Mind Blowing Beauty

Most people assosiate safaris with big game, African savanahs, and the sounds of frogs and crickets. The literal meaning of safari is an overland expedition so a birding trip could be though of as a safari…

David J Ringer Is a bird man. He has seen close to a thousand bird speicies up till now and is currently on a continent hop after the next bird.

MORAVIA, COSTA RICA - You are in a place so still that a falling leaf makes you jump, so tranquil that a buzzing insect makes you flinch. You are breathing off bits of a cloud, for it is all around you. You begin to wonder whether the thunder really is coming from the sky you cannot see or instead from an invisible mountain across the valley, bidding goodnight to its neighbor. And there is birdsong, always there is birdsong, ethereal, strident, modest, wild.

This mossy tree looks like a prop from a fantasy movie. Hard to believe places like this exist and even harder to believe that places like this exist and support a multitude of life forms and us westerners, in our infinite self absorption are probably going to ruin these places some day soon…

these are only a few of the breath taking pictures on his blog which I highly recommend visiting.