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Marty’s photo of the day #4489: During Deb’s and my first few days on Bonaire, every flamingo sighting warranted a stop. Now, after two weeks, they are basically pigeons. Just kidding. We’ll still stop from time to time to watch them. And we see them in light pink, deep pink, and basic white. There’s a […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4488: If I could figure out a way to bring this mother and her foal back to Montana with me, I would! Humans brought donkeys to Bonaire in the 1600s to perform manual labor. Later, machines replaced the donkeys, and they were abandoned to roam the island. Wild donkeys have […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4487: Yesterday, Deb and I drove to the northern end of Bonaire for a second visit of Washington-Slagbaai National Park. At midday, we found an out-of-the-way picnic table and enjoyed a delightful lunch, accompanied by thirty or so blauw-blauw (six-inch-long whiptail lizards with bright blue tails). The blauw-blauw obviously knew […]
Deb and I had another outstanding day on the island of Bonaire. First, we went to Washington-Slagbaai National Park on the north end of the island. We had intended to visit the two springs in the park that attract birds, but we didn’t have the luck we had the last time we were there. Today, […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4486: Bonaire has a dry climate, and there are only two tiny freshwater springs in Washington-Slagbaai National Park. While Deb and I were staking out one of those springs earlier in our trip, this black-crowned night heron flew in to join us. Today we are headed back to Washington-Slagbaai National […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4485: Bonaire has a dry climate, and there are only two tiny freshwater springs in Washington-Slagbaai National Park (which takes up the northern quarter of the island). Those springs were outstanding for birding, and I will be posting quite a few bird portraits from them in the coming weeks. A […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4484: Humans brought donkeys to Bonaire in the 1600s to perform manual labor. Later, machines replaced the donkeys, and they were abandoned by the humans. Bad humans! Good donkeys! As such, wild donkeys still roam the island. They have a tough life here, and being that Bonaire has a dry […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4481: Deb and I spent part of yesterday on the balcony of the condo we are renting in Bonaire, watching frigatebirds soar and feed. Photographing them was a challenge, however, because the birds changed direction often, and they were at the outer limits of my most powerful lens. I think […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4480: Greetings from Bonaire. When traveling, I enjoy the challenge of finding and photographing exotic snakes, but here there is only one, tiny underground snake—so that’s not gonna happen. Replacing that challenge are exotic birds. And photographing fast-moving ones—like this ruby-topaz hummingbird—are, indeed, a challenge.
Marty’s photo of the day #4479: Greetings from Bonaire! Today, Deb and I drove to the quiet side of the island and spent the day at Washington-Slagbaai National Park. The park contains a maze of rough gravel roads, giving our rental truck the workout it deserved. I hadn’t driven a manual transmission since growing up […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4477: Greetings from Miami! Yesterday, Deb and I started our two-day trip to the island of Bonaire to celebrate our 40th anniversary. We flew from Missoula to Dallas to Miami. In Miami, we had a 12-hour layover, so we stayed in a hotel at the airport. Hopefully, our luggage spent […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4476: Here’s a scenic shot, taken this past July at the American Prairie in Montana. We didn’t see another person all day!
Marty’s photo of the day #4474: “Tell me again what JD Vance said about cat ladies.” (Canada lynx, rescue animal, photographed at the Essen Wildlife Refuge in Montana.)
Marty’s photo of the day #4472: A gentoo penguin parent watches over his/her sleeping chick on an island off the coast of Antarctica.
Marty’s photo of the day #4471: The dragonflies have had a prosperous summer, eating mosquitos at the seasonal pond on the lower level of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. Last night, this dragonfly flew to the upper level, where my outside office is, and said, “Please, I can’t eat anymore. I must rest!” This is a […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4468: In 2013, I was on a college speaking tour that provided me with two days off along the Arizona-California border. I made use of those days by exploring the Mojave National Preserve. The MNP is basically seldom-visited desert, with scattered mountains. My best find was this magnificent desert tortoise, […]
