Marty’s photo of the day #3596: Toucan in the rainforest of Costa Rica.
Toucan
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Blue morpho butterfly
Marty’s photo of the day #3576: Blue morpho butterflies are pretty with their wings closed. But when they open them—wow! Photographed in Costa Rica.
Hang on
Central American agouti
Marty’s photo of the day #3553: Today’s photo comes from Costa Rica. This is a Central American agouti—a rodent that can weigh up to nine pounds.
Skittish macaws
Marty’s photo of the day #3549: This won’t go down as my most crisp photo, but macaws are skittish. I had been trying to photograph them for the entire week I was in Costa Rica, and I finally got close enough for a few shots on the morning of my departure.
Brown Pelicans
James Bond Point
Marty’s photo of the day #3544: I came across this spot while kayaking along the coast of Costa Rica. I dubbed it “James Bond Point.” Can’t you see James Bond (preferably played by anyone other than Daniel Craig) in a speedboat chase scene, racing through this spot? At the last moment Bond would lunge up […]
Eyelash viper
Creatures of the night
Marty’s photo of the day #3515: Whenever I’m in a region of the world with a rainforest, my favorite thing to do is wait until dark and then head out with a flashlight. Often the creatures of the night look like they are from another planet. Here’s a katydid from one of my night hikes […]
Young howler/old howler
Marty’s photo of the day #3493: I haven’t posted any photos from Costa Rica for a while, so here’s a young howler monkey. Speaking of howlers . . . . Just one more day of the biggest crybaby howler of them all, Donald Trump!
Toucan
Marty’s photo of the day #3464: A high-resolution version of this toucan photo appears in my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico. (Photographed in Costa Rica.)
41 more days . . .
Marty’s photo of the day #3456: Never has the time between the Presidential Election in Inauguration Day moved so slowly. We still have 41 more days of the most incompetent, selfish, evil president in American history. All this waiting is making me crabby. (Photographed in Costa Rica)
Great curassow
Costa Rica tropical forest
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The killer pelican
Marty’s photo of the day #3439: The attack of the killer brown pelicans! I’m kind of pissed that I cut off the top of this pelican’s head, but humorous photos don’t need to be perfect. Photographed in Costa Rica.
White-faced capuchin
Marty’s photo of the day #3418: White-faced capuchins aren’t the most beautiful monkeys in the world, but being able to spend any time with any monkey in the wild is a privilege. Photographed in Costa Rica.
Artsy toucan
Marty’s photo of the day #3397: Photographing a toucan in Costa Rica’s rainforest is difficult, because tree branches always seem to be in the way, and if they’re not, then the lighting is inconsistent. Sometimes you just have to go artsy.
Howler monkey stare down
Costa Rica clouds
