Talented Friend Watch #19 : Clemira and Vitor of the Serra Bonita nature reserve (where this photo was taken), will be participating in, and getting an award from, the National Geographic Fourth Annual Symposium this year.

Humming Birds
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Big spider
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There's a very big spider that lives under the house where the owners and the building workers are living (Serra Bonita is under construction).

Everyone calls her Rosa.

This isn't Rosa, but one of her (slightly) smaller sisters. (About 7 or 8 inches in diameter.)

Humming Birds
Originally uploaded by interstar.

Every afternoon, the humming birds come to be fed. They've got so tame that they'll land on your hand. This, however, is definitely the most dramatic photo I got.

See that grey in the background? This is cloud forest and the clouds roll right up the valley and engulf the research centre.

Moonrise 2
Originally uploaded by interstar.

Just got back from the Serra Bonita eco-reserve - a mountain in the Atlantic Forest, southern Bahia.

Beautiful place, and an ambitious project created by a very impressive couple in their sixties. I want to say a lot about this, but no time now. More pics soon.