Smooth-billed Ani

Two Yellow Throated Toucans

Posted on February 11, 2023

This was two of six or seven that landed in the tree across from where I’m staying at the Green Diamond in Uvita, Costa Rica.

Category: animal, bird, Feathers, Nature, Photography, Travel Tagged: animal, bird, Costa Rica, Uvita, yellow throated Toucan

White Ibis

Posted on February 10, 2023

I took this photo at the entrance to the mangrove swamp in the National Park Marino Ballena. It is about a mile from where I’m staying in Uvita, Costa Rica.

Category: animal, bird, Nature, Park, Photography, Travel Tagged: animal, bird, feathers, Nature, Photography, Timothy S. Allen, travel

Posted on January 31, 2023

Common Tody-Flycatcher: This uncommon flycatcher just caught a flying insect and was trying to sawallow it. It did so but with its back to me. I this bird from the second story at Le Diamante Vert where I’m staying.

Category: animal, bird, Nature, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged: animal, bird, common tody-flycatcher, Costa Rica, food, insect, le diamente vert, Uvita

Posted on January 26, 2023

Macaw in Flight

Category: Action, animal, bird, Nature, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged: animal, beak, bird, Costa Rica, fly, macaw, red, Uvita, wing

Posted on January 15, 2023

Female Scarlet-rumpled Tanager gathering dead banana leaves to carry to her nest. Uvita, Costa Rica.

Category: animal, bird, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged: bird, female., scarlet-rumpled Tananger

Posted on January 14, 2023

Grey-cowled Wood Rail was feeding on compose near the house where I’m staying in Uvita, Costa Rica.

Category: animal, bird, Feathers, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged: bird, compost, Costa Rica, gray-crowned, ground, Uvita, Wood Rail

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Boat-Billed Heron

Posted on December 11, 2022

Herons are a stocky medium-sized bird. Their bills are as wide as their heads, and they have large eyes that aid in night-hunting. Their beak is very sensitive, allowing them to feel out prey in murky water. They have a dark crown and flight feathers and a light underbelly and face.
Herons have a specialized downy feather that doesn’t molt and grows continuously throughout the bird’s life. The ends break off as a powder that the heron then uses while preening to waterproof its other feathers. Franklin Park Zoo, https://www.zoonewengland.org/franklin-park-zoo/our-animals/birds/boat-billed-heron/

Category: animal, bird, Boston, Nature, Photography, Travel Tagged: bill, bird, Bird's World, boat-billed heron, Boston, captive, eyes, fauna, feathers, Franklin Park Zoo, Photography, Timothy S. Allen

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Red Crested Tucaro

Posted on December 10, 2022

Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, MA.
The red-crested turaco is a turaco, a group of African Otidimorphae birds. It is a frugivorous bird endemic to western Angola. Its call sounds somewhat like a jungle monkey. Wikipedia

Category: animal, bird, Boston, Nature, Park, Photography, Travel Tagged: bird, Boston, flora, Franklin Park Zoo, green, MA, Photography, red, Red Crested Toraco, Timothy S. Allen

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Crabbing #4

Posted on August 22, 2022

Seagull eating crab's leg — Even the crab’s leg is eaten. No cracking tool just straight down the throat. Salmon River Estuary, north of Lincoln City Oregon.

Category: animal, bird, Nature, Oregon, Photography, Travel Tagged: animal, bird, catch, crab, eat, fauna, fly, leg, Lincoln City, Oregon, Otis, Photography, rock, Salmon River Estuary, seagull, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, swallow, Timothy S. Allen

Crabbing #3

Posted on August 21, 2022

seagull eat crab — This seagull caught this crab and brought it to the rocky shore. It dropped it and began tearing the meat from the crab’s underside. I took this photo on the Salmon River Estuary north of Lincoln City, Oregon.

Category: animal, bird, Nature, Oregon, Photography, Travel Tagged: animal, bird, crab, eat, fauna, fly, gray, Lincoln City, Otis, Photography, Salmon River Estuary, seagul, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Timothy S. Allen, white

Crabbing (cont.)

Posted on August 19, 2022

Seagull holding crab — The seagull has landed and will begin eating the crab it caught earlier. I photographed this on the Salmon River Estuary, north of Lincoln City, Oregon.

Category: animal, bird, Nature, Oregon, Photography, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Travel Tagged: animal, bird, catch, crab, eat, fauna, fly, land, Oregon, Otis, Photography, river, Salmon River Estuary, seagull, shore, Timothy S. Allen, water bird

Crabbing

Posted on August 18, 2022

Seagull flying with crab — The seagull just grabbed this crab and was flying to a dry spot to eat it. Salmon River Estuary north of Lincoln City Oregon.

Category: animal, bird, Nature, Oregon, Photography, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Travel Tagged: animal, bird, catch, crab, eat, fauna, fly, light, Oregon, Photography, Salmon River Estuary, seagull, shadow, Timothy S. Allen, Water

Learning to fly with a fish

Posted on July 24, 2022

Trying to fly — This fledgling osprey has picked up the fish that its mother has dropped in the nest and trying to fly with it – all part of the learning process.

Category: animal, bird, California, Nature, Photography, Sonoma County Tagged: animal, bird, bird of prey, California, fauna, fish, fledgling, Lake Sonoma, nest, osprey, Photography, Sonoma County, Timothy S. Allen

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Here’s Looking at You

Posted on July 18, 2022

3 osprey sitting in their nest — Father and two fledglings osprey in their nest.

Category: animal, bird, California, Nature, Photography, Sonoma County Tagged: bird, California, eyas, fauna, fledgling, Lake Sonoma, looking, nest, osprey, Photography, Raptor, sitting, Sonoma County, Timothy S. Allen

Testing its wings

Posted on July 15, 2022

Category: animal, bird, California, Nature, Photography, Sonoma County Tagged: bird, California, eyas, fauna, fledgling, Lake Sonoma, nest, osprey, Photography, Sonoma County, test, Timothy S. Allen, wing

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Landing

Posted on July 6, 2022

Category: animal, bird, California, Nature, Photography, Sonoma County Tagged: aerodynamics, bird, California, feathers, Lake Sonoma, landing, nest, osprey, Photography, Sonoma County, Timothy S. Allen, wing

Growing

Posted on June 26, 2022

Category: animal, bird, California, Nature, Photography, Sonoma County Tagged: animal, baby, bird, California, eyas, fauna, Lake Sonoma, nest, osprey, parent, Photography, Sonoma County, Timothy S. Allen

Sibling Rivalry (3 – 3)

Posted on June 17, 2022

sibling aggression. — The osprey eyas, who was the original aggressor seems to be cringing under the aggressive behavior of its sibling. The parent seems to be finally responding. When I first viewed the newly born birds there were three eyases. The aggression of its siblings may have resulted in its death. I took this photo at Lake Sonoma, Sonoma County, California.

Category: animal, bird, California, Nature, Photography, Sonoma County Tagged: aggression, animal, bird, California, fauna, Lake Sonoma, nest, osprey, parent, Photography, sibling, sibling rivalry, Sonoma County, Timothy S. Allen