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I wish all who celebrate... peace, love and happiness this Hanukah season!
I am running out of critters and bird photos to share. So I am sharing some of my archived photos from our 2010 trip to Costa Rica, we took a guided trip staying at various hotels starting at San Jose, Tortuguero on the Caribbean coast, Fortuna the gateway to Arenal Volcano Nat'l Park and Guanacaste on the Pacific Coast. We visited a coffee plantation, pineapple plantation, the butterfly garden, various nature river boat rides from the lodge in Tortuguero and a nature boat ride at Caño Negro, we hiked in the Poas Volcano Nat'l Park Cloud forest, on the Arenal Nat'l Park hanging bridges trail and walked on the beach in Guanacaste located on Costa Rica's Pacific coast.
1. The Butterfly Garden, various species of butterflies and lovely flowers and plants.
1. The Butterfly Garden, various species of butterflies and lovely flowers and plants.
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10. Various wildlife seen in various areas around Costa Rica. Streaked Backed Oriole in Guanacaste, Brown Pelicans, Iguana, the Coati (about the size of a house cat) crossed the trail in front of us at the Hanging Bridge park, a sloth was seen hiding in a tree above the river, a large Black Oxen, other Oxen and some horses seen along the road.
2. Insects and reptiles and other miscellaneous wildlife. We saw Rhinoceros Beetles, Hercules Beetle, Crocodiles and Caiman, Iguana, various lizards, turtles, Beetles, Long-nosed Bats, Pit Viper, Orb spiders and Ghost crabs.
3. The wild monkeys we saw in Costa Rica were the most common seen and heard Howler Monkey, Golden-mantled Howler Monkey, White faced Capuchin Monkey and Spider Monkeys.
4. The flowers must taste delicious, this monkey was hanging a tree branch with just it's tail. The photos taken from the moving boat ride are not the clearest. But, I think it is cute.
5. Costa Rica bird lifers...These are not all the birds or lifers I was able to see on my trip.
Ringed Kingfisher, Amazon Kingfisher, not sure if seen below we also saw the Green Kingfisher, Grey-necked wood Rail, Great Potoo, Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Slaty-tailed Trogon, Blue-Gold Macaw (not-sure if these two were escapees, seen in a tree at the Hanging Bridge Park area), Red-lored Parrots, Montezuma Oropendola, Passerini's Tanager, Palm Tanager, Blue-gray Tanager, Great Kiskadee and the Variable Seedeater.
6. Before our breakfast or boat ride tours I walked around the grounds of the Tortuguergo Lodge. The Montezuma Oropendola had nest in a lot of the trees.
7. It is a cool looking bird and they make some strange sounds. The male can be 20 inches long. Their tale feathers are a bright yellow.
9. Costa Rica Toucan lifers...The top two toucans are the Collared Aracari, in the second row is the Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan and the last row is the Keel-billed Toucan. Seeing the Toucans in the wild was a treat for me.
10. Various wildlife seen in various areas around Costa Rica. Streaked Backed Oriole in Guanacaste, Brown Pelicans, Iguana, the Coati (about the size of a house cat) crossed the trail in front of us at the Hanging Bridge park, a sloth was seen hiding in a tree above the river, a large Black Oxen, other Oxen and some horses seen along the road.
Costa Rica was one of my favorite trips, the wildlife sightings are amazing. I took over a hundred photos each day we were there, I do have some previous blog post on Costa Rica. I would love to take another trip to Costa Rica seeing parts of the country we missed.
Thanks to all my visitors and for all your comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves critters and has linked up their critter post.
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Also visit: I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the host Anni.
Beautiful photos! we were in Costa Rica one year ago, and it was fabulous. So sad we are locked in now.
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DeleteI would love to go back to Costa Rica, we had such a great trip the first time.
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Happy Hanukah! I like your selection of critters photos. I have never seen so many types of monkeys. birds, insects and reptiles. Thank you for hosting. Enjoy your weekend.
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Costa Rica is the most wonderful place to see beautiful birds in t the world. I went a number of years ago and took thousands of photographs and still have not edit most of them!!! I am sure you trip was just as wonderful as mine and you certainly saw a lot of critters. Thanks for sharing and hosting. Stay safe and have a wonderful weekend.
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DeleteI would like to see your Costa Rica photos!
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos with us!
ReplyDeleteThrough the eye of your camera, we can also see the beauty of nature!
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Wow! What a collection of butterflies...and not to mention the toucans! I am delighted with all these exotic beauties!
