Saturday, 18 March 2006

Amazon treking 2

The forest floor is a place for decomposition
and on this fallen log were to found a whole
host of different fungi, so many that it
took me two shots to get them all in!!




More fungi, different log..

Here's a nice little bird...a wire-tailed manakin
(the male bird charms a potential mate by "tickling"
her with his "wire tail" feathers!) The wire-tail
in question is, sadly, not very distinct in this shot.
It is a photo I am proud of however!



Here's another species of manakin: the dwarf-tyrant
manakin known locally as "God's eye" apparently
because, being difficult to see God alone must be able
to! (Well, it wasn't that hard for us actually....it sat
on a branch "hiccupping" loudly!)

No comments: