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Voting record - Steven Baker, former MP, Wycombe See how Steven Baker voted on topics like Employment, Social Issues, Foreign Policy, and more.

They get a couple of months funding to wrap up their office, then they've got their savings and then there's universal credit/job seekers allowance. Was good enough for everyone else. Shame he voted consistently to make it worse.

www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24786/ste...

This year it's the bank holiday AND the weekend our cricket season starts. Ergo, wet.

Also, the weekend after the cricket season ends (first weekend of October, generally) is always nice.

No scientific data though 😆

Very large brown raptor with a white underside and head and hooked bill, perched on a dead tree

An osprey on migration. They don't breed in Costa Rica, though youngsters might live there for a while. Just one of the many birds seen on the first day!

#bird 🪶 #costarica #osprey #birdofprey

Large woodpecker with a black spotted back, white freckly belly and red crown sat on a large dark tree stump in a forest

One morning while we were at Arenal in the centre of Costa Rica, we booked a dawn birdwatching tour and spotted 42 species in a couple of hours.

Sat for breakfast, reviewing what we had seen, this black-cheeked woodpecker came and sat on this log

#bird 🪶 #woodpecker #costarica

Travelling on a boat through a mangrove swamp in Costa Rica, there was this lovely long curved branch hanging over the water with about 20 whimbrels on it. These are wading birds, related to sandpipers

#bird 🪶 #whimbrel #costarica #wildlife

A bird sitting on a branch. The bird has a brown head with a black eye stripe and a green body leading down to a long blue tail, with two ornate feathers that look like badminton racquets

The broad-billed motmot. Apparently fairly common in the centre of Costa Rica, and we did see a few in both Arenal and Monteverde.

#bird #nature #costarica 🪶

Baby turtle making their way down a sandy beach, one flipper in the air

Baby turtle reaching the sea with a wave coming in

Along the beach in Tortuguero, this little turtle hatchling was stuck under some leaves near the back of the beach and unable to get out! Once uncovered, she started her journey to the sea, accompanied by us so that the birds circling above couldn't get to her.
#nature #wildlife #turtle #costarica

Two large gangly herons, the male stretching up his throat to impress. Grey head, yellow throat, striped feathers

A pair of bare-throated tiger herons. I spent about an hour watching the male displaying and preening and puffing himself up, trying to impress her.

She flew away.

Incredibly, we saw 7 species of heron and 3 types of egret while we were in Costa Rica.

#bird #nature 🪶

Costa Rica has four species of monkey: howler, spider, white-faced and squirrel, and we were lucky enough on our travels to see all four.

In three of the four hotels we stayed in, we had the pleasure of being woken up by these guys, howler monkeys.

#monkey #nature #mammals

Thank you!

One of the animals I wanted to see in Costa Rica was a sloth!

I was lucky to see this awake one, seeing as they sleep about 16 hours a day. We saw this two-toed sloth on our first day!

Most sloths we saw after this were high up in trees curled in a ball.

#mammals #sloth #photo #costarica #nature

#Addmam, please!

Thank you 😊

Thank you!

A toucan with a mostly green bill with red accents, a yellow chest and a black body, perched in a tree.

I'm just back from two weeks in Costa Rica and wow! What a country!

161 species of bird in 2 weeks!

This is a keel-billed toucan who was hanging out near our hotel in Tortuguero on the Caribbean coast.

#bird #costarica #toucan

Can I be added, please?

Yellow-headed caracara that landed just in front of me on a recent trip to Costa Rica