Yesterday at dusk just before it turned dark, this beautiful creator had appeared in the garden of the house where I'm staying, it was looking for a place to sleep over and pass the night, and it seems one of the trees in the garden could serve that purpose.
Because butterflies are cold blooded creators (meaning their body temperature is usually similar and adjust according to their external surroundings) there movements are getting slower as the general temperature and also light decrease.
Cows and monkeys are usual things in many streets of India, here I saw this cow following the pilgrims crossing the bridge over the river in Rishikesh-Tapovan, on another incident two bulls who I guess are not permitted to walk freely in the streets had met each other in the main street and started a ramming contests much to the joy of the local people in the street and the dismay of the owners who came running shamefully to get the bulls back and stop fighting..
In my country we don't have humming birds, only sun birds which look very similar similar but don't fly so actively and fast as the humming birds, this year I managed to see quite a few first on the Salkantay trail in Peru, and then later in the el tigre park in Costa Rica next to Monteverde town.
They were flying so fast around the flower garden next to reception of the park.
First time I ever saw a hummingbird was in Iguazú town in Argentina, just outside the hotel.
A fly catcher this bird is very common and easy to see in the Amazon, but at my home in Israel, it's not easy to see fly catcher, they just pop out of a tree or a bush and disappear so fast, but they are different species in very different areas of the world.
The Amazon river goes forever and ever, some say it's the longest river in the world going for about 7000 km from the Andes of Peru to the coast of Brazil, I dreamed all my childhood to visit places like this although the conditions of travel wasn't the safest and it is so far away and the climate was very hard, I'm thankful for being able to visit here twice in my life.
Curious capuchin monkeys looking at me from the trees only two meters above, they seem intrigued by the presence of humans but also show signs of egression, warning me not to get to close, indeed a beautiful animal.
Costa Rica, Osa peninsula, Puerto Jiménez-Crocovado park.
Walking down the back side of the Salkantay pass the lush high mountain jungle of Peru was revealed with all it's glory, many beautiful flowers had revealed themselves and different types of hummingbirds and song birds were singing and feeding among them.
While walking a trail in the jungle next to the Amazon River, I had a rare chance to see a sloth female from 1 meter distance and one meter high on a small tree, she probably went to take a bath at the river and maybe needed to use it also for toilets, as she noticed me she started claiming rapidly to higher place on the tree. What a beautiful and interesting animal!!
Costa Rica, December 2022, a beautiful day at Bona Vista Beach Samara coast town (pacific ocean), many sardines gather in the shallow water, as well as the predatory fish, ocean birds and many pelicans who came to feed on them.