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This waterfall was featured in part 3 of Secret Britain on BBC TV on Sunday 29th August. Unlike Matt Baker I didn't go swimming in the plunge pool.
Darkness was approaching on our safari. This guy seemed oblivious to our safari van. Hornbills are medium sized birds
Nesting Common Tern - New York, East Coast, USA
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I was at a place and managed to take this photo of a large skipper with it's wings closed (they are so cute!). Skippers in general are small butterflies, with a wingspan of around 20-30mm. When flying, it's just a tiny, orange butterfly.
Travelling on business to-day. Luckily I took a few pics when up in the air. This is my side view of the engine as we started our descent into Southampton Airport (This was taken at about 15,000 feet).
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This photo of a male Green Honeycreeper was taken on 20 March 2017, the last day of our trip to Trinidad & Tobago. The common name comes from the female, which is a very definite green, unlike the turquoise of the male.
"The green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. It is the only member of the genus Chlorophanes.
The male is mainly blue-tinged green with a black head and a mostly bright yellow bill. The female green honeycreeper is grass-green, paler on the throat, and lacks the male's iridescence and black head. Immatures are plumaged similar to females.
This is a forest canopy species. The female green honeycreeper builds a small cup nest in a tree, and incubates the clutch of two brown-blotched white eggs for 13 days. It is less heavily dependent on nectar than the other honeycreepers, fruit being its main food (60%), with nectar (20%) and insects (15%) as less important components of its diet." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_honeycreeper
This adventure was only the second holiday of any kind, anywhere, that I have had in something like 30 or 35 years! The other holiday was a wonderful, one-week trip with my great friends from England, Linda and Tony, when we went down south to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons in September 2012. I have had maybe half a dozen weekends away, including to Waterton National Park, which have helped keep me going.
Six birding/photographer friends and I decided that we would take this exciting trip together (from 12-21 March 2017), spending the first two or three days on the island of Tobago and then the rest of the time at the Asa Wright Nature Centre on the nearby, much larger island of Trinidad. We decided to take a complete package, so everything was included - accommodation at both places, all our food, and the various walks and day trips that we could choose from. Two of my friends, Anne B. and Brenda, saw to all the planning of flights and accommodations, which was so very much appreciated by the rest of us. I could never have done all this myself! We were so lucky with our flights, as we were just in time to get Black Friday prices, which were 50% off!
What a time we had, seeing so many beautiful and interesting things - and, of course, everything was a lifer for me. Some of these friends had visited Costa Rica before, so were familiar with some of the birds. There was a lot more to see on Trinidad, so we were glad that we chose Tobago to visit first and then spend a longer time at Asa Wright. It was wonderful to be right by the sea, though, at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago. Just gorgeous.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre, on Trinidad, is such an amazing place! We stayed in cabins up or down hill from the main building. Really, one doesn't need to travel away from the Centre for birding, as so many different species visit the Hummingbird feeders that are right by the huge, open veranda, and the trees of the rain forest high up the mountainous road. The drive up and down this narrow, twisting, pot-holed road was an adventure in itself! Never would I ever do this drive myself - we had a guide who drove us everywhere in a minibus. I had read many accounts of this road, lol! There was enough room for two vehicles to pass each other, and the honking of horns was almost continuous - either to warn any vehicle that might be coming fast around the next bend or as a sign that drivers knew each other. The drive along this road, from the coast to Asa Wright, took just over an hour each way.
I still miss the great food that was provided every single day at Asa Wright and even the Rum Punch that appeared each evening. I never drink at all, so I wasn't sure if I would even try the Punch - glad I did, though, as it was delicious and refreshing. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were all served buffet-style, with a great variety of dishes from which to choose. To me, pure luxury. So very, very grateful to have been invited to be part of this amazing adventure.
This is a video that I came across on YouTube, taken by Rigdon Currie and Trish Johnson, at many of the same places we visited on Trinidad and Tobago. Not my video, but it made me feel like I was right there still. Posting the link here again, so that I won't lose it.
I also came across the following 27-minute YouTube video of the flora and fauna of Trinidad, filmed by John Patrick Smith in February 2015.
I was not happy with the VW Bully that I'd copied from Jon Elliott. The front had an upward bump like the newer models, not the old T3, and the curved back was just meh. Additionally the door was too narrow - 5-wide door and 5-wide room towards the back to open it would be the right proportions - fixed that too.
Took me some hours, as usual.
Addition to Toy Project Day 2796
“Timeless yet timeworn, grand but intimate, oblivious to the passing centuries even as the jungle devours its huge stone walls, Angkor Wat and the scores of temples that surround it hint at eternity, only to remind us that nothing is eternal.” – Seth Mydans, The New York Times
The crowds and humidity are stifling when doing the obligatory postcard sunrise shot of Angkor Wat. Here’s a simple photo tip if you ever decide to make it out the beautiful temples of Angkor. The sun rises behind Angkor Wat, so to avoid the crowds and to photograph the temple bathed in warm, soft light head off to the side where you will be in complete solitude. The only people you may encounter are the park employees and their children.
I used the tree branches off in the corners to frame the shot and waited for one of the employees to ride by in a bicycle to add more of a dynamic element.
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