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🦉 A clay-colored thrush, the national bird here in #CostaRica, is making a run from Nest Depot for building materials. #birds #birdphotography #photography 📷

😆 I'm glad you like them! I'll be going through all I've taken for quite a while. Thanks!

🦉 Three views of a pair of yellow-bellied elaenias near San Carlos, #CostaRica #birds #photography📷

Thanks!

Welcome!

📷 Glasswing butterfly (Greta oto) from Monteverde region of #CostaRica. #insect #photography

🦉 Black-bellied hummingbird getting a little shut-eye in central #CostaRica. #birds #photography #nature 📷

Beautiful! So glad to see you here!

I am so overdue for a trip to Italy! Beautiful pictures!

Thanks! It was definitely amazing. I took a little video, but can't post those here (and it didn't work on Post) 🤨

Happening now - sunset outside Bijagua, #CostaRica. #sunset #photography 📷

🦉 Common tody-flycatcher looking suspicious in San Carlos, #CostaRica. #birds #photography 📷

It was awe inspiring indeed. And tiring...

Very beautiful. You should make a trip!

Thanks, IG! We definitely slept well. We'll keep going while we can!

Thanks, Jean! It was cool, though we were hot!

It definitely was! I loved watching the transformation.

Thanks, Mark. We had a great time and slept very well.

It does kinda stand out...

As I mentioned to someone on Post, I had seen pictures and thought they might have been enhanced, but they weren't. It was striking.

📷 Yesterday's hike was exhausting, but worth it. The Río Celeste (Sky-Blue River) gets its colors when 2 streams join. Their chemicals react, forming this dazzling color. Last picture is the place where the streams (left and top) join and change happens. Amazing to see. #photography #CostaRica

🦉 This pair of blue-gray tanagers sends #FeatheredFriday greetings from San Carlos, #CostaRica.
#birds #photography 📷

Thanks, Leigh. I'll look into that.

📷 It's #WaterfallWednesday, and this is a beautiful one we saw a few days ago near San Carlos, #CostaRica. #photography #waterfall #travel

Thanks, SB! It's a nice morning now. Heading off to unknown territory.

Thanks; it was!

Heading off to unknown territory today. Looking forward to new things.

Thanks!

No doubt about that!

Sure; glad you like it. You can find it here: www.5centsphotos.com/Birds/i-m9Kd...

Purple throated mountain gem

One of the many beautiful species of hummingbird in Costa Rica

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Our amazement just kept growing!

Thanks, IG! This is my favorite area of CR, but we're headed out tomorrow to discover new places. Maybe I'll have a new favorite soon!

And a little later...

📷 Current situation: watching the sunset from a restaurant balcony in Santa Elena, #CostaRica
#sunset #photography

I am; hope you are as well. Thanks!

They are amazing birds! Thanks

Definitely lucky! Glad you like them.

Thanks! I don't do artsy very well when I try to...

Thanks! They are that.

Magical is a good adjective for them. They are phenomenal.

Costa Rica has about 55 kinds, and I probably haven't seen half of them. A reason to keep at it!

I'm hoping for some more good ones as I work my way through them. And I'm still taking them...
Thanks!

Thanks! They are lovely.

I got pretty closein Tortuguero, on the Caribbean side, a couple of years ago. Never gets old. Thanks!

Thank you! They are!

Definitely unique. Thanks!

They really are. Thanks!

Glad you like it!