Sunday, October 16, 2011

Birds at the institute

Olive-striped flycatcher
Swainson's thrush
Violet Sabrewing
(it is alive and well)

Friday, October 7, 2011

Electric storms at Monteverde

A walk through San Louis


Views of the descent down
The cane toad
Tarantula
Leaf-cutter ant struggling with its load
A worn path made by leaf-cutter ants

Orange-chinned parakeets
An orange-chinned parakeet feeding in a tree
A noisy flock of orange-chinned parakeets
Emerald toucanet

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Olive-Ridley Sea-Turtle Arribada

Playa Ostional from a distance


7,000-10,000 individuals nested










Not going to be a successful nest
Glistening of the Olive shells
Three returning to sea
Full nest

A few exhausted did not succeed

sea turtle videos

Olive-Ridley returning to sea
A tired female digging a nest
A glimpse at the number of turtles

Bird Island on the Rio Tempisque

Bird Island
Rio Tempisque
Mangroves
Black-crowned night heron
Anhinga's in the nest

Wood storks, spoonbills, and great egrets
Roseate spoonbills

wildlife around Guanacaste

Buena Vista
American crocodile
Whimbrel
Black vultures

Sanderlings
Green Iguana
Rosebelly spiny lizard
Cnemidophorus deppii

Variegated squirrel
Painted wood turtle
Wood stork