Costa Rica

[srblough]

Just back from a week at Drake Bay in Costa Rica. On the last day I was at the beach by myself and 6 Scarlet Macaws flew in and started feeding in the tree over my head.
[not sure what happened here - all that white space on the right is not in the file I uploaded.]

[SARtech]

That must have been so cool. I can only imagine what it would be like to see these guys flying around outside of a cage.

[srblough]

It was pretty incredible. I shot 100+ frames, many better exposed etc. but nothing beat that lucky shot of the landing. Here's a Capuchin monkey on the tree by the lodge.

[Eric D]

Nice captures!! Costa is so awesome...will be there myself May 7th.

So cool to see the Macaws fying in overhead, cant wait! Nice job on the inflight!

[paulnj]

very nice images! I would love to see more.

[srblough]

Thanks! Here's a squirrel monkey, a pootoo (owl relative) and a caiman. The squirrel monkey is especially noisy from enlargement, but most of my images from the trip are a bit noisy because I was largely shooting in the shade with at f/5.6 or slower so I just left the camera (D90) at ISO 3200. Going to be offline for a couple of days but will post more when I get back if there's interest.

[paulnj]

Awesome, I love pootoos!

[KevinLormand]

Amazing shots, especially love the caimen.

[scott-devon]

Very nice shots, makes me anxious to return.

[srblough]

Moving from the animal to the vegetable ...

[paulnj]

Is that first one a huge tree?

[srblough]

Not really huge, you're just seeing the bottom 3 feet .
The other one was really tall; appears to be two trees grown together 20ft above ground level. Above at 20mm focal length, here it is at 75mm. Can't decide which one I like better.

[paulnj]

that was the one I was asking about I would love to climb that thing and find the amazing wildlife that lives in it

[srblough]

Absolutely. Shortly before that a group of spider monkeys came through the treetops high above, afraid this is the best I could do ...

[paulnj]

Better than nothing at all

[srblough]

Indeed! Just wish I had something decent of the howler monkeys (black faces made them especially tough).