A thrilling day on the trails brought me many of Tandayapa's most special birds, although before we get to that story here is an "upgrade" I enjoyed today. After last weeks close up of a female Golden-headed Quetzal emerging from its nest cavity, today I was treated to the gem-like male poking his head out of the hole...it may not have the extravagant tail of Costa Rica's celebrity quetzal (the resplendent), although there's nothing wrong with the rest of it!
More to come from a top notch Tandayapa day today...
This is a really lovely bird, yet I especially am fasciated by the gorgeous bird in your banner, what a magnificent image, stark cold and showing off the subject beautifully~
A pair of tits (Blue and Great) in a London park 30 years back changed my life; I became a birder, and an obsessive birder by the following weekend. Works like Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book and Richard Millington's A Twitcher's Diary helped in no small part to nurture this in my formative years.
30 years on I am still an avid birder but have also learnt to appreciate other sectors of the natural world, especially frogs and primates in particular, through the undoubted influence of David Attenborough The Great and others. I now work as a full-time professional tour leader for Tropical Birding Tours, and now reside in the Andes of Ecuador. I love my job, sharing birds with people provides every bit of a buzz as a lifebird, which, of course, still creates a wave of excitement every time. I have been lucky enough to see well over 6550 bird species on my travels, which does not make me any more talented than anyone else, just one that is always greedy and impatient for more, which has taken me to all seven continents, and always yearning for that ONE...MORE...B-I-R-D!
I use Swarovski binoculars & scope, & shoot with Canon 7D and Canon 400m f5.6L lens.
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This is a really lovely bird, yet I especially am fasciated by the gorgeous bird in your banner, what a magnificent image, stark cold and showing off the subject beautifully~
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