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Bird bug & dog people etal
« on: April 10, 2022, 05:21:43 AM »
It’s been a while since we’ve seen your beautiful fascinating endearing pictures here

I, for one, could use a lift

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Re: Bird bug & dog people etal
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2022, 10:56:39 AM »
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Regards, Jack

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« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2022, 12:41:23 PM »
Thankyouthankyou

The Smile is back

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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2022, 08:03:52 PM »
Here's a bird pic to brighten anyone's day. My trip to Costa Rica in March 2020 had to be abandoned half way through due to Covid, but fortunately not before we visited Rancho Naturalista, a wonderful lodge where this photo was taken.

The aptly named snowcap was my main 'must-see' bird of the trip, and Rancho was the place to see it. These hummers don't visit nectar feeders and none of them seemed to be visiting the plants round the lodge itself. The owner, a lovely lady called Lisa, knew how badly I wanted to see one so she took me to another part of the premises where there were lots of verbena shrubs, much loved by snowcaps, and left me there for a couple of hours. There were at least two males (like this one - the females are much less striking) but they're not easy to photograph as they constantly flit from flower to flower and then fly off to a remote perch. This one very obligingly flew to a much nearer perch at eye level and allowed me to approach closer and closer until I was just a few feet away. Just as I finished snapping away Lisa came to collect me - had she turned up five minutes earlier I'd have missed my golden opportunity. For once Sod wasn't sitting on my shoulder!
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Re: Bird bug & dog people etal
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2022, 09:03:05 PM »
Beautiful, Pat. Thanks for the pic

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« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2022, 10:45:03 PM »
Pat! What a jewel.

Exquisite photo & prose. Thanks for sharing the moment.

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Re: Bird bug & dog people etal
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2022, 12:52:55 AM »
Thanks to Jack & Pat.

Really brightened up my day :) 
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Re: Bird bug & dog people etal
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2022, 11:38:15 AM »
Sadly, the atrocious February and early March weather in my part of the UK has deprived me of insect photo opportunities, but I might have a couple of butterflies to share when I fire up the laptop ... which had to go into storage for a while because the power supply blew up, and I've only now obtained a replacement ... money I would rather not have been forced to spend during these financially stormy times ...
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2022, 03:21:12 PM »
I do hope conditions will shift soon, Cal and you’ll be able to share w us some of your encounters with the fascinating world of small creatures

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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2022, 10:02:57 PM »
In the meantime here's a pic of a colourful blue-eyed grasshopper from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Our grasshoppers tend to be drably coloured; many of the ones I photographed in Ecuador were brightly coloured.

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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2022, 11:36:18 PM »
This fellow is quite amazing! absolutely transfixing!

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Re: Bird bug & dog people etal
« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2022, 01:08:44 AM »
Lifetime first species encountered during last night's moth trapping - Shoulder Stripe:
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« Reply #12 on: April 16, 2022, 01:15:43 AM »
Also found a Brimstone butterfly on my travels ... 2022/03/28:
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« Reply #13 on: April 16, 2022, 01:17:32 AM »
Comma Butterfly dated 2022/03/22:
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« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2022, 01:19:09 AM »
Another Brimstone butterfly, 2022/03/22:
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