I got to photograph a number of different birds in the parrot family while in Brazil, but I think this Blue-winged Macaw might have been the most cooperative and photogenic. I tried to get some shots of it in flight to really show off its…
Category: Nature
During some hikes around Visconde de Mauá, we saw these butterflies. Every angle I looked at it revealed something new. Whether it is that purple patch that comes and goes with the angle of the light, or those beautiful 88’s on the underside of the…
Honestly, I had hoped to find more weird bugs when I was in Brazil… but here are a couple I managed to find.
Rounding out this first set of tanagers (I am pretty sure there will be plenty more) is a pair of Burnished-buff Tanagers. They didn’t visit the fruit very many times, but I was lucky enough to get photos of both the male and female.
Another tanager and another visitor to the fruit we put out while in Teresópolis, this pair of Sayaca Tanagers were probably the most frequent visitor to the fruit, often chasing away other birds.
Samara had the idea to put some fruit out for the birds and one of the first visitors was this pair of Golden-chevroned Tanagers (Thraupis ornata). It is a species endemic to Brazil, so this is another nice find to add to my species list.
Black Capuchin Monkey or Macaco Prego Preto in Portugese (Sapajus nigritus) spotted in Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos during one of our first hikes. We spotted a second one (the last two photos) but I did not get very good photos of it. In fact…
Samara spotted this pair of Green-backed Trogons or sometimes also called Amazonian White-tailed Trogons (Trogon viridis) on the property at our first Airbnb. We watched them for a bit and noticed that they appeared to be building a nest (I looked it up and they…
I got to see another species of Coati while I was in Brazil. Though they do look similar to the White-nosed Coati that I saw in Arizona, I think they are a different species. The encounter was pretty brief and the light was failing so…
Some Harbor Seals basking in the Californian sun.
A variety of crustaceans from the Pacific Northwest waters…
I managed to find several spiders while in Death Valley National Park…. The first two were pretty well hidden, but just catching a glint of light off of their webs and a little patience looking for them worked well. I would have loved to have…
This coyote hung out with me for a good amount of time… I was sitting in my car while it wandered back and forth in the fields on both sides of the dirt road I was on. Right up until some other guy pulled up…
These Squat Urchin Shrimp (Gnathophylloides mineri) are usually pretty tricky to get a decent photograph of… they tend to be pretty shy and with all those spines, they have plenty of places to hide….
Baby bison are called Red Dogs
