On May 17th, 2020 I wrote "my final blog post and final blog photos." I didn't know it at the time, but I was still over a year from retirement. Work was so busy. The pandemic was raging. Google had changed some features of Google Blogger which I did not have the time or patience to figure out. I never did download all of my photos from India and never completed my India trip blog. I wrote my little essay, added three photos of Green-billed Malkoha and threw in the towel.
Even before, and in the time since, other friends have called it quits on their blogs as well. Perhaps not as officially as I did, but some very good blogs are no longer active. The pandemic was hard on a lot of things. After calling it quits, I considered other platforms for my photos. I recalled one of the participants on my India trip saying to me, with derision, "I never read blogs." Facebook, Instagram, eBird, Flickr - all of my ideas in those directions never met the light of day.
Of course, I haven't really had many photos to post. Hopefully, this will change. Costa Rica was my first out-of-country trip since the onset of the pandemic. I was so out of practice. Even packing was a challenge. On the trip I kept losing things. I couldn't find or see the birds. I fumbled with my camera. And, after all this time, here I am again using Google Blogger. This time my goal will be fun.
So, with fun in mind, my favorite trip bird - just because they were so cooperative and cute and a little crazy looking too - Common Tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum).
And nest building.
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