Tag: wildlife
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Costa Rica Wildlife Adventure Day 7: Pura Vida
It is travel day, we and our fellow travellers gathered this morning for our flights to return home. Our favorite experiences: traveling into the jungle and rain forests, meeting local neighbors who served us delicious food and cold drinks, doing what lights us up with a group of talented and fun photographers, and learning to…
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Costa Rica Wildlife Adventure Day 6: The Peace of Wild Things
After an evening of thunder and lightening, we woke to steady rain showers. The jungle comes alive in the rain with chatter and calls. I am not sure if it’s a celebration of the rain or a protest! Today we travel to Bosque del Cabo Rain Forest Lodge, a beautiful resort in the coastal mountains.…
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Costa Rica Wildlife Adventure Day 5: Take Me Down The River
We are on the road again this morning after a restful and relaxing day yesterday. The road takes us up through the mountains sprinkled with clouds. Around one bend, Dennis and Jose pull to the side of the road where we capture some images of birds we have never seen before. It was initially a…
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Costa Rica Wildlife Adventure Day 3: Lunch In The Rainforest
We are settling into an adventurous and welcome routine here in Costa Rica. We wake early at 5 AM and walk to the dining area where we have breakfast, keeping company with our fellow travelers in the group. We then head back to our room and pack our gear for the day. The last thing…
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Florida Birding Trip Day 2: We’re Going On an Owl Hunt!
We met up early this morning to travel to Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands. There are 100 acres of created wetlands, and we could not appreciate the great diversity and scale of what was waiting for us when we first stepped out onto the boardwalk. There is a luscious quiet about the wetlands, sprinkled…
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Florida Birding Trip Day 1: Pivot!
Today we drove to West Palm Beach where we will meet up with Loren Fisher and the workshop participants. As we made our way south and then east, we passed massive sugar cane fields with road signs warning of smoke and fog impairing visibility. We had no idea that sugar cane is set alight before…
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Florida Birding Trip: Planning, Prep & Farm Adventures
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes & ears, as close to us & everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?” David Attenborough Art and I enjoy photographing birds; we like the variety and trying to capture them doing bird things like singing, flying, eating, chasing and preening.…
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