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Trying to group birds by size is not real accurate, but now it leaves me with 4 “smaller” birds for tomorrow and 4 others for the next day! 🙂 Then I will get on to other wildlife and the many butterflies photographed at Arenal Observatory!
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| Black Guan Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Adult Gray Hawk Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me in Costa Rica (1 in Nicaragua) |
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| Juvenile Gray Hawk Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Female Collared Trogon Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Male Collared Trogon Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Chestnut-headed Oropendola in Poro Tree Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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Slaty Spinetail
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| Red-faced Spinetail Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Common Chlorospingus Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me |
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| Clay-colored Thrush or Yiqüirro The National Bird of Costa Rica Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Northern Rough-winged Swallow Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica First Sighting for Me (only Southern in the past) |
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| Dusky-capped Flycatcher Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Brown Jay Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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Passerini Tanagers, Male & 2 Females
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“The sharp thrill of seeing them reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it’s like to live in this moment, right now.”
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| Sleeping Brown Jay Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Sleeping Orange-bellied Trogon Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Sleeping Keel-billed Toucan Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Sleeping Skipper Butterfly Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| A Strange Cloud Forest Fruit Eaten Only by Bats Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| It Was Dark! Night Hike! Monteverde, Costa Rica |
We saw many other creatures that I could not get usable photos of, like a Margay cat, two snakes, army ants, leaf-cutter ants, other insects, and some other birds including a spectacled owl.
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| Brown Jay Curi-Cancha Reserva, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Elegant Euphonia Male Curi-Cancha Reserva, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Elegant Euphonia Female Curi-Cancha Reserva, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
Got home this afternoon and been busy! So only these 3 birds tonight. But I will be adding more over the next week as I find time to go through the hundreds of photos. It was a great trip even with me missing the Sunday morning hike because I did not want to get home late. It is a hard 4.5 hour drive with about 40 km of gravel road that’s a killer for me! And Sunday afternoon traffic into Central Valley is extremely heavy with people returning from the beaches. Next time I go to Monteverde, I will go by bus even if it does take longer. And I will save money!
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| Green Thorntail Hummingbird Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-bellied Elaenia Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica |
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| Black-cheeked Woodpecker Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica 3rd species of woodpeckers at this one place. Lots of bugs to eat! 🙂 |
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| Brown Jay Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-crowned Euphonia Female or Yellow Warbler Female Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica |
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| Gray-headed Chachalaca Better shot than one posted the first day. |
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| Green Thorntail Hummingbird Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica Different day, different bird and look than top of this post |
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| Black-headed Saltator Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica |
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| Black-headed Saltator Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica A totally different look than the photo before this, but same bird! |
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| Social Flycatcher Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica |
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| Bumble Bee (I think – no ID source) Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica |
If interested, I reviewed both Rancho Naturalista and CATIE on TripAdvisor with a few of the photos, though they are “pending” as I write this, possibly for screening of some kind.
I heard the sweet voice of a robin, High up in the maple tree, Joyously, singing his happy song To his feathered mate, in glee!…
If we could be like this tiny bird, Just living from day to day, Holding no bitterness in our hearts For those we meet on our way…
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Heaven on Earth” (1940s)