need to travel to get photos, but I look forward to some different animals in my July rainforest trip when I celebrate my 85th birthday.
Now, here’s those last two birds in May . . .
Perched Like a King!
This Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus (linked to eBird) is perched proudly on the powerline cable in front of my house like so many do. He is common in both South America and Central America and one of the many little joys of living in Costa Rica! 🙂 See more of my photos in the gallery titled Tropical Kingbird — Tirano Tropical with that second name being the Spanish name for this bird along with the unofficial local common name of “Pecho amarillo.” 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Hope you’re happy America!
UPDATED Monday, 8:33am after reading similar, more detailed article in the Washington Post:
Another one of your deportee planes just landed in Costa Rica’s San Jose Airport with 135 Refugees (Tico Times link) after a 4 hour flight from California, they faced an 8 hour bus ride to a migrant camp near the Panama border (Darien Gap). That included 65 minors and several senior adults & 2 pregnant women. All will be cared for lovingly by the Costa Rica people and helped to get to either their birth country or, because many can’t go back, will be helped to residency in another accepting country like Costa Rica. The refugees are from all over the world including Asia who are being sent here and to Panama, two countries who agreed to be intermediary locations for persons forced out of the U.S. The same day these 135 came here, 300 arrived in Panama. The richest country in the world kicks out people it doesn’t want and lets other, poorer countries like Costa Rica & Panama take care of them. Hmmmmmmm. While at the same time talking about taking over the Panama Canal. You guys really chose Trump as your president?
I guess those Republican Evangelicals have forgotten what the Bible says about accepting refugees and migrants. So sad! And it is also sad to watch from a distance as Trump (“Perched like a king!”) and his evil cohorts (the Republican Party & Rich People) destroy my birth country. But I guess we will all eventually get used to China & Russia as the new world leaders.
🙁
Tropical Kingbird
I remember seeing this bird on my first trip to Costa Rica back in 2009, down on the southern end of Osa Peninsula near Corcovado NP at Lookout Inn, Carata. He’s a handsome bird without the extravagant colors of many tropical birds. And now he’s a regular in my garden! 🙂 See more photos in my gallery for the Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus from literally all over Costa Rica and that first I saw is at the bottom of the gallery. 🙂
Tropical Kingbird
I do still see birds in my garden even though the butterflies greatly outnumber them! 🙂 And of the four I am sharing these next four days, this is the least-seen of them: Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus (linked to my gallery) and as always, you can read more about them on eBird. They are seen throughout Central America and most of South America and are sometimes known as one of the “telephone wire birds: or “fence birds,” as they like open areas and catch flying insects, including my beloved butterflies. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Tropical Kingbird
This handsome Tropical Kingbird – Tyrannus melancholicus (linked to my gallery for them) is another special bird seen all over South and Central America. I photographed this one while he waited in line for some of those palm berries shown yesterday in my garden. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
5 of 10 Xandari Birds
Yeah, ten were all the birds I photographed there this time, but it was only a little more than one day there and during rainy season, so okay for near a big city. But by comparison, I got photos of 15 butterfly species! I will eventually share more of them. And on my first day’s post there were two more birds, a Kiskadee and a Rufous-tailed Wren. Here’s 5 more . . .
Kingbird Catches Insect
In Carara National Park on my last morning in Tarcoles, I barely got photos (in poor light) of this Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus (eBird link) before and after he caught an insect for his breakfast. 🙂
I have some much better photos in my Tropical Kingbird Gallery. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!