Thursday, May 26
Hotel La Rosa

We spent Wednesday night at the Hotel La Rosa de America and got up before breakfast Thursday morning and started birding. Mary liked these two Rufous-naped Wrens; one seems to be nuzzling--or at least preening--the other.

Rufous-naped Wren

Rufous-naped Wren

This Rufous-naped Wren caught a big moth.

Boat-billed Flycatcher

Great Kiskadee

A pair of Hoffman's Woodpeckers
rearranging feathers post-coitus

Tropical Kingbird

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Orange-chinned Parakeet eating fruit of the Cecropia tree

Adult Clay-colored Thrush, the Costa Rica national bird,
feeding young in a nest under the eave of the hotel

After breakfast on the patio,
a Rufous-naped Wren helped bus the tables.

La Paz Waterfall

Black Phoebe

Sooty-faced Finch

Torrent Tyrannulet

Torrent Tyrannulet

Galeria de Colibries

Gallery of Hummingbirds
In this gallery, the colors fly.

Steve compares himself to a Gunnera leaf.
We saw many even bigger.

Mary enjoys the plants, butterflies and birds in the gallery garden.

Some of our group focusing on some of the many birds:
Dru, Deb, Kim, Wendy, Kannan, Jane, Esteban, Karen and Bob

Jane, Kannan, Steve, Bob, Mia, Karen and Zoe

Male Purple-throated Mountain Gem hummingbird
Gallery of Hummingbirds, Poasita, Costa Rica

Male Purple-throated Mountain Gem

Male Purple-throated Mountain Gem

Purple-throated Mountain Gem again...

Female Purple-throated Mountain Gem

Male Slaty Flowerpiercer

Male Violet Sabrewing

Female Violet Sabrewing

Male Magnificent Hummingbird

Female Magnificent Hummingbird

Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher
very far away

Male Lesser Violetear

National Bird of Costa Rica:
Clay-colored Thrush

Mountain Elaenia?

Mountain Elaenia

Female Scintillant Hummingbird
called 'bumblebee' or 'sparkle' by the locals

Lesser Violetear

Female Scintillant Hummingbird

Mirador de Cascada

La Paz Waterfall through the mist

La Paz Waterfall
as seen from Mirador de Cascada (Waterfall Lookout/Overlook)

Green Thorntail

Green Thorntail

Green Thorntail

Green Thorntail

Female Coppery-headed Emerald?

Female Coppery-headed Emerald

Male Coppery-headed Emerald? maybe young?

Coppery-headed Emerald

Female White-necked Jacobin

Juvenile Green-crowned Brilliant?
or Coppery-headed Emerald?

Adult Green-crowned Brilliant

Female Passerini's Tanager

Bananaquit

Female Green-crowned Brilliant?

Male Violet Sabrewing

Female Purple-throated Mountain Gem

?

Female Passerini's Tanager

Deborah getting back onto our bus
at the Mirador de Cascada shop and waterfall overlook

Ara Ambigua Lodge

Great Kiskadee showing its crown patch of color

Scaly-breasted Hummingbird

Scaly-breasted Hummingbird

Young Ruddy Ground-Doves?

Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
perhaps a young one begging?

Scaly-breasted Hummingbird

Young Ruddy Ground-Doves?

Female Passerini's Tanager with fruit

House Wren

House Wren
complaining about our presence

Black-cheeked Woodpecker

Black-cheeked Woodpecker
one of two we saw together

La Selva Biological Station

Male Passerini's Tanager

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

White-tipped Dove

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Female Great Curassows

Female Great Curassow

Great Curassow

Female Great Curassow

Female Great Curassow

Collared Aracari

Keel-billed Toucans

Keel-billed Toucan

Collared Aracari
silhouetted in the late evening sky

Long-tailed Tyrant

Yellow-throated Toucan

Collared Aracaris

Yellow-throated Toucan

Crested Guan silhouetted against the evening sky

Great Tinamou
roosting over the path
on our evening walk

Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
roosting near the path on our night walk