Fawn-Breasted Brilliant (Helidoxa rubinoides) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Fawn-Breasted Brilliant (Helidoxa rubinoides) | Flickr - Photo Sharing! This is just one of the birds we spotted on our ecotour led by San Jorge Lodges. See more on my Ecuador Birds set. We spent about 10 days with San Jorge Lodges and by the end of our trip had spotted over 100 birds, some in the Galapagos Islands.

Boston Common -- the gardens here are a mix of ponds, playing fields, open spaces, statues, and mixed flowers, some annuals and some perennials like these roses still in bloom in autumn. The lamp posts show its well lighted after dusk but provide a focal point for viewing the garden design. Red is a good contrast to green. The rounded shrubs help break up the vertical lines of the weeping willow and lamps. A fun place to visit.

What to See on the Road from Oslo, Norway to Karlstadt, Sweden

What to See on the Road from Oslo, Norway to Karlstadt, Sweden

Some of the smaller, out of the way exploration we did while traveling by car in Scandinavia turned out to be the most fun and entirely unplanned. Karlstadt was our favorite town to visit, although Oslo in the springtime feels wild.

Fun Picture from Lake Ashby

Swampy area on the trail at Lake Ashby, near New Smyrna Beach, Florida offers agood mix of plant life and food for birds. Florida ecology is different from my native WA environment. The level plain, sandy soil, palmetto, pine and oak forest, swampy lands requires a more intimate look to find differences and the unusual. Many seeding plants are wonderful to see in the Fall and Winter.

Best Fish Farm Photographs from Around the World - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

Best Fish Farm Photographs from Around the World - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

Fish farming comes in a variety of styles, see how they do it in China, Washington State, Ireland and Portugal. The pictures show a variety of farm styles.

On our recent visit to St. John, New Brunswick, we found lovely gardens, a beach front walk, and another new style of fish farming when we took a whale watching trip. Try looking around for the nets.

Fifty Years of Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Research Aids Tanzania

Jane Goodall and researchers with the Jane Goodall Institute have studied chimpanzees at Gombe National Park Tanzania for fifty years, here's what they learned and hope to learn and hope to help.



Read More about the struggle to save chimpanzee habitat.