ReplyDeleteThe Oropendola is awesome too. Thanks for sharing. What a fun time you must have had!
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Very beautiful album
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Que lindo tudo isso!Esse jardim das borboletas é maravilhoso!Adorei ver! beijos, lindo fim de semana,chica
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Beautiful series of photos.
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Fabulous shots.
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Hello Eileen,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos from Costa Rica. The birds are very pretty. They looks very exotic.
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Hi Eileen,
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I keep running into the same problem. I click on the name and also place the link. But when I click enter everything just stays there.
Even if I check privacy, I will not get the link from my site. Very unfortunate but it really does not work.
Also do not understand why I can no longer do this ???
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A fantastic series of critters and nature photos. Thanks for sharing, have a great weekend.
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Wonderful portfolio of Costa Rica wildlife! I spent a summer there back in 1969 during a Central America Tropical Medicine fellowship, but was limited to only one carry-on size suitcase, so my binoculars and bird guide stayed home. Five Fellows, a professor and a driver had to all fit into one Suburban SUV. Studied mostly bugs, microorganisms and marmosets but did visit Volcanos Poas and Irazu. Birds were distant and colorful unidentified flying objects.
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DeleteIt is a shame you did not have your binocs during your stay in Costa Rica.
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how wonderful to see your shots. It is actually one of the great thing with covid, we can easily go back in time and enjoy some travelling once more. Your trip to CR was quite different from mine. Mine was mainly about birds. I photographes almost 300 species I could ID. But you saw much more of the wildlife and country. I recognize most of the birds you share but not much other wildlife. And we only spent one hour at the beach of Pacific ocean :( Take care.
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DeleteYes, most of my birds were seen during our tours and outings, not a bird walk.
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A wonderful mix.
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Each & all are super-incredible! Of course my favorites are the tropical birds. A few years ago South Texas has a rare appearance of an Amazon kingfisher!
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DeleteI enjoyed seeing all the bird in Costa Rica, there were so many more to see.
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...Eileen, your pictures are so nice and warm looking on this cold winter morning. Thanks for sharing and hosting. Take care and enjoy your day.
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I have birded in Costa Rica three times - and would do it three times more given the chance! Realistically, however, I will not be back there again.
ReplyDeleteThank you David!
DeleteThere are so many new places I would like to visit.
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What a fantastic plenitude of amazing critters, Eileen! Beautiful photos!
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What an amazing trip that must have been. We went to the Dominican Republic. Not a lot of time for birding, as I was with my girls, but they are so different, aren't they?!
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PS: Thanks for hosting, Eileen! Have a great new week!
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Your Costa Rica trip was obviously very special Eileen. The variety of birds and other wildlife looks amazing in both numbers and species to be seen. No wonder you would like to go back.
ReplyDeleteI must say that the Montezuma Oropendola looks and sounds wonderful, maybe the bird of the trip? But I would like to see and hear all those different monkeys.
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Thank you Phil!
DeleteThe wildlife sightings in Costa Rica were just amazing.
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Hi Eileen, It is early Saturday morning, still dark and 33 degrees outside here in Seattle. My usual morning routine is underway with my first cup of dark brew coffee and a look at the World Wide Web. Today, I decided to start by taking a look at some of my favorite blogs. Saturday’s Critters #365 is just excellent. I know what you mean by running low on current photos and looking back into the archives because that is exactly what is happening to me as well since I really can’t go anywhere now except the grocery store. :-) I loved these pictures from your visit to Costa Rica. We had a one-day stop in Costa Rica on a cruise a few years ago and I was impressed with that part of the world. I recall a long lunch on the ship with a fellow passenger who was an American who had lived in Costa Rica. I tried to get all the info I could on how one might retire there. :-) Thanks for sharing your excellent photos. Have a happy weekend and do take good care. Best regards to you from Seattle. John
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DeleteI appreciate your visit and nice comment. I would think it is hard for someone to retire in another country, unless you can keep two addresses one being in the USA. I did love Costa Rica, I would love to go back and visit another part of the country that we missed. Take care, enjoy your weekend!
That's one of the wonderful things about traveling...seeing new and unusual things! You take such great photos and I love seeing the nests and natural habitat of so many of these. Enjoy your weekend!
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DeleteWe do try to see as much as we can when we travel, especially wildlife.
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what a great idea eileen!! both sharing images from the past and formatting them this way!! amazing animals, critters, bugs and insects...seeing the collared aracari and all of these critters in the wild must have been so exciting!! this sounds like a wonderful trip!! have a great weekend, many thanks for hosting. be well, stay safe and happy!!!
