Into Mindo Valley – Sachatamia Lodge
Sachatamia Lodge was our home for three days during our Ecuador Birding Tour. Set in the middle of the Mindo Valley it was perfectly positioned to be our base of…
GBP Bird Photograph of the Week – 2/21/25
I know I’ve featured several owl pics lately but I couldn’t resist this one. Many people went up to Sax Zim Bog this winter just to capture the Boreal Owl…
GBH Sequence
I’m a sucker for sequence pics (a series of shots showing an activity). GBP member anamour36 patiently captured a Great Blue Heron pair as they went through a courtship ritual…
Hummingbirds of Yanacocha
Hummingbirds tend to frustrate me on two levels. First, I find when there are a lot of species present they can be hard to identify: the male and female of…
A Shot Of BIFS Please
GBP members with us for a while know I am partial to BIF (Bird In Flight) shots so today I’m featuring two from mikeaff and two from Avneet Kaur. Take…
Out of Quito to Reserva Yanacocha
After one day in Quito we were up and at ’em at 6 AM and on the road by 7, heading toward Sachatamia Lodge in the heart of Mindo Valley,…
GBP Bird Photograph Of The Week – 2/14/25
Since it is Valentine’s Day it only seems fitting to feature a bird with the color of the day – red! Bajadreamer shared this Northern Cardinal and, as he usually…
It’s Raining Pelicans!
On a recent stay in the U.S. Virgin Islands we stayed in an AirBnB condo overlooking Water Bay on the NE side of the island. Looking down on the bay…
Wonderful World Of Color
Our GBP members have recently shared some images with a lot of color in them: color in the background or color in the bird. Take a look: Paul Demkovich was…
Multi-Image Pages
Once in a while our New Zealand naturalist Rebecca Bowater will share a page which contains several images of the same bird on it. I enjoy looking at different views…
Birding A City Park in Quito, Ecuador
Our First Day in Ecuador (see the bottom of the page for links to previous posts) We started our journey to Ecuador on a sour note. We booked the early…
GBP Bird Photograph of the Week – 2/7/25
When I was scanning the thumbnails in the Latest Pics section I skipped over this shot from Bajadreamer. Luckily I went back and clicked on it to see it at…