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We have recently returned from Costa Rica.
Whilst primarily a road (and river!) trip with friends, I was keen to see and photograph Quetzal's and Tamandua's (more of them another day!)
We spent a few nights in the San Gerado de Dota region.
It was early in the nesting season when we visited and I quickly learned than once you had the good fortune of finding an active nesting site (they nest in holes in trees) there is an awful lot of tail feather waving to watch!
Sometimes this is accompanied by clouds of wood dust, the product of the male birds hard work to impress the female with is excavating skills...
But every now an again, the male will decide enough is enough, and appear at the nest entrance...
...and scoot off for a well earned break!
He will languish in an adjacent tree (very, very occasionally in decent light)
...and the female will fly over to inspect his work:
Apparently not content, his endavours continue:
Whilst primarily a road (and river!) trip with friends, I was keen to see and photograph Quetzal's and Tamandua's (more of them another day!)
We spent a few nights in the San Gerado de Dota region.
It was early in the nesting season when we visited and I quickly learned than once you had the good fortune of finding an active nesting site (they nest in holes in trees) there is an awful lot of tail feather waving to watch!
Sometimes this is accompanied by clouds of wood dust, the product of the male birds hard work to impress the female with is excavating skills...
But every now an again, the male will decide enough is enough, and appear at the nest entrance...
...and scoot off for a well earned break!
He will languish in an adjacent tree (very, very occasionally in decent light)
...and the female will fly over to inspect his work:
Apparently not content, his endavours continue:
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