Photos from Costa Rica are up at my SmugMug site

here: http://northernvisions.smugmug.com/gallery/15666871_df5RB#1174256978_ranwT

If any of you world travelers can help me with captions on some of the buildings in San Jose or the birds in Montezuma, I would be thrilled. Especially those very colorful chicken-like birds that I have three pictures of. They were gorgeous.

On the birds, have no clue but maybe try What Bird. They have a place you can upload photos and people can identify them. Back to look at more pictures.

that I took so many pictures of -- they walked around outside the house like chickens, pecking at the ground and hoping that we would throw them some fruit scraps (which we did). They were totally awesome, beautiful birds. I took quite a few pics of the magpie, as well. He, too, was quite friendly, taking a piece of bread from Jim's fingers and standing around on the railing waiting for someone to give him a treat. He reminded me of the camprobber birds that we have up here, although he was much, much flashier.

On the beach where Kristina lives, if you sit still and watch the sand for a few minutes, it all starts moving from all the life crawling around in it, little crabs and beetles and things living in shells. I don't think I've ever been in a place that seems more alive.

look forward to them.
I had visiting family for a few days and there was no leisure. What you are saying about everything in the environs ultimately being alive is quite true, here is a sentence from an email my friend in Arenal/Costa Rica sent me this morning:


'Nother funny story, sort of. As I was flushing the toilet a big frog jumped out. Must have been hiding under the rim. If he'd jumped out while I was sitting there and hit me in the ass I would not have been a rational person.

I like that you backed the camera up and showed more of the beach.The birds are colorful but I have no clue what they are. The begging and letting themselves be hand fed sounds like Maui. You have to be careful eating outside or they would come grabbed it out of your mouth. lol Terry didn't help as he was enchanted and feeding them constantly. Love all you photos and green with envy as I look at all the snow that may stay until May.

You did a magnificent job as I had expected you would, and the colors and feel of the country along with the beauty of it and the people are all there!
You were letting me see areas I had not been to, since I have only gone to San Jose and then the center of Costa Rica, to Arenal.
The beaches are fascinating to see, I gasped at the photo "patterns in the sand" and then also loved the "sandpipers" and ALL the animal photos, especially the monkeys.
I heard the loud monkeys in the heights of the rain forests, but only saw a few of them once.
I would unfortunately never know the names of the birds, but I won't ever forget the colors and the shapes.

A magnificent set of pictures. Thank you Blue!

I've ever heard -- almost more like a very loud warble rather than a howl. They would come around often early in the morning and wake us up with their calls. We were so lucky to see this group really quite close up on the last day we were in Montezuma. The tree they were in was maybe 50 yards from the house and they didn't seem to be disturbed at all as we were milling around on the ground trying to find the best vantage point. I loved the two mothers with their babies. (I think I only posted pictures of one mom, but there was a second one a little higher up in the trees.)

next to it is some type of Heron, but not sure which one.

:)

Th other looks like a heron.

OK, I think it is a Tiger Heron. There's several types, so I don't know which one.

On Page 5 that's a Squirrel Cookoo. The Bill tipped me off that it was some type of Cookoo. The tail and coloration gave me the three points for identification.

I'm not much of a birder, so didn't know where to look.

right direction with each of those birds. The only one that had me stumped, you had ID'd already.