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he red footed boobies nest in trees and can use their feet to hold onto branches. The grey chested birds are females…the ales have white chests.
Galapagos-RED footed Boobie
Category: Travels
Galapagos Hawk
This was one of the few non tagged hawks we saw. It must be younger. Several years ago the powers at be decided to poison all the rats. But then it killed the hawks that ate the rats. So then they tried to collect all the Hawks before they poisoned the rats again. (I know what your saying–how are they going to catch all a the hawks? Of COURSE THEY DIDNT! )So round two of killing off the hawks…
Galapgos-Land Iguanas
These guys live in the volcanic rock flows. The don’t really care if you are there. So you have to b careful not to step on their tails–then the do care!
Galapagos–Here’s looking at YOU
This one of my FAVORITE photos I took in the Galapagos. It’s of a Pelican resting. They often tuck their beaks under their feathers. I went around behind him (often getting a sneaker wave over my backside!) and sat on the ground so I could get a really low shot…Then he opened his eyes and stared straight at me!
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Galapagos female Flightless Cormorant
The female’s eyes are round and oh so beautiful!
Cormorants in the Galapagos have evolved to be flightless and do all their hunting underwater by swimming. They can no longer fly at all.
Galapagos Dolphins
So we got a shipwide wakeup call at 4:25am. The captain had spotted over a 1000 dolphin pod a mile away. It was the most miraculous thing I saw the whole trip. Thousands of dolphins in a long line in front of our boat all jumping 15ft in the air!
Unfortunately because of the humidity each morning I usually took my camera outside on deck for 45 minute or more so that it wouldn’t fog up. Needless to say I was fast asleep when the all on deck call occurred. I grabbed my camera and went upstairs only to be very frustrated along with every other photographer that my lens would not unfog. So these are taken about 25 minutes later when they were all jumped out, and very scattered in small pods again. But the light was very beautiful.
Galapagos–Father’s Day
This daddy Blue Footed Boobie was rolling over the eggs in the nest (yes it really is very shallow–and was on a slope to boot!)