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Watching this mockingbird take a bath in our backy Watching this mockingbird take a bath in our backyard fills me with more joy than vegan dark chocolate. It's also a great reminder that offering fresh drinking (and bathing) water is more important than providing a bird feeder, especially during long stretches without rain. And all the antics of drinking and bathing are more fun to watch than just gobbling of seeds. Unless it's fledgling feeding time. But we'll get to that in other upcoming photos...
Meanwhile in St. Petersburg: monarchs making more Meanwhile in St. Petersburg: monarchs making more monarchs. (And I didn't know how to tell them that my milkweed plants haven't fully grown back since the last batch of monarch eggs turned into caterpillars and gobbled up the leaves.)
Wouldn't want anyone to think that I didn't captur Wouldn't want anyone to think that I didn't capture sloths while in Costa Rica. I did - some of them were even awake. Since people have asked about ordering prints: I don't have all photos listed on LuciWest.com yet, so please DM me for now. The prices on that website shop page apply to all images. Thanks for asking :)
Apparently, there are 8 different kinds of humming Apparently, there are 8 different kinds of hummingbirds in Costa Rica. According to my photos there's at least on more: the blurry splash of color too fast for my camera shutter. But this here seems to be the violet sabrewing, which I captured because it sat still for a split second on a branch in the Monteverde Cloud Forest. I actually did get some photos of hummingbirds in their helicopter flight moment - when everything moves but their head. But I'm saving those for another day when I've had time to choose the best one. This here is just a quickie I chose for my latest Patreon Insider + Photo Blog Post: https://patreon.com/posts/65814641 titled "Got you something in Costa Rica..." #hummingbird #CostaRica #happierplace #monteverde #patreoncreator #Patreon #NaturePhotography #birdnerd #sawbrewing #birdingphotography #cloudforest #best_birds_of_world #eye_spy_birds #nature_brilliance #your_best_birds #kolibri #colibri #ebirdfrontpage #nuts_about_birds
Just starting to look through the Costa Rica photo Just starting to look through the Costa Rica photos I took with my "real camera" (vs. the iPhone photos I shared before), and came across this from our first day. And the expression on that capuchin monkey pretty much matches the way I must have looked for the entire week. So I'm sharing this real quick before looking through the rest of the photos. This was on our first full day in Costa Rica - at Carara National Park, known for trails without many people and the largest variety of birds. It also serves as an example of my relentless nature (OCD?) of wanting to see something through - and how that works out. We had crossed paths only with one guy - then a little later he walked up on us from behind. Turns out we had walked a loop and missed out on making it to the actual end of the trail, which he said just featured a dried-out lagoon. Yeah, I couldn't just get in the car and drive to the other trails, I needed to see what was at the end of the trail. We were rewarded with our first sighting of a group of monkeys in the middle of the woods, with no other humans around. (This is not the gang that chased me, that was at another park the next day.) #naturephotography #findmeoutside #monkeybusiness #CostaRica #capuchin #fiftyshades_of_nature #wildernessculture #BBCEarth #lumixlounge #wherelumixgoes #ourplanetdaily #wildlifeIG #animal_sultans #wildlife_perfection #yourshotphotographer #animalplanet #natgeowild #happierplace #wildlifeplanet
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