I took a couple of photos of Jody's cabin on the way to meet for our pre-breakfast bird walk.

Jody's cabin looked like a hobbit house.

We walked the entrance road to the lodge and found this Bare-throated Tiger-Heron in the trees.

The just-rising sun gave the Bare-throated Tiger-Heron a goldent hue.

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, in the morning sunlight along the entrance road to Danta Corcovado Lodge, Peninsula de Osa, Costa Rica

The Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, showing us its bare throat

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, showing its thick neck

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
OK, only 2 more--for this sighting

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Local junglefowl and two Gray-cowled Wood-Rails, at a farm house along the road

This Yellow-throated Vireo caught a big insect.

The Yellow-throated Vireo alternated between holding the insect under its foot and in its bill.

Yellow-throated Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo, with insect

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Streaked Flycatcher

Streaked Flycatcher

Buff-throated Saltator

Stripe-throated Hermit

Stripe-throated Hermit

Rear view of the Streaked Flycatcher

Streaked Flycatcher

Streaked Flycatcher

Another front view of the Streaked Flycatcher

A dog and her pup, in the yard of the farm house along the entrance road

Another shot of the Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, when it came out into the bright sunlight

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Some of the 45 Crimson-fronted Parakeets that flew over us

Crimson-fronted Parakeets

A closer shot of the Crimson-fronted Parakeets

Anybody have a guess what this fuzzy, poorly-lit bird is?

This Broad-winged Hawk perched in the trees 30-40 feet into the forest beside the road.

Broad-winged Hawk, front view of head

Broad-winged Hawk, left side of head

Broad-winged Hawk, right profile

Dusky-capped Flycatcher again

Male Blue-black Grosbeak

Female Blue-black Grosbeak

Female Blue-black Grosbeak

?

We don't have them on our eBird list for this morning, but these look like Mealy Parrots--no red on the forehead like the Red-lored Parrot.

Mealy Parrots, in flight

Orange-chinned Parakeets?

Piratic Flycatcher

When we walked back down the entrance road to where it runs into a creek, we saw these Fiery-billed Aracaris overhead.

Fiery-billed Aracari
Photo digiscoped by Chito Motina, using his Leica spotting scope and my Pixel phone camera

Fiery-billed Aracari
Photo digiscoped by Chito Motina, using his Leica spotting scope and my Pixel phone camera

Fiery-billed Aracari
Photo digiscoped by Chito Motina, using his Leica spotting scope and my Pixel phone camera

Fiery-billed Aracari
Photo digiscoped by Chito Motina, using his Leica spotting scope and my Pixel phone camera

Fiery-billed Aracari
Photo digiscoped by Chito Motina, using his Leica spotting scope and my Pixel phone camera

Fiery-billed Aracari
Photo digiscoped by Chito Motina, using his Leica spotting scope and my Pixel phone camera

Fiery-billed Aracari

Fiery-billed Aracari

Fiery-billed Aracari

Fiery-billed Aracari

Fiery-billed Aracaris

Zebrawing butterfly

Butterfly, on a flower near the dining pavilion at breakfast

Going back to our cabin after breakfast, an anole had taken up a position on the steps to our porch, hopping from there to the fake stump around the outdoor faucet.

The anole gave us a look at its dewlap.

On the after-breakfast bird walk, we saw this Chestnut-backed Antbird.

Chestnut-backed Antbird

Chestnut-backed Antbird, looking at something on the ground below

Chestnut-backed Antbird

Mary spotted this pretty butterfly that was black with blue spots on the tops of its wings...

... and had some red spots underneath.

Mary also liked this Split-leaf Philodendron.

Some of the group had skipped the early morning walk, but Chito went to find the Bare-throated Tiger-Heron again to show them, and found it sitting on a nest.

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, on a nest

Out on the trail: Jody and Fran (behind Derek), Derek, Chito, Tom (behind Chito), Deb and Leigh

Chito (showing off his gaiters) referred to the bird guide with Ann and Monica, while Tom, Deb and Leigh checked another field guide. What bird were they looking at? Derek, Fran and Jody (in the back)

Mary, Ann, Monica, Derek, Fran, Leigh, Chito (behind), Jody, Tom, Deb

Ann was always in style with her 'bird' socks.

Fran found a leaf with strange protrusions, like little sub-leaves.

Close-up of the leaf's leaves

Here are some on a dried leaf.

