Bat Falcon, on our way to Rio Silanche Reserve

When you leave your hotel at 5AM and sun-up isn't until 6:23AM (and you don't use a flash), these are the kinds of photos you get.

A pair of Guayaquil Woodpeckers

Yellow-throated Toucan

Black-cheeked Woodpecker

Plumbeous Kite
Seems to be picking at the lichens on the branch where he is perched

Purple-chested Hummingbird
At Rio Silanche Reserve

Female Purple Honeycreeper

In this photo, you can see a little better the yellow throat, orange and the head, and stripes on the underside.

Purple Honeycreeper female
This fruiting tree was very attractive to many of the birds we saw from the observation tower.

Male Blue-tailed Trogon
With a very large insect

Purple-crowned Fairy hummingbird

Female Black-faced Dacnis

Purple-chested Hummingbird

Female Black-faced Dacnis

Male White-lined Tanager

Female Guira Tanager

Streaked Flycatcher

Female Red-headed Barbet

Female Green Honeycreeper

Rusty-margined Flycatcher

Cinnamon Woodpecker

Orange-fronted Barbet

Male Summer Tanager

Female Masked Tityra

Male Tawny-crested Tanager

Tail view of Chocó Tyrannulet

Chocó Tyrannulet

Orange-bellied Euphonia

Rufous-winged Tanager

Purple-throated Fruitcrow

Black-striped Woodcreeper
With an insect

Sooty-headed Tyrannulet

Scarlet-browed Tanager

Scarlet-rumped Cacique

Unidentified Bird
Any ideas?

Purple-throated Fruitcrow

Purple-throated Fruitcrow

Male Scarlet-breasted Dacnis

Male Blue-tailed Trogon

Male White-tailed Trogon

White-necked Jacobin
At feeders at entrance to Rio Silanche Reserve

White-wiskered Hermit, with a Green Thorntail

Female Green Thorntail

White-necked Jacobin

Crowned Woodnymph

Crowned Woodnymph and White-whiskered Hermit

Crowned Woodnymph

Purple-chested Hummingbird
Per Andres, the white vent distinguishes the PCHU

White-whiskered Hermit

Female Crowned Woodnymph

Male Crowned Woodnymph

White-whiskered Hermit

Female White-necked Jacobin

Male Green Thorntail

Purple-chested Hummingbird

White-whiskered Hermit
Young or female?

Stripe-throated Hermit

Crowned Woodnymph

Roadside Hawk
As we were leaving Rio Silanche Reserve

Golden-olive Woodpecker

Dull-colored Grassquit

Smooth-billed Ani

Pacific Hornero

Black-cheeked Woodpecker

Saffron Finch

Masked Water-Tyrant

Gray-breasted Martins

Ecuadorian Thrush
We returned to Sachatamia Rainforest Reserve Lodge; it was drizzling, but not dark, and there were two covered bird-watching areas, so we watched birds coming to feeders at each location. This was an open area with bananas mounted on branches.

Blue-winged Mountain Tanager
Eating a piece of wet banana

Rufous-collared Sparrow
We saw them everywhere and our guide Andres called them 'rufies.'

Male Red-headed Barbet

Blue-gray Tanager

Scrub Blackbird

Golden Tanager

Golden-naped Tanager

Female Orange-bellied Euphonia

Silver-throated Tanager

Dusky Chlorospingus

Female Violet-tailed Sylph
Looks very different from the male

Female Orange-bellied Euphonia

Golden-naped Tanager

Golden Tanager

Male Orange-bellied Euphonia

Silver-throated Tanager

Ecuadorian Thrush

Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

Female Red-headed Barbet

Scrub Blackbird

Male Violet-tailed Sylph

Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

Palm Tanager
on a palm branch

Male Orange-bellied Euphonia

Collared Aracari

Golden-naped Tanager

Dusky Chlorospingus

Brown Violetear
After see all there was to see in the open area, I moved to the hummingbird feeders to watch them for a while.

Andean Emerald

Violet-tailed Sylph

Male White-booted Racket-tail

Purple-throated Woodstar (back L), Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (front L), Brown Violetear (R)

Purple-throated Woodstar (L), Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (R)

Purple-throated Woodstar

Brown Violetear

Male Violet-tailed Sylph

Green-crowned Brilliant (L), female White-booted Racket-tail (R)

Female Purple-bibbed Whitetip (L), female White-booted Racket-tail (R)

Female Purple-bibbed Whitetip

Female White-booted Racket-tail

Andean Emerald

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Female Violet-tailed Sylph

Purple-throated Woodstar
He had a favorite perch to which he repeatedly returned, just outside the covered feeder area.

Bananaquit

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (L), Velvet-purple Coronet (C), Brown Violetear (R)

Violet-purple Coronet

Brown Inca

Violet-tailed Sylph (L), two White-booted Racket-tails (C), female Purple-bibbed Whitetip (R)

Violet-purple Coronet

Violet-purple Coronet (L), Purple-bibbed Whitetip (R)

Fawn-breasted Brilliant (L), Purple-bibbed Whitetip (R)

Purple-throated Woodstar
At his favorite spot again

White-booted Racket-tail (L) and Fawn-breasted Brilliant (R)

Male White-booted Racket-tail

Young male Violet-tailed Sylph

Violet-tailed Sylph (L), Brown Violetear (R)

Crowned Woodnymph

Violet-tailed Sylph

Male Thick-billed Euphonia
Back at the open area banana feeders

Male Flame-rumped Tanager

Golden Tanager

Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

Ecuadorian Thrush

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Collared Aracari

Collared Aracari

Golden-naped Tanager (L), Silver-throated Tanager (R)

Collared Aracari