13:30 No snake seen today, but I got little sleep from thinking about my new slithering friend - I also had a midnight snack where there was a Grey-necked Wood Rail prancing around making an absolute racket. I also discovered recently my bed must have termites (or ants) in the wood as I keep finding small perfectly formed piles of sand left on my bed sheet.
This morning I got on the offensive in
filling in the missing jigsaw pieces of my working level Spanish, and I saw an
incredibly beautiful eyespot moth which I got a couple of photos of:
I was further interrupted by a phone called from ICE (not pronounced or to do with ice but the Costa Rican telecoms people). This meant I had to run to the gate (roughly a 20min walk) where they sat in a large van, and left the gate to the entrance "dummy locked" as I thought it would be a brief visit and not 4 hours. So after speaking to DL I went back and locked it. Around the entrance I saw many butterflies (blue morpho, yellow swallowtails upon others) and took some flower photos too.
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| Leaf? Eyes? Pink Furry Moth (D.Philpot) |
I was further interrupted by a phone called from ICE (not pronounced or to do with ice but the Costa Rican telecoms people). This meant I had to run to the gate (roughly a 20min walk) where they sat in a large van, and left the gate to the entrance "dummy locked" as I thought it would be a brief visit and not 4 hours. So after speaking to DL I went back and locked it. Around the entrance I saw many butterflies (blue morpho, yellow swallowtails upon others) and took some flower photos too.
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| Flower Shot 1 (D.Philpot) |
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| Flower Shot 2 (D.Philpot) |
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| Some Fruit The Monkeys Eat (D.Philpot) |
Upon returning I also got photos of my
new 'stripe-back' lizard friend in the kitchen - now for lunch, while awaiting
DL's call back.
At 13:00 a mummy Howler beat up a male in a pretty big fight above the El Comedor main lodge, and I found some bugs were trying to get into some Pochote tree seeds I had dropped on the floor:
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| A Young Anole (D.Philpot) |
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| Young Anole - Side (D.Philpot) |
At 13:00 a mummy Howler beat up a male in a pretty big fight above the El Comedor main lodge, and I found some bugs were trying to get into some Pochote tree seeds I had dropped on the floor:
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| Looks Like Bug Football (D.Philpot) |
18:30 I saw 15-20 White-Faced Capuchins
(with 3 babies!) move through the 'mangrove tree area' by the beach where they
were breaking open seeds and snails using sticks and rocks - They also threw
some things at me. Later I spoke to DL again as well as one of the cooks
(Caballo) and Caballita joking around before I sat down to dive back into
learning more about Nudibranchs (which are frilly/pretty sea slugs by the way)
whilst a lot of various different insects were flying about. I think my
favourite behaviour about sea slugs is when they perform what is called
"rearing" and have observed the behaviour here a couple of times when
I've spotted them. Saw another giant
moth tonight also… absolutely ridiculous I mean this truly is giant moth week
apparently, must be something in the air.
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| Pink & Yellow Moth (D.Philpot) |
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| Is It A Fighter Jet? No, It's A Moth (D.Philpot) |
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| Another Moth - Razor Edged (D.Philpot) |