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First a Turkey Vulture soared overhead like a messenger from God, then 3 simple birds landed in 3 different trees and I felt close to God during breakfast today – even without colorful, rare or gorgeous birds – just plain birds smiling at me as I smiled back!
My heart is like a singing bird.
~Christina Rossetti
And tomorrow morning, Saturday, I leave for Palo Verde National Park. See yesterday’s post for more information.
¡Pura Vida!
I took my camera out for a later breakfast today and though earlier is better, I did get shots of these three familiar friends. I include two of the dove because front view and back view is always different! Click image to see larger.
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm –
I’ve heard it in the chillest land –
And on the strangest Sea –
Yet – never – in Extremity,
It asked a crumb – of me.
~Emily Dickinson
¡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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| White-winged Dove In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
One of my favorite things to do is to sleep until I wake up, shower, eat a liesurely breakfast on my terrace admiring flowers and the visiting birds. So, after a busy, early, hard day hiking yesterday, I had one of my relaxed mornings today (23rd) and recorded part of it in the above photos. There were other birds and more flowers, but this is a good sample for today.
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| White-winged Dove in my Cecropia or Guarumo Tree. |
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| Smooth-billed Ani Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| White-winged Dove Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| White-tipped Dove Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua The difference from White-winged is the tail is tipped white |
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| Inca Dove Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Bronzed Cowbird Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Clay-colored Thrush Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Rufous-naped Wren Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Melodius Blackbird Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Streak-headed Woodcreeper Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Whew! It was a lot of birds! A wonderful trip!
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| White-winged Dove He ties with Yigüirro as the most heard birds. His is a coo-coo coo cooooooo |
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| Yigüirro or Clay-colored Thrush Day and night I hear him with his Tch, Tch, Tch, Tch or Toc, Toc, Toc, Toc The National Bird of Costa Rica |
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| Melodious Blackbird My bird sounds app doesn’t have this one, but “melodious” must be happy! The only all-black bird in Costa Rica with dark eye, shaking rainwater off here. |
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| Gray-capped Flycatcher He kind of squeaks in the morning among all the other bird sounds then more of a chirp during the day |
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| White-tipped Dove His sound is not as noticed, a low-pitched uuuuuuu His tail tip is white while above dove’s wing’s white |
And if you’re wondering about the sounds, I got a new app for my phone, “The Bird Sounds of Costa Rica.” Cool! Maybe I will begin to recognize more of them now. For more information, check your app source (I got it from GooglePlays) or direct from the birdsounds website in the Netherlands: http://www.birdsounds.nl/ They have a bunch for all around the world.