Spent today focusing on macro photography and practising using my shiny new Canon 100mm f2.8L macro lens. After checking out the moth light, Rachel and I walked part of the Brown and Light Blue trails as well as part of the wetland, looking for any interesting invertebrates, of which there are many. However, macro photography is no easier than telephoto photography in the dark understorey of the rainforest, so I mostly managed blurred shots, but here's a few of the bugs I did manage to get reasonable pics of. I haven't a clue what species some of these are so if you can identify any then I'd like to hear from you.
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Female Telebasis corallina, near post 50 of the Wetland Trail (thanks to Tom
Kompier for the identification) |
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Phenax variegata - a species of planthopper (infraorder Fulgoromorpha, family
Fulgoridae) found only in South America. The strange white extensions are a
form of defence - detaching when a predator catches it, allowing it to escape. |
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| Cricket sp. |
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| Paper wasp sp.? |
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| Stink bug sp. |
Bird sightings were few today. The crazy male Burnished-buff Tanager was again attacking its own reflection in the lodge windows (as it does most mornings) and the usual Swallow-tailed Hummingbirds, Black Jacobins and Glittering-throated Emeralds were at the feeders in the garden. We also had good views of a pair of White-flanked Antwren on the Brown Trail and an Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant on the Light Blue Trail.
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