Underwater photography
John, an Austrailian visiting Las Cruces, set up his camera on a piece of bamboo to get some underwater shots of fish. There were a few good ones of characids investigating the camera. He intends on pioneering this method in stream ecology circles.
Great Tinamou
Nope, just a feather of Tinamu major.
Headed to Las Cruces
Dam along Río Java
The streams at Las Cruces are fairly impacted. There are a handful of smaller streams (1st-2nd order) that drain only secondary or primary forest, but most of the larger streams run through some abandoned pasture or have some sort of flow management impact like this one. My students are interested in water quality, so these impacts make for good gradients to survey.
Satiny Parrot Snake
I’m a little rusty on photographing… plus, I didn’t have my flash with me at the time of encountering this parrot snake (Leptophis sp.), so the photos I got were pretty poor. In any case, this is one of two species that occur on the caribbean slope: L. ahaetulla or L. depressirotris.
Cicada
Railroad over tributary of Rio Estrella
Boa and I swam in the warm waters beneath the bridge.
Green and Black Poison Dart Frog
Dendrobates aurotus in Valle de Las Estrella.
At the edge of some bambu on Boa’s property (between 5 and 10 acres), there is a good number of herps, including this guy. We also encountered a tropical night lizard.
Rio Hitoy
