| The Puerto Rico Excursion, January 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Day 3 The Atlantic Shore 2010-01-04 |
||||
|
|
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The morning lizard | Our apartment in the forest | The male Lamponius had not moved much from the previous night | A typical cemetary, this in Luquillo | Flower of an orchidtree, Bauhinia purpurea L., in the Luquillo beach parking lot |
|
|
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Not all the palms bore coconuts; I suspect this is Gaussia attenuata (O.F. Cook) Becc. | A flowering shrub, Ixora coccinea L., in the Luquillo beach parking lot |
The beach at Luquillo | Waves breaking on the coral reefs offshore | Foraging greater Antillean grackles, Quiscalus niger (Boddaert) |
|
|
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| A spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularia (Linné), in winter plumage |
Zenaida doves, Zenaida aurita (Temminck), were very common on the beach |
Luquillo beach overflown by a pair of what look to be frigatebirds (Fregata magnificens Matthews) | A specimen of the female of Homo sapiens Linné in shoreline garb |
|
|
|
||||
 |
 |
|||
| The Caribbean pine, Pinus caribaea Morelet |
A coconut palm, Cocoa nucifera L. |
|||
|
|
||||
| Click on an image to load it in a new browser window. Be aware that the images are very large! | ||||
|
|
||||
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | ||||
|
|
||||
|
[ Copyright © 2010 cfmoxey ]
[ Questions? E-mail me ] [ Page created 2010-01-28 ][ Page revised 2010-04-26 ] [ xhtml validation ] [ css validation ] |
||||
|
|
||||
|
[ http://www.profelis.org/tageblaetter/puerto_rico_2010_s03.html ]
|
||||
|
|
||||