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DeleteYes, it was exciting to see all the wildlife in Costa Rica. So many new sights to see.
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These are all so awesome Eileen, thanks for sharing them with us!
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You have a lot of amazing critters i have never seen before, love all the monkeys and that hercules beetle and this proves what i said on my post this week about palms being the enviroment for birds. all of those photos are amazing showing them living in the palms
ReplyDeleteThanks Sandra! Yes, the palms and all the trees are important habitat for the birds.
DeleteI always love seeing the critters in the wild.
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Hi Eileen! :) Lovely post! That Oropendola is gorgeous. I love seeing the monkeys too. I envy you that you witnessed such lovely wildlife!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Rain!
DeleteI do love seeing the wildlife, in their own habitats.
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You treated us with a wonderful assortment of critters today, Eileen! That must have been quite a trip.
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Fantastic photos. My mouth would be agape just seeing Toucans flying around everywhere! And then I laughed at the named Montezuma Oropendola ...and their nests! Another fun bird and name. Thanks.
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That was the trip of a life time. The toucans are so pretty.
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DeleteWe were thrilled to see all of these Toucans.
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Wonderful memories of your trip and great photos to boot. I can't pick a favorite but the toucan bills are so amazing with the bright colors...I hope one day the world can open up again and you can make that trip back. Have a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sondra! I think every bird seems to be my favorite.
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I can't even imagine going to Costa Rica, let alone seeing all these creatures, Eileen!! You two were very fortunate to have experienced such a wonderful new world...:)jp
ReplyDeleteThank you JP! It was a great trip, one I will never forget.
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Hi Eileen,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing these wonderful photos. They are all fantastic.
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Your wildlife sightings there were amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda!
DeleteIt is a great place for the wildlife sightings.
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So many great photos...beautiful and interesting.
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Wow! That's almost like an overload of good things. I can see why you wish to go back.
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Those mosaics are wonderful, filled with such beautiful images and even more beautiful memories. I hope you're having a terrific weekend, Eileen!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jeanie!
DeleteIt was a trip for the memory books.
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What a fantastic tour, I love all of them.
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You make Costa Rica look so gorgeous. I would love to visit. Love the toucans!
ReplyDeleteThank you Marie!
DeleteI will always remember this trip and all the wildlife.
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Amazing photos of an awesome place and that long bodies and tailed bird is awesome ~ All lovely photos ^_^
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Love the picture of all the butterflies.
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What a great variety of critters!! Hope your weekend is going well.
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Wow, how exciting! Thanks for sharing these and for hosting the linkup.
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Fabulous blog
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What an amazing selection of creatures! Those nests are wonderful, they look similar to the nests of African weaver birds.
ReplyDeleteThank you Juliet!
DeleteThe nest were cool looking.
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All your creatures are beautiful and very exotic to me!
ReplyDeleteI admire your wonderful photos!
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Seriously beautiful collection of photos of such varied and interesting creatures. I was quite taken by those elongated nests. So many are architecturally amazing aren't they. To think they are built with a beak. But in this case it is quite a beak. :)
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Such lovely photos! It's so interesting to see all those butterflies and the gorgeous colors they "wear". Also, the bird's nest is amazing. . .a lot of work!!! Thank you, Eileen!
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After reading this post, I feel as though I have been on a long trip to a magical wonderland, full of critters of all sized, all kinds, all fabulous and fascinating. Thank you for all that you took the time so display and write about here. Wondrous!
ReplyDeleteThank you Inger! It is a beautiful place to visit, the wildlife was awesome.
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So many colourful butterflies, we mostly get the monarchs here.
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Happy to see your Costa Rica photos, thank you Eileen. Have a great week :)
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what cool critters. amazing just to see them all .. quiet moments to take it all in. i always enjoy your posts. i mean i see nature every day, but not ones like you do share. thanks for do that. i appreciate it so much. ( ;
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lovely butterflies... various species and varies colors.....
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DeleteThe butterflies were all lovely to see.
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Such amazing photos, Eileen! Loved them all, and specially enjoyed the monkey's set from Costa Rica. Must have been such a great experience.
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DeleteIt was fun seeing all the wild monkeys.
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thanks for sharing your Costa Rica photos. It's on my bucket list of places to visit for a long time so I really enjoyed getting to enjoy it a bit through your pictures. Hope you've had a great weekend.
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DeleteI have a long bucket list.
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So much to see there. The colours are amazing and that nest is a work of art.
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I'll be seeing all of those critters soon. I'm so excited! I love the Aracari shot.
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