I always seem to see the best wildlife whenever my camera is lost, broken or out of batteries. So when I realized that I left my cameria in DC and was going into Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname with only my camera phone, I had a good feeling about the day. And after the phone battery quickly died, it was all uphill from there, as far as the wildlife goes. The final tally, from this Guiana Shield rainforest during the dry season:
-three DayGlo yellow and black Three-Striped Poison Dart Frogs
-some other little brown frog
-an awesome Crimson-Crested Woodpecker
-an agouti (far cuter than it’s English name of “bushrat” suggests)
-a DayGlo green and brown lizard
-an orange crab, underneath a 30 foot waterfall (very refreshing swim after sweating through the bush)
-a squirrel monkey
-bats
-a morpho and some other great butterflies
-these big black and white ground birds called kami kami?
-parades of leaf-cutter ants
-a monkey and a toucan, couldn’t tell what type.
Not a bad day.
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