Mindo Area, Ecuador Photo Gallery by John Dicus at pbase.com

Mindo Area, Ecuador

After a quick night in Quito on our arrival in Ecuador, the next morning we hopped a bus to Mindo where our real adventure began. This gallery contains images we snapped off during our time in the Mindo area.

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Rufous Motmot	Rufous Motmot 2	Rufous Motmot 3	Rufous-tailed Hummingbird	Shrimp Plant
Butterfly 6	Butterfly 7	Butterfly 8	Butterfly Chrysalis	Caterpillars
Clearwing	Clearwing 2	Clearwing 3	Colorful Bug	Colorful Bugs
Daggerwing	Damselfly	Forest Hymenoptera	Skipper	Skipper 2
Ruby-eye Species	Skipper 4	Thick-billed Euphonia Female	Tiger Beetle	White Orchid
White-lined Tanager Female	Iridaceae?	Iridaceae - Tigridia species?

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gardener		18-Dec-2007 17:45
Wonderful pictures, thanks for posting. The 300mm is really impressive, with the TCll, I assume, since you reach 600mm. I wonder how the exif interprets the TC, mine does not. (I have the old 300mm (non S).

Guest		18-Dec-2007 17:35
Great gallery John

an nguyen		18-Dec-2007 01:43
Superb shots . V

John Dicus		15-Dec-2007 19:49
Thanks Steve. A lot of these were taken just about as close as the lens would focus. In some of the situations I couldn't shoot because the bird came too close to me and the lens wouldn't focus that close, and I couldn't back up. Of course, there was always that far away raptor or treetop-perching toucan that begged for more lens, but 300mm in the forest was often enough and I shot most of the time without the 1.4 or 2x teleconverters I brought along.

Steve Morris		15-Dec-2007 18:09
John the Andean Emerald shots are superb - you must have been quite close with that 300mm lens. Vote!

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