by simpleDesigns | Feb 12, 2009 | Birding, Photography, Travel
“Jacamars are long-billed birds that sally for flying insects (moths, butterflies) and then usually return to their initial perches, upon which they beat their prey before consuming it. “ Birds of Peru. I was able to photograph two different species…. The White-eyed...
by simpleDesigns | Feb 12, 2009 | Birding, Photography, Travel
When I first started planning to travel to “the jungle” to see birds, I had images of parrots, parakeets and toucans in my head. They seemed to represent the jungle and I wanted to get a couple of good images. Here are several of these birds. The first is one of the...
by simpleDesigns | Feb 5, 2009 | Birding, Photography, Travel
Much of our trip to Peru was spent looking for very small birds in the jungle/forest. Most days, we loaded into 20’ skiffs and patrolled the back waters of the Amazon river with binoculars at the ready. Each boat had 3 professional guides equipped with IPods and...
by simpleDesigns | Feb 4, 2009 | Birding, Photography, Travel
Tina and I are back from an awesome week in the Peruvian/Amazon rainforest. The overnight flight from Lima to Atlanta took a bit out of us and we are catching up on sleeppier . I am slowly processing over 20Gb of pictures from the week on the Amazon and will post them...
by simpleDesigns | Jan 17, 2009 | Birding, Photography, Travel
Next week, Tina and I will be accompanying my parents to Peru for a week long excursion on the Amazon River. We will be staying on a live a board, named La Amatista. We will traveling from Lima to Iquitos, the largest city in the world, not accessible by road. From...
by simpleDesigns | Jan 17, 2009 | Birding
The consensus in the neighborhood (among us old guys), is that we have at least 3 Pileated Woodpeckers living in the park. One might assume that we have a pair and a young. I believe that this is the young one of the threesome.
