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| Orange-chinned Parakeet |
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| White-crowned Parrot |
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| Red-lored Parrot |
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| Rufous Motmot |
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| Broad-billed Motmot |
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| Blue-crowned Motmot |
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| Blue-crowned Motmot |
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Costa Rica - Parrots & Motmots
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Costa Rica - Monkeys, Insects & Flycatchers
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| White -faced Capuchin |
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| White-faced Capuchin |
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| Spider Monkey |
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| Spider Monkey |
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| Spider Monkey |
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| Howler Monkey |
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| Side-striped Palm Pitviper |
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| Howler Monkey |
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| Spider Monkey |
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| Side-striped Palm Pitviper |
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| 'Walking Stick' - Stick Insect |
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| Tarantula Hawk Wasp |
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| Giant Red-winged Grasshopper |
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| Walking Leaf Katydid |
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| Giant Red-winged Grasshopper |
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| Great Kiskadee |
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| Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant |
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| Tropical Pewee |
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| Tufted Flycatcher |
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| Dusky-capped Flycatcher |
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| Yellowish Flycatcher |
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| Least Flycatcher |
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| Tropical Kingbird |
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| Social Flycatcher |
Monday, 9 March 2015
Costa Rica - Miscellaneous
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| Great Curassow |
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| Gray-chested Dove |
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| Land Crab |
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| Red-knee Tarantula |
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| Scorpion (Species unknown [under uv light]) |
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| Salamander (Species unknown) |
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| Red-eyed Tree Frog |
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| Halloween Crab |
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| Arenal Volcano - La Fortuna |
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| Arenal Volcano - La Fortuna |
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| Mexican Tree Frog |
Costa Rica - Doves & Cracids
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| Gray-headed Chachalaca |
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| Crested Guan |
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| Crested Guan |
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| Great Curassow |
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| Ruddy Ground Dove |
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| House Wren |
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| Rufous-naped Wren |
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| White-tipped Dove |
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| Common Ground Dove |
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| Black Guan |
Costa Rica - trip round up - Wren & Antbirds
As some of you will know I recently had the good fortune to visit Costa Rica. What a country! A birders paradise if there ever was one. From watching soaring Black Vultures while having breakfast on my first morning to spotting a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher while en route back to the airport on my final day, this was one trip i certainly wont forget.
To put things in some kind of perspective I'll tell you that since my early teens (some 25 years) I have been first birdwatching then 'birding' a little more seriously as i got older (and wiser?). Up to my C.R. trip i had a 'life list' of birds, mostly in and around Ireland with a handful from the U.K. and Europe and a few from a short trip to the U.S., of 233 species. In ten days alone in C.R. is was able to spot 204 species.
I did this without being on an organised birding tour. I just travelled the country, camera in hand, trying to take in as much as possible. It's not only birds that caught my eye I also trained the camera on some of the other wildlife I encountered (mamnals, insects and reptiles mostly). So, enough of my ramblings. As the title suggests this, and the next couple of posts, will be a largely word free photographic round up of my trip. Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
To put things in some kind of perspective I'll tell you that since my early teens (some 25 years) I have been first birdwatching then 'birding' a little more seriously as i got older (and wiser?). Up to my C.R. trip i had a 'life list' of birds, mostly in and around Ireland with a handful from the U.K. and Europe and a few from a short trip to the U.S., of 233 species. In ten days alone in C.R. is was able to spot 204 species.
I did this without being on an organised birding tour. I just travelled the country, camera in hand, trying to take in as much as possible. It's not only birds that caught my eye I also trained the camera on some of the other wildlife I encountered (mamnals, insects and reptiles mostly). So, enough of my ramblings. As the title suggests this, and the next couple of posts, will be a largely word free photographic round up of my trip. Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
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| House Wren |
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| Dull-mantled Antbird |
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| Spotted Antbird |
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