The back side of the leaf

Another view of the back side of the leaf. I don't recall whether any consensus was reached about whether these were some sort of insect galls or natural leaf formation.

Female Slaty-tailed Trogon

Female Slaty-tailed Trogon

Back of the female Slaty-tailed Trogon

Female Slaty-tailed Trogon

We got a brief look at the back side of a male Slaty-tailed Trogon.

Male Slaty-tailed Trogon

Female Blue-throated Goldentail

Blue-throated Goldentail

After our second walk, we went back to our cabins to get our bags packed to go, so we took a few last photos of where we stayed.

Mary, on the porch of our cabin before we packed up to leave Danta Corcovado Lodge

Dense forest next to our cabin

The passive solar water heater behind our cabin

Carved chairs on our porch

Carved chairs and small table

Mangos growing behind our cabin

Unripe and ripe mangos

We saw another Chestnut-backed Antbird.

Chestnut-backed Antbird

Jody's hobbit house again, including his covered porch

The carved furniture under Jody's covered porch

The lodge had an 'information center' with information tacked on the wall and a concrete statue of its mascot, the tapir, out front.

Maps and charts at the information center at Danta Corcovado Lodge

I'm not sure what I'd said, but Mary had "that look." Maybe I was just interrupting her enjoyment of her last beer before our last meal at the lodge.

Mary, with her voice recorder; Ann, Carolyn and Monica sitting in the far left corner; Jody and Deb, talking at the bar; and Tom and Fran, at another table; all waiting our last lunch at Danta Corcovado Lodge.

The first course looked beautiful, as always.

While we were eating, this Long-billed Hermit lit among the palms at the edge of the dining area and posed while some of us took many photos.

Long-billed Hermit, at the dining pavilion at Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Long-billed Hermit

Long-billed Hermit

Long-billed Hermit

After lunch, we took vans over to the airport at Puerto Jiménez, where everyone took a break in the small waiting room: Leigh, Derek, Fran, Jody

Monica, Chito and Tom, waiting for our plane to San José

Monica, Ann and Carolyn, at the Puerto Jiménez airport

Ann, Carolyn, Deb, Leigh, Derek

This little girl and her dad were waiting for the same plane.

This was a turbo-prop plane and a little bigger than the one we flew down in, so there were several more passengers than just our group: Derek and Deb (on the left), Fran and Tom (four rows up), then Leigh, Chito and Jody.

Mary, Monica, Carolyn and I were in the back.

Both pilots had their arms hanging out their windows at one time as we taxied down the runway, but did pull them in and close the windows before take-off.

The view of the coast as we turned to head to San José

The wingtip and coast below

There was a little turbulence as we got into the clouds, but smoother than the trip down.

Peninsula de Osa in the rearview mirror

The clouds were casting shadows on the water.

This sculpture graced the entrance of the San José International Airport when we landed.

Mary was taken with the vertical plantings on the outside wall of the airport.

Waiting for our vans to the hotel: Jody, Derek, Leigh, Chito and Carolyn (in back) and Tom, Ann, Mary, Fran, Deb, Monica (in front)

Mary and her wall of plants

A close-up of some of the plants

An old, single-engine plane was on display across the driveway.

When we got to our hotel, the Buena Vista in Alajuela again, Mary took a photo of this artwork on the hallway wall.

After finding our rooms, we took a walk outside and found this covered 'garden' along the trail--it might have held herbs used by the hotel cooks.

From the backyard of the hotel, we could see White-crowned Parrots on a distant tree down the hill.

White-crowned Parrots

Several White-crowned Parrots were in this tree and we could see their white foreheads when they turned to the sun.

Pale pink flowers on a tree below the hotel yard

The building clouds reflected the evening sun.

Clouds over San José, Costa Rica

San José, in the central valley of Costa Rica

We went over our birding checklist for the last time in the lobby of the hotel before dinner: Ann, Carolyn, Deb.

Mary, Ann and Carolyn, at our checklist review at Hotel Buena Vista, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Deb, Leigh, Chito, Jody

Fran, Tom, Derek

Enrique had brought our luggage by bus from Puerto Jiménez and joined us as we went over our checklist.

Mary, Ann, Carolyn, Deb

Deb, Leigh, Enrique, Chito, Jody

Leigh, Enrique, Chito, Fran, Tom

We took photos of our whole group after dinner, but it required two or three tries to get us all in the picture at once.

Another photo of our group after dinner, our last evening in Costa Rica.