All photographed in the
San Gerardo de Dota, along the road or at
Mariam’s Quetzals Cabins in the steep mountain canyon along the Savegre River,
Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica, at an altitude of 2200 meters above sea level (72,178 feet). It was cold in the nights and early mornings!
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Acorn Woodpecker (1st sighting for me)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Sooty Thrush (1st sighting for me)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Flame-colored Tanager Male (1st sighting for me)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Flame-colored Tanager Female (1st sighting for me)
Immature Rufous-collared Sparrow below her
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Emerald Toucanet (1st sighting in wild for me)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica
(Fruits are wild avocados, favorite food of Quetzals) |
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Black-capped Flycatcher (1st sighting for me)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Black-billed Nightingale Thrush (1st sighting for me)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Possibly a White-throated Thrush or Nightingale (?)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Flame-throated Finch (1st sighting for me)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Resplendent Quetzal Female
No males seen even though they were the reason we went to this place.
I had better luck on my two other trips here. See my Quetzal Gallery.
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Violet-headed or Magnificent Hummingbird
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Magnificent Female or Green Hermit Hummingbird
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
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Fiery-throated, Magnificent or Violet-headed Hummingbird (?)
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica |
Tomorrow I go to the Pacific coast and the port city of Puntarenas with the Atenas Community Band to a band festival and parade with bands from all over the country. The public high school near me, Colegio Liceo, is also going from Atenas. It will be an interesting one-day bus trip to the hot coast with a bunch of noisy kids. Then Thursday I go to the Nicaragua border again to renew my visa. So it may be a couple of more days without a post. We’ll see! 🙂 Then October 8 I go back to to the Caribbean Coast to explore some more and birding with the club at
Manzanillo.
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