Happy Superb Owl Sunday .... this one a Striped Owl taken at my farm in Costa Rica. Also : GO Birds!

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The Witch Head Nebula, IC 2118 , only 900 light years away. Thought to be the remnants of a supernova . Bit of a Rorschach test, but many see the witch's eye, hook nose, and open mouth with sharp chin . Seestar S50 , taken from my farm in Costa Rica .
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Another aptly named Galaxy : the Black Eye Galaxy. The dark band is from a dwarf galaxy that collided with it. Taken at our farm in Costa Rica using a Seestar S50 .

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Nebula NGC 2359, aptly known as Thor's Helmet is an emission nebula 12,000 light years from earth. It's blue color comes from the star in the center that is a pre stage supernova. Taken in Costa Rica with a Seestar S50

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NGC 2174 , known as the Monkey Head Nebula. A mere 6300 light years away. Taken last night in Costa Rica warming up my Seestar S50 for a night of astrophotography . If you rotate the image like I did, you can see the head of a monkey- well, I think I see it ;-)
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RIP David Lynch... loved your bizarreness. tenor.com/view/twin-pe...

For at least the last 10 years, this female Laughing Falcon has called our costa rican finca home . She is courting males right now. Sadly , the tree where she nested has fallen, but she has found another .
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A regional endemic , found only in Central America from Guatemala to Panama , the stunning Shining Honeycreeper likes the forest edge . This one photographed in Mastatal, Puriscal Costa Rica
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One of the most common , yet beautiful, birds here on the finca: A Lesson's Motmot . The Neotropic equivalent of Bee-eaters in Africa and Asia , residing in the same bird family
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I am slowly moving over here to Blue Sky, and will be moving my Bird of the Day. One of the dry season visitors to our finca here in Costa Rica are these White-crowned Parrots , usually a lowland tropics species, but visits us early in the year.
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